[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by Phunkenstein

Even if the PL decided to eat all the costs of creating and retailing a D2C proposition without any partners handling the marketing or distribution of the product, do you think a ‘GamePass’ style product would be a dramatically different experience, especially in the home market and likely on the proviso of providing tv revenue to teams comparative with what they have been getting for the last few years? Let’s be honest, a D2C platform in the U.K. for the PL would have to be pretty damn expensive…

I do think some people out there see prices of some of these D2C products and don’t entirely appreciate these products are generally so cheap because it’s not the home market in play especially when you look at domestic costs for rights like the NFL…

Not saying a D2C proposition is impossible but I think folk would need to keep expectations in check about how cost friendly something like that would actually end up being! And probably why retailing the tv rights at a premium to content hungry providers remains the best model for the immediate future!

Others seem to think it’s achievable.
https://talksport.com/football/11315...-mls-apple-tv/