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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
If I was the NHL I would absolutely be negotiating in some revised quality “minimums” that Sportsnet would have to commit to reach. I guarantee they’re losing a tiny bit of revenue from SN’s F- quality.
Also wonder why or why not a company like Netflix doesn’t bid. There’s an auto 40 million person country locking in subscription to you for 11 yrs and you could justify increasing monthly fees for sure.
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I think Netflix is just stepping their toe into that space and might not actually have the infrastructure to support the production and broadcasting of that many Hockey games.
They've successfully been able to do one off football or hockey games.
And have recently launched wrestling (2 shows per week, and WWE largely had a lot of their own production crew already).
But to launch something on this scale, with the volume of games per week, and your own production teams, and to only have that available in Canada...probably not worth it at all to Netflix.
And if you do the quick math - 5,000,000 incremental subscribers per month, at $20 per month every month for 12 years is still only $14B of revenue before you factor in all the costs (production, crews, network). Really I'd guess is Netflix doesn't actually think it will be super profitable.