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Netflix Looking To Get In The Live Sports Game; Streamer Quietly Bidding On Leagues, Rights

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Netflix is looking to get off the bench and into the live sports game. Over the past few months, the streamer has been quietly looking into acquiring the rights to a number of leagues and events, Deadline can confirm.

In particular, deals were under discussion for several tennis tours as well as a purchaser of the World Surf League, as the Wall Street Journal first reported earlier today.

Pursued to a variety of degrees, none of those agreements ever came to fruition, yet. Even with all the big leagues and events from the Premier League to the NFL, world cricket and the Olympics tied up in long term deals, the streamer remains on the hunt. “Sports is the baseline now, we all know it, and finding the right properties, the right leagues is a priority, but it is always a question of the right league, the right deal,” a Netflix insider told Deadline.

Officially, Netflix had no comment when contacted by Deadline on whether or not they were bidding on sports events or leagues.

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