Amazon buys one of the remaining PL packages
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They'll do a BT and make you pay an extra £5 per mth for Prime Sports. Betcha.
It'd fit the Amazon business model of separate Prime subs. However, I suppose it depends on how much loss they want to take for getting more Prime subscribers.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if you're correct, but equally, I wouldn't be surprised if they did a full or half season free with normal Prime, everyone I know who has tried Prime for free has stuck with it since so assuming that's reflected overall in their numbers they may take the loss to grow their customer base.
I've been with prime for years now. It's ace.
Ok, this is VERY interesting actually.
They've sold it at a 'heavily discounted price' (telegraph source, paywall) & Facebook are believed to be favourites to buy the last remaining one also at a heavy discount.
I may be being cynical, but I suspect this is an initial move towards getting figures to help drive more streaming exclusive packages, which could be used to split packages up ever more so & even lead to a club by club basis (Henry bleating on about the 'big six' not getting their fair share of the pie due to bigger viewing figures last week seems conveniently timed).
They've sold it at a 'heavily discounted price' (telegraph source, paywall) & Facebook are believed to be favourites to buy the last remaining one also at a heavy discount.
I may be being cynical, but I suspect this is an initial move towards getting figures to help drive more streaming exclusive packages, which could be used to split packages up ever more so & even lead to a club by club basis (Henry bleating on about the 'big six' not getting their fair share of the pie due to bigger viewing figures last week seems conveniently timed).
Prime has never done live streaming has it?
Twitch already has done USsport streams and there is suggestion that due to being bank holiday and midweek match days in the package they've purchased that they will concurrently stream each match something Bein and whoever else have donefor however long but its unprecedented in the UK - something, sat & sun match days don't allow.
Twitch just makes more sense, already available on mobile/pc/tv etc and infrastructure already there. Twitch sub required potenitally but thats what ive been expecting for a while now.
Twitch already has done USsport streams and there is suggestion that due to being bank holiday and midweek match days in the package they've purchased that they will concurrently stream each match something Bein and whoever else have donefor however long but its unprecedented in the UK - something, sat & sun match days don't allow.
Twitch just makes more sense, already available on mobile/pc/tv etc and infrastructure already there. Twitch sub required potenitally but thats what ive been expecting for a while now.
As I will, simply cos the illegal streams are better to use & navigate than any of the legal ones I've used, with the exception of Sky Go, which is only so good cos I use it on the PS4 so navigation/UI is easy.
Just done a bit of digging, Amazon has bought the US open Tennis rights & have stated it will be free for Prime subscribers, they don't mention Twitch.
“We are proud to add the US Open to the growing portfolio of sports available on Prime Video,” said Alex Green, managing director of channels and sports for Amazon’s Prime Video operation in Europe. “This makes Prime Video a destination for tennis fans.”
Also found details from the Amazon shareholders letters, which state they want to grow their Prime subscriber base (which is already 100 million!) as they spend around double what non Prime subscribers do on Amazon.
What principle?
Optus sports in Oz has been good
Ha, nope.
The packages each cover 20 matches per season. One covers two rounds of 10 midweek matches, while the other covers one midweek round of 10 matches and one on a bank holiday. It will be the first time that entire rounds of Premier League matches will be shown live in the UK.
BT bought the other package
It looks like there is legal streaming over the next 3 seasons. One Bank Holiday weekend and one midweek set of fixtures will be available on Amazon Prime.
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Amazon has broken Sky and BT’s stranglehold on Premier League football by striking a groundbreaking deal to livestream exclusive coverage of 20 matches per season online.
The US company will exclusively livestream all 10 matches over one bank holiday of Premier League games and another 10 during one midweek fixture programme, for three seasons from 2019.
BT has bought the other remaining rights package, paying £90m per year for exclusive live coverage of 20 midweek Premier League games each season. From August 2019 BT will show 52 live games per season, and Sky 128.
It is the first time that packages of livestreaming matches have been offered by the Premier League, under a strategy introduced by the chief executive, Richard Scudamore. He has been seeking to lure a deep-pocketed technology company such as Amazon, Facebook, YouTube or Netflix to help to continue to drive up earnings from media rights.
Amazon has been in negotiations about the two package for months – against rivals including BT – after the completion of the sale of the most valuable TV rights packages in February.
The Premier League was unable to achieve the price it was seeking for the streaming packages, with bidders unable to see how to make a real return on just having two rounds of matches a season.
Global players such as Amazon prefer multi-country or worldwide deals to make the economics work, which is how Netflix can afford to spend £100m per season on shows such as The Crown.
However, the deal adds to Amazon’s burgeoning local sports rights portfolio, with the UK becoming a major focus.
In April, Amazon paid tens of millions of dollars for the exclusive UK rights to the US Open tennis, giving subscribers who pay £79 a year for its Prime Video service access to three of the four grand slams. A deal with Eurosport provides access to the Australian and French Opens.
Amazon also outbid Sky in a £50m deal for the UK rights to the ATP World Tour, the men’s global competition featuring Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray, including the annual final showdown at London’s O2.
The recent deals – which have been struck by the Amazon Europe chief, Jay Marine, and the European Prime Video boss, Alex Green – also include a $130m renewal of non-exclusive livestreaming of NFL games. Earlier this year Facebook struck an exclusive deal to stream some Major League Baseball matches and last year it was frustrated in a $600m bid to secure streaming rights to Indian Premier League cricket matches.
The best five of the seven packages of media rights, allowing live TV coverage of more than 200 matches per season from 2019 to 2022, were sold in February, with Sky and BT once again dividing the spoils. Sky took four of the best five, for £3.75bn and a 14% discount on its current deal. BT secured only one of the prime packs, at £885m, down from its current £960m and for fewer games.
The rivalry between Sky and BT in recent years has resulted in huge price inflation of 70% at each of the past two auctions. The total cost of the rights has rocketed from £1.78bn for 2010-13 to £5.13bn for 2018-2019.
Subscribers to Amazon’s Prime service, which also includes a wide range of perks such as free delivery of products and access to free music, are hugely valuable as they spend twice as much at Amazon than non-subscribers.
The founder, Jeff Bezos, recently revealed that there are more than 100 million Prime subscribers globally and he is keenly focused on building the value of the service, including through TV content deals. Last year, he ordered executives to find a Game of Thrones-style global hit, resulting in an estimated $1bn (£740m) deal to bring Lord of the Rings to TV.
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Amazon has broken Sky and BT’s stranglehold on Premier League football by striking a groundbreaking deal to livestream exclusive coverage of 20 matches per season online.
The US company will exclusively livestream all 10 matches over one bank holiday of Premier League games and another 10 during one midweek fixture programme, for three seasons from 2019.
BT has bought the other remaining rights package, paying £90m per year for exclusive live coverage of 20 midweek Premier League games each season. From August 2019 BT will show 52 live games per season, and Sky 128.
It is the first time that packages of livestreaming matches have been offered by the Premier League, under a strategy introduced by the chief executive, Richard Scudamore. He has been seeking to lure a deep-pocketed technology company such as Amazon, Facebook, YouTube or Netflix to help to continue to drive up earnings from media rights.
Amazon has been in negotiations about the two package for months – against rivals including BT – after the completion of the sale of the most valuable TV rights packages in February.
The Premier League was unable to achieve the price it was seeking for the streaming packages, with bidders unable to see how to make a real return on just having two rounds of matches a season.
Global players such as Amazon prefer multi-country or worldwide deals to make the economics work, which is how Netflix can afford to spend £100m per season on shows such as The Crown.
However, the deal adds to Amazon’s burgeoning local sports rights portfolio, with the UK becoming a major focus.
In April, Amazon paid tens of millions of dollars for the exclusive UK rights to the US Open tennis, giving subscribers who pay £79 a year for its Prime Video service access to three of the four grand slams. A deal with Eurosport provides access to the Australian and French Opens.
Amazon also outbid Sky in a £50m deal for the UK rights to the ATP World Tour, the men’s global competition featuring Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray, including the annual final showdown at London’s O2.
The recent deals – which have been struck by the Amazon Europe chief, Jay Marine, and the European Prime Video boss, Alex Green – also include a $130m renewal of non-exclusive livestreaming of NFL games. Earlier this year Facebook struck an exclusive deal to stream some Major League Baseball matches and last year it was frustrated in a $600m bid to secure streaming rights to Indian Premier League cricket matches.
The best five of the seven packages of media rights, allowing live TV coverage of more than 200 matches per season from 2019 to 2022, were sold in February, with Sky and BT once again dividing the spoils. Sky took four of the best five, for £3.75bn and a 14% discount on its current deal. BT secured only one of the prime packs, at £885m, down from its current £960m and for fewer games.
The rivalry between Sky and BT in recent years has resulted in huge price inflation of 70% at each of the past two auctions. The total cost of the rights has rocketed from £1.78bn for 2010-13 to £5.13bn for 2018-2019.
Subscribers to Amazon’s Prime service, which also includes a wide range of perks such as free delivery of products and access to free music, are hugely valuable as they spend twice as much at Amazon than non-subscribers.
The founder, Jeff Bezos, recently revealed that there are more than 100 million Prime subscribers globally and he is keenly focused on building the value of the service, including through TV content deals. Last year, he ordered executives to find a Game of Thrones-style global hit, resulting in an estimated $1bn (£740m) deal to bring Lord of the Rings to TV.
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This forum is falling to pieces.
Ah yeah, one of the articles I read mentioned facebook being the final bidder & I thought there were three unsold packages not two, my fault for skimming too many articles too quickly.
Thread's merged.
Netflix should then sponsor one of the premier league teams. It will be interesting to see what would happen.
Not really, because nothing would happen.
I would've guessed it would have been over Christmas as they can't show Saturday 3pm games.
So 2 matches? That's shite
Why is it?
Fuck would I watch most of the shit in the league. I tend to watch Liverpool or no one.
Fuck would I watch most of the shit in the league. I tend to watch Liverpool or no one.
Nah. Netflix is better I think. I have both as I have millions of kids and no ability to ever leave the house.
The new mini trailer thing Netflix are doing FUCKING SUCKS tho. I liked it for about 45 seconds ‘Oh look, how cool is that!’ Within the next 4 minutes of browsing I had grown to fucking hate it.
And the categorisation on both is utter wank
‘Films that have the same sound director’
‘Funny or dramatic TV shows or films’
‘Films you cant get to Kevin Bacon from in 3 moves’
Fuck off the pair of you. Give me an alpha list and add new shit on the end.
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