This is the second episode of our series on the sports media market with regular co-host Yannick Ramcke. Every couple of weeks we choose three stories from around the world and pick them apart to see if there’s anything we can learn that’s part of a broader trend in relation to sport tv, streaming or OTT market.

This week we talk about beIN Sport’s stand against piracy in Serie A and what the implications of that might be for other rights holders in the broadcaster’s considerable rights portfolio.

Secondly we look at the details of the recent Bundesliga domestic rights tender, what it means for DAZN among others, and thirdly we talk about Mediapro in France, where they decided that when it comes to the number of teams they want in Ligue1 and how many games they want to screen, it’s a case of less is more. Plenty in here for anyone with an interest in the value of sport as a media property, which I guess means everyone.  

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