expected by the 2027-28 season<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s a five-year contract with an annual rights fee believed to be in the $20M range, according to industry sources, and a chance to reach $30M-plus with equity, revenue sharing and other ancillary gains. The Cavs\u2019 previous rights fee with Main Street Sports Group — before Main Street began defaulting last year — was about $35M. <\/p>\n
Barlage and Cleveland native Walker Jacobs — who is DAZN Group\u2019s Chief Revenue Officer and President of DAZN USA — would not comment on the rights fee, other than to say they anticipate growth year-over-year. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe will collaborate in every way,\u201d Jacobs said. \u201cWe\u2019re primarily leading the commercial side of the business in terms of how we\u2019re working with advertisers and sponsors and partners and developing programs that are going to come to life inside the broadcast. Our teams collaborate on that and make sure that we\u2019re building really best-in-class activation. So that\u2019s one aspect of it. But we\u2019re really a tech organization at heart.\u201d<\/p>\n
DAZN\u2019s Cavalier subscription options include a monthly $19.99 pass ($119.99 annual) that allows two streams in a single location and downloading capabilities; or a $29.99 monthly ($139.99 annual) \u201cultimate\u201d pass with five streams in two locations, multi-view, downloading, alternate angles and feeds, plus 15% off Cavs.com\/shop. All full-season and half-season Cavs United and Foundation members will be gifted complimentary access to Cavs games on DAZN. All subscriptions include a weekly show and extended game highlights.<\/p>\n
Eventually, the team will also choose a local channel to simulcast 15 Cavs games OTA (the same 15 games DAZN will put in front of its own paywall), which is DAZN\u2019s way of ingratiating itself to the Cavalier fanbase. DAZN will also house select RESN content, such as the AHL\u2019s Cleveland Monsters, the G League Charge and high school football games — again to localize its platform.<\/p>\n
\u201cEach team [including the T\u2019Wolves and Pacers] has a slightly different set of priorities that they\u2019re trying to achieve, and so we\u2019re trying to be both pragmatic but flexible,\u201d Jacobs said. \u201cIt\u2019s not a defect that there is this sort of nuance in each of the deals. Some of them might have a couple more games that are free in front of the paywall. Some of them might have different production [DAZN, for instance, is paying the Pacers\u2019 production costs, but not the Cavs\u2019]. Some of them might have different sort of talent arrangements. It\u2019s because we\u2019re sitting down and we\u2019re listening, and we\u2019re really trying to understand the unique situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
DAZN\u2019s final two exclusive deals are expected to be with the Spurs and Grizzlies in the coming days or weeks. Add in digital-only contracts with the Knicks, Nets and Wizards — and upcoming digital deals with the Magic and Hornets — and the platform will host a third of the NBA.<\/p>\n
Range Sports advised DAZN on the Cavs negotiations, while the team handled the deal in-house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cavaliers on Tuesday became the third NBA team to exclusively house their local broadcasts on DAZN this…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1036918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[36330,68192,1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1036917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-cavaliers","tag-dazn","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117195968759492581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1036918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}