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Fans dont neccesarily want to watch the interviews right away. In fact I will call BS on that the media us required at all. Certainly not in this day and age of

Fans dont neccesarily want to watch the interviews right away. In fact I will call BS on that the media us required at all. Certainly not in this day and age of sovial media. Osaka and her PR team xan easily handle a livestream a few days after the game where she can talk directly to her fans and answer their questions directly. Or she can just release a video/audio detailing how the game went, what she did, whats next with several orders of magnitude more engagement.

peoplefromibiza 5y ago
Truth is Osaka is paid by the fees the media pay to broadcast the event, not by her followers. French Television and Eurosport bring around 25 million euros every year. Amazon also bought the rights to stream the matches, but I haven't found the terms of the deal.
- vagrantJin 5y ago
  Yes, for the broadcast. By all means. Pre and post match content is just noise. Interviews are too short and mechanical, wasting everyones time. They could use the time to show ads. Let athletes give their own post game analysis.
  - peoplefromibiza 5y ago
    that's part of the deal. Media buy the rights to broadcast the event and "rent" the image of the players to show it in related products (commentary, highlights, etc. etc.) that is the most precious content for advertisers, since they can't cut the action to show ads.
- rurban 5y ago
  Osaka is the highest paid player, but only because of her endorsement deals. She's risking those. On the other hand we have the very same miserable interview theatre in film. Actors and directors are obliged to appear and entertain the media. Famous is Lars von Trier's Cannes interview which was hysterically blown out if proportions by some extremely stupid press lady and their colleagues, destroying his career. But there exceptions are allowed. A notorious instable psycho is Teddy Mallick who successfully refuses all press obligations. He does not get fined. It's his own risk. If you don't give interviews people have to actually critizise the film, which is too hard for some folks.
  - peoplefromibiza 5y ago
    I don't disagree with you and I don't usually watch interviews, I'm interested in the matches not on what players have to say about them. But ... > Famous is Lars von Trier's Cannes interview which was hysterically blown out if proportions ... boy the showbiz love those outburst! It gives them weeks worth of material to talk about! I'm with Osaka on this, but she signed a contract and in the current setup there isn't much we can do to change it. Tickets alone don't pay for the prizes tennis players are getting and if we raise ticket prices, we'd go back to old times when regular people could not afford to watch them live.

peoplefromibiza 5y ago

Truth is Osaka is paid by the fees the media pay to broadcast the event, not by her followers. French Television and Eurosport bring around 25 million euros every year. Amazon also bought the rights to stream the matches, but I haven't found the terms of the deal.

vagrantJin 5y ago
Yes, for the broadcast. By all means. Pre and post match content is just noise. Interviews are too short and mechanical, wasting everyones time. They could use the time to show ads. Let athletes give their own post game analysis.
- peoplefromibiza 5y ago
  that's part of the deal. Media buy the rights to broadcast the event and "rent" the image of the players to show it in related products (commentary, highlights, etc. etc.) that is the most precious content for advertisers, since they can't cut the action to show ads.
rurban 5y ago
Osaka is the highest paid player, but only because of her endorsement deals. She's risking those. On the other hand we have the very same miserable interview theatre in film. Actors and directors are obliged to appear and entertain the media. Famous is Lars von Trier's Cannes interview which was hysterically blown out if proportions by some extremely stupid press lady and their colleagues, destroying his career. But there exceptions are allowed. A notorious instable psycho is Teddy Mallick who successfully refuses all press obligations. He does not get fined. It's his own risk. If you don't give interviews people have to actually critizise the film, which is too hard for some folks.
- peoplefromibiza 5y ago
  I don't disagree with you and I don't usually watch interviews, I'm interested in the matches not on what players have to say about them. But ... > Famous is Lars von Trier's Cannes interview which was hysterically blown out if proportions ... boy the showbiz love those outburst! It gives them weeks worth of material to talk about! I'm with Osaka on this, but she signed a contract and in the current setup there isn't much we can do to change it. Tickets alone don't pay for the prizes tennis players are getting and if we raise ticket prices, we'd go back to old times when regular people could not afford to watch them live.