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NETFLIX THEN: "We won't do sports". NETFLIX TODAY: "We're doing sports!"

NETFLIX THEN: "We won't do sports". NETFLIX TODAY: "We're doing sports!"

Not only is Netflix doing sports, it is about to do games in a huge way

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Dan Barrett
Oct 17, 2023
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NETFLIX THEN: "We won't do sports". NETFLIX TODAY: "We're doing sports!"
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For years Netflix said it wasn’t going to do sports. What the company meant by that was that they aren’t interested in getting into the hugely expensive rights deals that go into broadcasting regular sporting leagues. And that makes sense to me - sports have limited appeal outside of individual territories, so it leaves a global streamer needing to nego…

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