A former serving police officer has admitted attempting to murder a woman in a Manchester hotel. James Riley, 28, from Preston, Lancashire, has today, November 7, pleaded guilty to trying to kill the woman on November 10 last year.
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Netflix is adamant that it’s not interested in live sports.
“We are in the sports business, but we’re in the part of the sports business that we bring the most value to, which is the drama of sport, Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos said on the company’s third-quarter earnings call.
Sarandos was referring to sports docu-series such as Drive To Survive, Full Swing, Quarterback and Beckham.
He added that there was no “core change” in its live sports strategy. This comes after Netflix set its first live sports event.
The streamer is hosting The Netflix Cup, a golf tournament that features drivers from its Formula 1: Drive To Survive series and golfers from its Full Swing show.
Kicking off on November 14 at an 18-hole championship golf course, around the Formula 1 Heineken Silver Las Vegas Grand Prix, the event marks the first time that Netflix has even dipped its toes into a live sports event.
In The Netflix Cup, four pairs consisting of one driver and one golfer will play an eight-hole match with the top two teams advancing to the final hole. The rosters includes Formula 1 drivers Alex Albon (Williams Racing); Pierre Gasly (BWT Alpine F1 Team); Lando Norris (McLaren Racing); and Carlos Sainz (Scuderia Ferrari), and PGA Tour golfers Rickie Fowler, Max Homa, Collin Morikawa and Justin Thomas.
Netflix’s rivals have been bolstering their sports coverage; Google-owned YouTube bought the rights to the NFL’s Sunday Ticket, Amazon Prime Video has Thursday Night Football among other rights and Apple TV+ has rights across Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer.
Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos has long talked about not getting involved in live sports, saying that it has not “seen a profit path” from “renting big-league sports”.
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A former serving police officer has admitted attempting to murder a woman in a Manchester hotel. James Riley, 28, from Preston, Lancashire, has today, November 7, pleaded guilty to trying to kill the woman on November 10 last year.
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Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Like other streamers, Netflix seems eager to get into live sports. But it isn’t quite ready to start paying the massive rights fees that such activity usually requires. So, the streaming giant intends to launch a “Netflix Cup,” a golf tournament that will pit race-car drivers from its popular Formula 1 documentary series “Drive to Survive” against golfers from a similar effort called “Full Swing.” Both sides will tee up in a match play tournament at Wynn Golf Club on the Las Vegas Strip.
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