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Sarandos predicts sports leagues like the NFL will go direct-to-consumer

Ted Sarandos · a16z Podcast | The Internet of Taste, Streaming Content to Culture · Jan 2, 2019 · at 30:03

Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer at Netflix, explains why Netflix avoids bidding on live sports rights during a conversation with Mark Andreessen.

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“I think the winner will be NFL.com. That they'll just go direct to consumer, and there's plenty of people who pay an outrageous amount of money for a subscription for NFL, or NBA, or MLB, and ultimately the winners will be the league anyway, so.”

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