Prime Video didn’t see value in pursuing more Epl soccer rights in the league’s next deal, which takes hold in 2025.
The English Premier League (Epl) has a new TV deal! Its broadcast rights in the United Kingdom have been locked up by Sky Sports, with a smaller package of games heading to TNT Sports. Notably absent in the new deal are streaming partners; unlike its current deal, which runs until 2025, the Epl’s next agreement won’t send any games to Prime Video.
The Epl will get more money overall in its current deal, but less on a per-game basis. Apple was reportedly interested in pursuing English Epl rights, but backed away after reevaluating its sports strategies. Lack of streaming partners suggests perhaps more companies have taken Apple’s view about international exclusivity in sports rights. 30-Day Free Trial $8.99+ / month amazon.com No Amazon, No Problem?
The new Epl TV deal in the U.
The English Premier League (Epl) has a new TV deal! Its broadcast rights in the United Kingdom have been locked up by Sky Sports, with a smaller package of games heading to TNT Sports. Notably absent in the new deal are streaming partners; unlike its current deal, which runs until 2025, the Epl’s next agreement won’t send any games to Prime Video.
The Epl will get more money overall in its current deal, but less on a per-game basis. Apple was reportedly interested in pursuing English Epl rights, but backed away after reevaluating its sports strategies. Lack of streaming partners suggests perhaps more companies have taken Apple’s view about international exclusivity in sports rights. 30-Day Free Trial $8.99+ / month amazon.com No Amazon, No Problem?
The new Epl TV deal in the U.
- 12/8/2023
- by David Satin
- The Streamable
The Premier League juggernaut keeps rolling after the English football competition sold UK television rights for 2025 and beyond in a reported £6.7B ($8.5B) auction.
Comcast-owned Sky maintained its stranglehold on rights to the Premier League, securing four of five packages of live games. Warner Bros. Discovery-backed TNT netted the other package of rights.
The auction left no room for Amazon Prime Video despite speculation in the British press that the U.S. streaming giant would bid to show more Premier League games after entering the market in 2019.
The new deals commence in the 2025/26 season and run for four years. The packages cover a minimum of 215 live matches per season, which will include more than 140 matches played at weekends.
BBC Sport has been awarded highlights rights for all 380 Premier League matches each season, meaning its flagship show Match of the Day will continue until 2029 at least.
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Comcast-owned Sky maintained its stranglehold on rights to the Premier League, securing four of five packages of live games. Warner Bros. Discovery-backed TNT netted the other package of rights.
The auction left no room for Amazon Prime Video despite speculation in the British press that the U.S. streaming giant would bid to show more Premier League games after entering the market in 2019.
The new deals commence in the 2025/26 season and run for four years. The packages cover a minimum of 215 live matches per season, which will include more than 140 matches played at weekends.
BBC Sport has been awarded highlights rights for all 380 Premier League matches each season, meaning its flagship show Match of the Day will continue until 2029 at least.
Premier League CEO...
- 12/4/2023
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
EA Sports correctly predicted the winner of the 2010 World Cup using its soccer engine, and they hope to be able to do a great deal more now, thanks to a new technology deal with the British Premier League. The multifaceted agreement includes new opportunities for EA to gather data from real-world gameplay and leverage it to make better video games. EA Sports global president Peter Moore believes such stats may be key to winning American hearts.
"As someone who lives in the United States and went over there in the 1970s, but also someone who understands American sports very well, Americans need to statistically analyze everything and this is where soccer befuddles them sometimes because it's too fluid," Moore said, according to a report by the Associated Press. "That U.S. consumer that is used to waking up the next morning and being able to look at every baseball box score.
"As someone who lives in the United States and went over there in the 1970s, but also someone who understands American sports very well, Americans need to statistically analyze everything and this is where soccer befuddles them sometimes because it's too fluid," Moore said, according to a report by the Associated Press. "That U.S. consumer that is used to waking up the next morning and being able to look at every baseball box score.
- 7/22/2010
- by Brian Warmoth
- MTV Multiplayer
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