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Amazon strikes deal to show 21 Yankees games on Prime Video
Prominent streaming platform and YES Network investor to simulcast local OTA games
Amazon Prime subscribers boosted by Premier League coverage
Amazon Prime Video’s UK subscriber numbers increased by 35-per-cent year-on-year during the fourth quarter of 2019 on the back of its coverage of football’s English Premier League.
IMG’s Wood lands Amazon sports role in Europe
Online retail giant Amazon has recruited Tim Wood, a long-serving executive at the IMG agency, as its head of business affairs, sport at Prime Video Europe
Uefa secures massive Champions League hike in Germany as broadcaster battle heats up
Uefa has increased the value of Champions League rights in Germany by nearly 70 per cent in the 2021-24 cycle, driven by an intense broadcaster battle in which DAZN ousted Sky Deutschland and Amazon made another foray into premium football.
Amazon makes first major football play in Germany with Champions League package
Online retail giant Amazon has picked up a package of exclusive Uefa Champions League rights in Germany for the new 2021-22 to 2023-24 cycle
Amazon’s Premier League debut proves a hit amid record sign-ups
Amazon has revealed that its debut coverage of football’s Premier League this week led to a record number of new sign-ups to its Prime subscription service.
New York Yankees ‘partnering with Amazon for local streaming-rights deal’
The New York Yankees are reportedly looking to partner with e-commerce giant Amazon to become the first Major League Baseball team to offer games to in-market viewers without a cable TV subscription.
Amazon looks to address streaming concerns ahead of Premier League bow
Amazon has held talks with a range of internet service providers as it looks to ensure its debut coverage of football’s English Premier League does not meet any technical problems next week.
Eurosport Player heads to Amazon devices
US media group Discovery has struck a deal with Amazon to bring Eurosport Player, the OTT platform of its international sports broadcaster, to the technology company’s Fire TV, Fire tablets and Echo S…
New York Yankees-led group completes re-acquisition of YES Network control
Prominent MLB team partners with Amazon, Sinclair, other investors for top-watched US RSN
Amazon pays premium in French Open domestic rights play
Internet giant Amazon will pay more than public-service broadcaster France Télévisions for a substantially smaller package of rights to the French Open’s 2021-23 cycle.
Amazon takes down paywall for live Bundesliga radio coverage
Online retailer Amazon has opted to make its live radio coverage of the Bundesliga, DFB Pokal and Uefa Champions League available free to users in Germany
Amazon poised for UK pubs, clubs deal with BT Sport for EPL rights – report
E-commerce and media company Amazon is reportedly to link up with pay-television broadcaster BT Sport in a deal that would see Amazon’s 20-game English Premier League rights package in the UK shown in p…
France Télévisions, Amazon land 2021-23 domestic French Open rights
The French tennis federation (FFT) has awarded domestic rights to the French Open for the 2021 to 2023 cycle to public broadcaster France Télévisions and internet giant Amazon, it said Thursday.
French Open tender gambit unlikely to boost FFT revenues
The French tennis federation’s (FFT) decision to hold its first tender in six years for domestic rights to the French Open is unlikely to significantly boost incomes or break the broadcasting duopoly of France Télévisions and Eurosport, according to industry experts spoken to by SportBusiness Media.
Amazon confirms WTA rights deal in UK, Ireland
Internet giant Amazon confirmed on Wednesday that it has acquired Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Tour rights in the UK and Ireland in a four-year deal starting from 2020.
Yankees exploring creating YES Radio
The Yankees are exploring creating YES Radio. The Yankees are closing in on reacquiring a controlling stake in YES Network in partnership with Amazon and Sinclair
Amazon seeks UK tennis dominance with WTA rights play
Amazon secured Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Tour rights in the UK for the 2020-23 cycle with a bid nearly 60 per cent higher than incumbent pay-television broadcaster BT Sport's current fee, SportBusiness Media understands, as the tech and ecommerce giant moves to establish a dominant position in UK tennis broadcasting.