TV rights: "We do not like these these three-year type soccer deals" (D. Zaslav, Discovery)

"We don't like doing business with these three-year type soccer deals, which we're getting out of, and so I think we’re going to be opportunistic (regarding the rights acquisition strategy). We're in the sports business. We may even be the leader in sports around the world when you aggregate all of our intellectual property," said David Zaslav, CEO of Discovery, during the presentation of the American audiovisual group's annual accounts, on 26/02/2019.

"In most of those cases, we bought sports assets that have a very long tail. In the case of the PGA (see below), it's through the end of 2030. In the case of the Olympics, we did it for a decade. In the case of cycling, we own the business," said the CEO of Discovery, the parent company of the pay-TV group Eurosport.

"There's a lot of sports where the federations are going to want to try and reach [around] the globe, but they're not going to have the scale to build a platform. Our platform is built. They're not going to have the scale to market in every country. We have multiple channels in every country and we have an online…