E132: The Bundle #9

Today’s podcast is episode 9 of The Bundle, our regular series of conversations about sports media and the streaming market with co-host Yannick Ramcke.We start in France by picking apart the ongoing saga in the country’s top football league following Mediapro’s premature exit from its huge domestic rights agreement, which leaves a trail of uncertainty among clubs, players and fans, with Canal Plus seemingly the only entity ready to pick up the pieces and at a fraction of the price promised by Mediapro.Secondly, another regular appearance on The Bundle for DAZN, this time using them as the way in to a conversation about how the new generation of streaming sports sites are pricing their products and repackaging their OTT content for linear channels.Then we look at the metrics around Amazon’s recent streaming of NFL games in the US, BeIN’s recent rights acquisitions and look ahead to the upcoming Serie A rights auction.As ever, if you like the podcasts, you’d really like the weekly Unofficial Partner newsletter, which covers many other sports business themes in more depth. You can sign up to that via UnofficialPartner.com where you can also delve in to the back catalogue of around 130 previous podcast conversations.Unofficial Partner is the leading podcast for the business of sport. A mix of entertaining and thought provoking conversations with a who's who of the global industry. To join our community of listeners, sign up to the weekly UP Newsletter and follow us on Twitter and TikTok at @UnofficialPartnerWe publish two podcasts each week, on Tuesday and Friday. These are deep conversations with smart people from inside and outside sport. Our entire back catalogue of 500 sports business conversations are available free of charge here. Each pod is available by searching for ‘Unofficial Partner’ on Apple, Spotify and every podcast app. If you’re interested in collaborating with Unofficial Partner to create one-off podcasts or series and live events, you can reach us via the website.