Netflix is design to joinAppleand Amazon on thelive streaming athletics bandwagonaccording to a new report from the Wall Street Journal .
However , the cyclosis pioneer is n’t plan to bid for the rights to top events like Premier League football , Major League Baseball or Major League Soccer , as Amazon and Apple have acquired severally .
The WSJreportsaidNetflixplans to host the tourney in Las Vegas this fall , bringing together the stars from the Formula 1 : Drive to Survive and Full Swing reality serial .
Wow . The least magnetic sports multitude in the history of the entire world taking part in a golf game tourney . Pass . Hard strait .
This would be right-hand in line with what we ’ve come to wait from Netflix ’s saucy programming line - up , which has started to pitch towards world TV , rather than in high spirits - profile prestigiousness drama .
While that might be enticing to fans of those existing reality TV shows , it ’s improbable to make headlines in the sporting populace . Judging by the report , it ’d be a one - time limited result and is improbable to have much appeal beyond the gimmicky celebrity Pro - Am novelty tourney we see all the time .
However , it ’s very Netflix . This would n’t require a foresighted commitment over a number of years – like Apple ’s ten - yr musical arrangement with Major League Soccer – and it would n’t ‘ t ask one C of millions in investiture like Amazon ’s peck with the EPL .
Indeed , it feel just as disposable as much of the Netflix output these Clarence Day , which has made it hard to fully invest in shows due to the mickle of cancellation that often come out of the blue , regardless of a show ’s large following .
Netflix has start out to explore live streamed events and its first ever was astand - up drollery result starring Chris Rockthat aired earlier this class , but sports would be a step farther and present different product challenges .
“ I ’m not say we never would do sports , but we would have to see a path to growing a big receipts stream and a big gain flow with it , ” Netflix co - CEO Ted Sarandos say last class .
