DAZN’s well-documented streaming struggles in Italy have taken a boost, with the sports streaming app landing on set tops from Sky Italia. It comes almost a year after Italian incumbent TIM took measures to improve the DAZN viewing experience for its own subscribers by implementing multicast ABR technology from Broadpeak, while DAZN deployed a private edge CDN from MainStreaming – leading us to question whether Sky Italia has taken similar steps? The plot now thickens. Back when DAZN’s Italian streaming struggles escalated in summer last year, after the €2.5 billion rights-share deal in Q1 2021 for Serie A matches, inside sources suggested at the time that DAZN and TIM were on the cusp of embracing LCEVC (low-complexity enhancement video codec)…