Netflix is rumoured to be make to infix the live sports program arena , though perhaps not in the means you might bear .
allot toThe Wall Street Journal , Netflix is run to put together a celebrity golf issue boast stars of its Full Swing and Drive to pull round program . And yes , only one of those show is actually about golf , with the latter being about Formula One motorsport .
Despite the glitzy , celebrity - driven nature of this Las Vegas - gear up tourney , it would still represent a first for Netflix . For all the streaming titan ’s many curriculum type , it has never before hazard into live sports broadcasts .
This is one of the key differentiator between Netflix and Amazon Prime Video , with the latter broadcasting specify Premier League football , NFC American football , US Open Tennis , and New York Yankees baseball game . Reports towards the end of 2022 paint a picture that Amazon was even looking tolaunch its owndedicated sport broadcasting app .
Netflix does n’t come along to be search to rival Amazon with this celebrity golf tourney , but it could well be a step along that path . It would be a relatively cheap and risk of exposure - detached way of trying its manus at sport broadcast medium .
It ’s exact that Netflix wanted to follow up the success of its parkway to hold out docuseries with Formula One coverage in the US , but lost out to ESPN for the broadcast medium rightfulness .
Besides the mutant content itself , Netflix is n’t particularly familiar with bouncy broadcast of any sort . In April it messed up a live programme of a erotic love Is Blind reality show reunion , with an hr - foresighted outage . gratuitous to say , such an outage would be disastrous for any major sporting effect .
Netflixco - CEO Ted Sarandos reference the company ’s cautious approach to sport back in January when he said “ We are n’t anti - fun , we ’re pro - profit ” . The society simply has n’t calculate out a way to bid for sporting subject matter in a profitable manner , he said .
