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Motorsport

Nordic Entertainment Group has paid a colossal increase for Formula One rights in the Netherlands, sending shockwaves through the Dutch media rights market by more than trebling the current value.
Football

The English Premier League has voted to roll over its existing domestic broadcast deals into the 2022-25 cycle after receiving approval in principle from the UK government to sidestep its usual tender…
NFL

Online retail and streaming video giant Amazon has reached a supplemental agreement with the National Football League to accelerate its exclusive domestic media rights to Thursday Night Football by one…
Football

The new three-year deals, from 2022-23 to 2024-25, would replicate the current three-year deals, from 2019-20 to 2021-22. This includes the duration, the fee and the number of matches.
American Football

The NFL has shown that a little flexibility goes a long way in the US, securing like-for-like growth of about 80-per-cent by allowing partners to use the NFL as a central pillar of their respective streaming platforms.
Football

Online retail giant Amazon has been granted a licence for nationwide live broadcasts on its Prime Video subscription streaming service in Germany as it prepares to begin its Uefa Champions League coverage…
Baseball

Major League Baseball’s New York Yankees and the YES Network have revived a long-planned digital rights deal with Amazon in which the ecommerce and streaming video giant will show 21 live Yankees games t…
American Football

The National Football League has solidified its domestic media rights distribution well into the next decade and reaffirmed its position as the pre-eminent programming in all of American television, regardless…
Motorsport

Ian Holmes, Formula 1’s director of media rights, has revealed that the motorsport series is in discussions with e-commerce giant Amazon over a possible carriage deal for its F1 TV over-the-top streaming s…
Swimming

Amazon’s first sports rights acquisition in Australia left local industry insiders puzzled and expecting further moves for sports content by the tech giant.
Football

A new documentary series offering a behind-the-scenes look at Italian Serie A football club Juventus will launch on Amazon Prime Video, the subscription OTT offering, later this year
Football

The English Premier League will continue to make all its matches in the 2020-21 season available for broadcast in the UK until supporters are permitted back into stadiums
Football

Online retail giant Amazon has announced that German and European champions Bayern Munich will become the latest football club to be the subject of a behind-the-scenes documentary aired on its Amazon Prime…
Football

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has received bids for its domestic broadcast rights from online retail giant Amazon, subscription streaming operator DAZN and international broadcast group D…
Football

The bid deadline for broadcast rights to Serie A in the Middle East and North Africa has been pushed back by two weeks and will now fall at 10am (CET) on February 15
Football

UK sports rights experts say the English Premier League will delay its domestic media rights auction until April or May with a view to having deals in place prior to Euro 2020, which begins on June 11.
Multi-sport

Online retail giant Amazon secured almost half of all new UK subscriptions to streaming services in the final quarter of last year, according to new data. The UK witnessed almost 1
Cricket

Rights to England’s forthcoming cricket tour to India will be retained in the UK by the Walt Disney Company to exploit itself, it has been reported.