Who takes a ball on the TV stew cooked by Dazn
The idea of a Serie A stew (matches at different times) does not convince all the presidents of the League and the fans (who also deal with the double season ticket). Facts, numbers and controversies
With 16 votes in favor and 4 against (Crotone, Genoa, Sampdoria and Sassuolo), the Lega Serie A assembly, in March 2021, for a figure close to 840 million euros per season ( partly financed by Tim) , sold the television rights to Dazn for the three-year period 2021-2024.
That vote could completely change the ways and times of watching the matches starting from September: the League vote, scheduled for June 7, is the proposal to broadcast 10 games at 10 different times, divided between Saturday, Sunday and Monday. A Serie A stew that would favor Dazn, but that does not convince the fans (and not only). Let's go step by step.
THE STEAK SERIES
Let's start with what Lega Serie A is called to vote on. The proposal on the plate is to reserve a different slot for each game. The schedule would see four games played on Saturdays (at 2.30pm, 4.30pm, 6.30pm and 8.45pm), five on Sunday (at 12.30pm, 2.30pm, 4.30pm, 6.30pm and 8.45pm) and one on Monday, at 8.45pm.
HELP TO DAZN
If it is true that, in this way, football fans will be able to watch all the matches without having to choose between the matches proposed at the same times, it is also true that at the basis of a similar choice there would be, writes the Corriere.it , a hand tesa to Dazn, since different slots would lighten the traffic on the online platform, which during the past years has presented connection problems.
In the season just ended, the fans were unable to watch the Inter-Cagliari and Parma-Lazio matches live.
FERRERO: WE ARE NOT A DISCOUNT
The assembly will be divided on the vote. According to what leaked from the words of the president Massimo Ferrero, Sampdoria will vote against . "The stew? We are not a discount … I appeal to all Serie A presidents, this is unacceptable. Do they want to kill football? The reality is that they are trying to do single matches because Dazn can't broadcast three at a time, they want to give another hand to the Ott broadcaster ”.
“7 slot is the format with which we sold the rights. Now if you do 10, the pack is worth more obviously because you all have separate games. Why do we have to do it for free? Dazn's offer is 19.99 euros per month, we have come to offer the fan the games at an average cost of 24 euro cents each, are we going crazy? With Sky the average cost was 1 euro and it was already low. It is a proposal that must not pass tomorrow in the assembly. It's unacceptable, ”Ferrero added.
FANS IN REVOLT?
Even several fans do not like the idea of the Serie A stew, and on social networks they ask for a vote against, also angered by the fact of a double subscription (Dazn and Sky) which would lead to a higher monthly outlay and doubts about the quality of the broadcast.
DAZN: READY TO TRANSMIT AT THE SAME TIME
Meanwhile, Dazn tries to calm the minds, and at La Verità he said: “We are very ready to leave. And we will be, if and when necessary, also to broadcast the matches at the same time. We have made every technological effort to improve what we have done so far. After all, being a decision not yet taken by the League, we are already equipped even if the three games are kept at the same time ”.
THE WALK OF THE FACES OF DAZN
Pending the votes and (above all) the choice of the fans on season tickets, the waltz of the faces that will tell us about Serie A 2021-2022 has also started. Dazn, according to what Ansa writes , will greet Marco Foroni, now former editorial director of the platform, to welcome Massimo Corcione, for a long time first to Mediaset and then to Sky where he was director of Sky Sport.
The Ott platform should also welcome the journalist Marco Cattaneo and the former Milan and national team midfielder Massimo Ambrosini.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/chi-prende-a-pallonate-lo-spezzatino-tv-servito-da-dazn/ on Mon, 07 Jun 2021 09:12:22 +0000.