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Motorsport

The Formula One motor-racing series will harness its partnership with Amazon Web Services to introduce new in-race television graphics for the 2019 season

Amazon has made its biggest and boldest move into live sports broadcasting by joining the bidding for all of the 22 Regional Sports Networks that Disney acquired from 21st Century Fox but has been forced …
American Football

Internet company Amazon has revealed that viewing figures for its coverage of the NFL’s Thursday Night Football games have increased by 22 per cent this season.
Tennis

Internet company Amazon’s Prime Video service has confirmed a deal to stream live coverage of Laver Cup tennis matches in more than 200 territories worldwide.
Football

The Premier League’s 20 clubs are unconcerned about the small drop in the value of their domestic live rights in the next cycle, following deals this month with BT and Amazon that brought the protracted sales process to a close.

Tennis

The value of US Open media rights across Europe will increase by about 26 per cent in the next cycle following deals struck with Eurosport and Amazon last month.

Football

English Premier League football club Manchester City has today (Thursday) signed a content partnership with internet company Amazon which will result in the production of a behind-the-scenes series for its Prime subscription service.

Multi-sport

Last month’s Olympic Games sublicensing deal in Germany with ARD and ZDF has plugged a large gap in Discovery Communications’ revenue projections.

Tennis

Amazon secured its first major sports rights deal in the UK with the acquisition of ATP World Tour 1000 and 500 rights, a move which surprised local experts.

American Football

Digital rights to Thursday Night Football will again be a test bed for the NFL and a new entrant in 2017, after Amazon acquired the package won by Twitter last year.