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BCE.TO in “Live Sports Becomes Streaming's Last Moat”

BCE Inc.

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Sports rights help defend television audiences but add costs to a telecom group already facing pressure on legacy media economics.

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Live Sports Becomes Streaming's Last Moat

Scarce games, races and fights are becoming the most valuable anchors in an unbundled media market.

BEAR side — Sports rights help defend television audiences but add costs to a telecom group already facing pressure on legacy media economics.

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Bull side

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2 stories
  • BCE.TO in “Live Sports Becomes Streaming's Last Moat”

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    Scarce games, races and fights are becoming the most valuable anchors in an unbundled media market.

    Sports rights help defend television audiences but add costs to a telecom group already facing pressure on legacy media economics.

  • Streaming Learns to Make Money

    BCE.TO in “Streaming Learns to Make Money”

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    Password enforcement, ad tiers and tighter content budgets are converting streaming scale into cash flow while linear television keeps shrinking.

    BCE faces cord-cutting in its television distribution business and declining linear audiences across Bell Media's conventional and specialty channels.