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Sep 17, 2026
Conor PhillipsHOST
True.
Conor PhillipsHOST
Is this the bloke who pops up in my feed? He works for Viaplay.
George HamiltonHOST
Yeah,
Conor PhillipsHOST
yeah.
Marion RanchetHOST
which is with this stuff, scale is gonna be where you make the savings, that's always been your thesis.
Marion RanchetHOST
So what you're saying is even if you run a VOYO in Central or Eastern Europe, or you're running Viaplay, or you're running whatever it is, centrally located bedrock of a tech stack is gonna get you the lowest possible fixed cost you can have.
Marion RanchetHOST
And you can chase zero, and you can chase this with technology coming in, but the greatest use of it is going to be the greatest value, right? Yeah, I agree.
Evan ShapiroHOST
Can I ask, it's funny how you are based in Europe, and we've looked at Europe, but is it a question that matters to us here in the region, but maybe not in the US? Because if it all comes down to scale, the reason this number is very important here is that that chase for scale is very hard.
Edd StrawHOST
I think if you have u- universal sprints and they're all sprints then yeah, you do it, but I, I just wonder if it's a slightly ...
Edd StrawHOST
It feels, it feels to me a little bit like a soft launch of a season, but I, I'm interested with what you think, Nelson, 'cause you'll be there commentating for Viaplay Netherlands.
Edd StrawHOST
Do you think that will take the edge off it or do you think it's a nice little aperitif to, to the main event that actually for the first race will work quite well?
Nelson ValkenburgGUEST
Um, ooh, I'm not opposed to it.
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Edd StrawHOST
And actually, the whole question of athletes at their best is such a, a, a challenging debate across the board, because in slightly different forms, you're seeing in, in tennis recently, cricket, footb- uh, or so many sports, there's kind of the added stuff going on that you're getting a lot of athletes sort of saying, "Well, you can't be at 100% or 99% because it's just this grinding treadmill," because everything wants to monetize it as much as possible, and obviously the, the participants are the ones who get, um, who get kind of- ... used the most because they are the, uh, they are the, the ultimate appeal.
Edd StrawHOST
So, yeah, that- that's a, that's another consideration.
Edd StrawHOST
And, of course, there would be those in F1 who would love to add more than 24 races as well, wouldn't they? I mean, that- that's, I'm sure, gonna be a discussion for the, uh, for the, for the future, and it'll keep coming round because the simple fact is the biggest, the quickest, the easiest way, other than charging, uh, people like Nelson more for the, uh, for the Viaplay, uh, uh, rights, which I'm sure you pay for personally-
Nelson ValkenburgGUEST
[laughs]
Kunal ShahHOST
Like literally, we've seen those onboards, as you remember, Samuel.
Kunal ShahHOST
And I even dissected this on the Viaplay studio.
Kunal ShahHOST
When he's taking the last corner, you're seeing the VSC panel on the left.
Kunal ShahHOST
The minute he turns in and he comes out, it's green.
Jan Åge FjørtoftHOST
The Swede love, loved to beat them.
Jan Åge FjørtoftHOST
But at, at Old Trafford we had a Viaplay Premier Sunday, and one of the interview I did just before the game, uh, was with Hafthor Julius Björnsson.
Jan Åge FjørtoftHOST
They say he is the strongest man ever lived.
Jan Åge FjørtoftHOST
Ever lived.
Dan SimpsonHOST
And as well, again, can you imagine for, who is it? Is it RTL still that do it? No, that's German.
Dan SimpsonHOST
Is it Viaplay? Yeah.
Dan SimpsonHOST
So can you imagine Viaplay signing MVG? And can you imagine what he can say, what he wants to say without the PDC finding him on Dutch TV?
Jarlath EatonHOST
That's all I'm going to say.
Jarlath EatonHOST
We see more than ever, and it's sometimes the frustration of people like us, because we see people who have toiled for years doing podcasts and streaming shows and everything else, and then all of a sudden, if you are a name and you fancy dabbling at a podcast, someone will come and throw a million pounds at it for you.
Dan SimpsonHOST
All of a sudden, he's their number one, number one co-commentator and he's absolutely raking it in.
Dan SimpsonHOST
Like I said, I'm not saying that MVG is going to get the similar money that Tom Brady is going to get.
Dan SimpsonHOST
But also, can you imagine that? You know, as well as that, again, Viaplay don't send everybody over to cover it.
JJ DevaneyHOST
That kind of casualness.
JJ DevaneyHOST
Do you know who else has that? And they both play on, uh, work on the weekends for Viaplay.
Andrew GundlingHOST
Who?
JJ DevaneyHOST
Jan Åge Fjørtoft.
JJ DevaneyHOST
...
JJ DevaneyHOST
I enjoy it.
JJ DevaneyHOST
When those two guys come on, and I always look now for the Viaplay interviews.
JJ DevaneyHOST
[laughs] Not the Premier League ones.
Mohammed HamzaGUEST
And then if we are moving on to the pay TV landscape itself in terms of the content and the owners of those platforms, there's been a number of sell-offs and Canal Plus in France has been One of the big kind of winners out of that, they bought Orange's OCS Studios in France.
Mohammed HamzaGUEST
They acquired a stake in Viaplay in the Nordics, namely.
Mohammed HamzaGUEST
They bought MultiChoice, which is a pay TV offer across South Africa and Pan-African as well in general.
Mohammed HamzaGUEST
And you've also seen Sky in Germany sell its assets to RTL, which is one of the biggest commercial broadcasters in Europe.
Edwin AshHOST
It really, really doesn't interest me.
Edwin AshHOST
And then Gabby Jesus was speaking to Viaplay.
Edwin AshHOST
That's the last one on the day.
Edwin AshHOST
Gabby Jesus, and he was lifting the lid on what happened with his transfer from Arsenal.
Edwin AshHOST
Hate waiting for them.
Edwin AshHOST
This is a holiday for me, but you know, I always will bring it to you.
Edwin AshHOST
So instead, what I did find yesterday was Mikel Arteta was speaking to, I think, Viaplay again, someplace, and he was asked a load of questions.
Edwin AshHOST
It's a nice little video.
Jan Åge FjørtoftHOST
We're having the reset after the World Cup.
Jan Åge FjørtoftHOST
And then we had a doubleheader yesterday because it's a Viaplay Premier Sunday with Smeichel, Jules Bridge, with Freddie Jungberg, Jaap Stam.
Jan Åge FjørtoftHOST
But I did the Everton-Manchester United game correspondent there.
Jan Åge FjørtoftHOST
And it was a funny game because Manchester United kind of controlled it.
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Jan Åge FjørtoftHOST
And, you know, sometimes you feel that.
Jan Åge FjørtoftHOST
Sometimes you're so wrong in those kind of things because it's hard to read something out of it, of course, at the warm-up.
Jan Åge FjørtoftHOST
Although, my colleague at Viaplay, Jan Mulby, the former Danish and Liverpool international, he always said that.
Jan Åge FjørtoftHOST
I can see a lot in the warm-up.
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