Dazn, the brand new season begins: we are going to see Diletta Leotta extra typically, Giusy Meloni and Bobo Vieri enter. However the editorial workers denounces the cuts

ROMA – The studio turns into the stadium. New faces, some goodbyes. And more room for Diletta Leotta. Dazn introduced its new season yesterday, the primary of the brand new five-year settlement with Serie A: the primary of its type within the historical past of TV rights. However a couple of hours earlier than the massive occasion at San Siro, with lights, company and firm executives, the meeting of journalists proclaimed a state of agitation.

Dazn, the brand new season: more room for Diletta Leotta

“We are going to digitize soccer like Spotify did with music and Netflix with cinema and TV sequence”. The announcement by the CEO of Dazn Stephen Azzi is a declaration of intent. It proclaims “new investments” and launches the brand new TV schedule that may broadcast all Serie A matches for the fourth consecutive 12 months and for the following 5. Extra space for Diletta Leottawhich is and can stay the face of Dazn. Whereas the voice will nonetheless be that of Pier Luigi Pardo. Leotta’s new ‘Stadio Present’ will debut in Genoa-Inter, the primary match of the following championship. And it is no coincidence: the stadium conduction can have increasingly area, reworked into the brand new bodily studio of Dazn’s pre and put up match, for main occasions, with over 120 minutes of dwell protection between earlier than and after, devoted to the evaluation of the match.

Giusy Meloni and Bobo Vieri are coming

The brand new face will probably be that of Giusy Meloniappreciated in the summertime at “Notti Europee” on Rai, which we are going to see her internet hosting on the pitch, whereas Georgia Rossi will discover more room within the digital studio, the place sports activities reporting will probably be mixed with revolutionary applied sciences reminiscent of augmented actuality. Different new entries embody Regina Baresi, Beppe’s daughter, as a technical voice. Whereas for referee evaluation the brand new addition is named Manuela Nicolosi. Briefly, increasingly area for girls on the digital platform. However not solely that: additionally Bobo Vieriarchived Bobo television, joins the crew. Confirmed then Massimo Ambrosini, Andrea Stramaccioni, Ciro Ferrara, Marco Parolo, Dario Marcolin, Valon Behrami, Fabio Bazzani, Emanuele Giaccherini, Alessandro Budel and Luca Marelli. Whereas Marco Cattaneo and Stefano Borghi say goodbye.

Extra space for giant matches

The thought is to extend the significance and the storytelling of the commentators, their involvement after the match, the interplay with the stadium administration. At the least for the massive match. In reality, Dazn will comply with the 5 predominant matches in additional depth: extra time for evaluation, extra insights. The protection of the opposite 5 matches will change as an alternative. That is one thing that the editorial workers doesn’t recognize a lot, and yesterday they proclaimed a state of agitation by means of a really harsh assertion towards the corporate.

The editorial workers in turmoil: “In direction of the lower of 14 journalists”

The meeting of Dazn journalists wrote: “Dazn is launching the brand new cycle of Serie A tv rights at the moment. On the identical time, nevertheless, the corporate is constant with its initiative, introduced on the finish of Might, to do away with 14 of the 32 journalists within the firm”. A renunciation that the journalists take into account “incompatible with Dazn’s new editorial plan. A plan that the editorial workers considers a transparent step backwards in comparison with the previous, provided that it gives that solely 5 out of 10 matches for every Serie A matchday are coated by Dazn journalists despatched on website. The editorial workers wonders how it’s attainable to innovate the soccer product and strengthen the storytelling by giving up nearly half of the journalists within the workers”.