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Industry Moves

Marie Donoghue, who played an integral role in growing Amazon's sports rights portfolio in the United States, is to leave the online retail giant
American Football
Media

Amazon Prime Video's second season as the exclusive Thursday Night Football broadcaster returned a 24-per-cent increase in total viewership in the United States compared to its inaugural season
Multiple Sports

Amazon has found that premium sports properties drive acquisition of new customers to its Amazon Prime premium service but are not necessary for their retention.
Boxing
Media

Al Haymon's Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) promotion has found a new broadcast home in the United States following the shutting down of Showtime Sports, announcing an exclusive tie-up with Amazon Prime…
Cricket

Online retail giant Amazon “blew the competition out of the park,” to quote one source, in order to secure International Cricket Council rights for the next four years in Australia.
American Football
Media

Amazon Prime Video's Thursday Night Football (TNF) broadcast of the Seattle Seahawks-Dallas Cowboys NFL game on November 30 drew its best-ever audience with an average of 15.26 million viewers
Football
Media

The National Women's Soccer League has agreed the largest media rights deals in women's sport in contracts spanning four years worth $60m (€56m) annually, with games airing on CBS, ESPN, Amazon and Scripps S…
Football
Media

The domestic broadcast rights auction for French football’s Ligue 1 from 2024-25 onwards is to launch on September 12 after the date was approved today (Wednesday).
American Football
Media

National Football League owners have voted to approve limited flexing of Thursday night games to Sundays
Football
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Inter Milan’s victory over city rivals AC Milan in last night’s Uefa Champions League semi-final second leg generated Italy’s highest free-to-air audience of the season for a club football match. M
Football
Media

TV8, the free-to-air channel of pay-TV broadcaster Sky Italia, has secured rights to the all-Milan Uefa Champions League semi-final first leg
Baseball
Media

DirecTV for Business has reached an agreement with Amazon Prime Video to distribute the entire 20-game slate of New York Yankees Major League Baseball regular-season games being shown on the streaming…
American Football
Governance

The annual meeting of National Football League franchise owners continues today (Monday), with an extension of league commissioner Roger Goodell's contract and flexible scheduling for Thursday Night Football…
Football
Media

The French Football Federation (FFF) has hailed the successful experiment of equipping the referee with a microphone for Friday’s Ligue 1 game between Olympique Lyonnais and Nantes.
Football
Media

Online retail giant Amazon has retained its package of broadcast rights in Italy to first-pick Wednesday evening matches from the Uefa Champions League in a new deal covering the 2024-27 cycle
Multiple Sports
Media

Content and technology company SportsGrid and Amazon Prime Video have reached a global distribution agreement for Amazon's Freevee to the launch SportsGrid Network FAST channel, which will be the first…
Bull Riding
Media

The Endeavor-owned Professional Bull Riders has joined the ever-increasing sports docuseries wave with the eight-episode The Ride, which will premiere later this year on Amazon Prime Video in more than…
Baseball
Media

Amazon Prime Video and J Sports have acquired media rights in Japan for the upcoming World Baseball Classic national team competition