Joe Markowski was asked about skeptics. They are not in short supply around DAZN, the online sports subscription service that launched in Canada almost two years ago, and which officially has full control of all English Premier League broadcast rights in this country.



“There are skeptics who are incentivized to be skeptics,” he said, “and there will be supporters.”



Markowski, the executive vice-president of DAZN North America, was making the rounds to discuss a transaction Joshua Kloke first reported in December: The online upstart has shifted the domestic sports landscape by wresting the EPL rights away from Sportsnet and TSN for at least the next three seasons.



Beginning in August, if you are a fan of top-flight English soccer, you will only find your game on DAZN.



“There are skeptics,” Markowski said. “There will always be skeptics when you try to do something new and exciting. We don’t spend too...