Winner at the end of March (in front of Sky, the historical partner of Calcio) for 840 million euros per year of the tender for the television rights of Serie A in Italy, DAZN (with the financial support of Telecom Italia), had revolutionized the market by becoming the first sports streaming platform selected for the next three seasons as the main domestic broadcaster of one of the five major European championships.
La Gazzetta dello Sport had spoken of a “TV revolution”.
After the entry with fanfare, the first steps were followed with attention (seven exclusive matches, an offer supplemented by three co-broadcast matches) for this new generation broadcaster already participating in the broadcasting of championships in Japan or Germany (the British site nicknamed “Sport Netflix”, having pocketed the broadcasting of 106 Bundesliga matches per season for the period 2021-2025).
The device had a big failure on Saturday.
The tifosi were unable to follow the matches between Inter Milan, the leaders who received Cagliari (at 12:30) and Verona-Lazio Roma (at 3:00 p.m.).
After apologizing ("We are very bitter about what happened today on our platform. We are absolutely aware of the great responsibility we have towards all the fans and the whole world of sport") , DAZN explained that the problem was caused by "the failure of the authentication service provided by an outside partner, which it was not able to resolve quickly."
Before, according to Tuttosport to promise "compensation to subscribers."
A situation which, on social networks, aroused the wrath of frustrated supporters.
Deprived of their Calcio.
“Social media on fire: angry fans,” summed up La Gazzetta dello Sport.
DAZN finally managing to regain control at 5 p.m.
Procrastination that inspires reflection at La Republicca: “Internet services sometimes break down.
In recent months, Google, Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp and Telegram have crashed for varying periods of time.
From time to time, it happens: the internet, or rather one of its essential services with a few billion users, breaks down.
And if the tech giants of Silicon Valley go down, can we really think that Dazn will still be able to work? ”
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