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Wanda Sports Group’s financials highlight long-term impact of live hiatus

Alistair Taylor

3 Sep 2020

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covid

live sports

Wanda Sports Group’s (WSG) Q2 financials highlight a significant decline in revenues on account of “the broad effects of COVID-19 mitigation efforts”. WSG reported a second successive quarter of...

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Self-Isolation: DAZN Concedes to COVID-19

Alistair Taylor

6 Apr 2020

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all-encompassing offering

asset class

Sports streaming insurgent DAZN has announced last week it plans to inform rights holders of its intent to defer its payments of rights fees for any content not yet delivered (i.e. postponed / cancelled...

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Could a Recession Change the Tide for Sports Rights Allocation?

Alistair Taylor

24 Sep 2019

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all-encompassing offering

AppleTV+

Revenue remains rights holder’s priority qualifier for allocating rights. However, with an impending recession, we are likely nearing an inflection point whereby rights holders may start to look towards...

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