Unofficial Partner's regular series on the sports media and streaming marketplace. Host: Richard Gillis. Co-hosts:Murray Barnett, founder of 26 West Consulting (formerly F1, World Rugby, ESPN); Yannick Ramcke, general manager of OTT at OneFootball.
The rights ceiling: NFL and IPL as warning signs on rights inflation
Exclusivity in question: co-exclusivity, mixed packages and "intelligent auctions"
India: JioStar's monopoly, monetisability, and football's stalled growth
DAZN's EverPass deal and the pivot to sport's "operating system"
DAZN and the road to a 2027 IPO
BBC cuts: Ski Sunday, the Women's Football Show, and the death of the magazine show
What free-to-air and public-service broadcasting is for now
FIBA Women's World Cup on TNT: laddering rights across platforms
Fox and IndyCar: broadcaster enthusiasm as a value driver
Local vs global: why sport resists the Netflix model
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