Amazon Platform May Be Best Fit for U.S. Soccer Broadcast Rights
A recent report from Futbol with Grant Wahl indicated that CBS Sports, Turner Sports and Amazon are the favorites to win U.S. Soccer’s English-language broadcast rights…
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Ballmer’s $1.8 Billion Clippers Arena Signs Intuit to Record Naming Deal
Steve Ballmer gave the Los Angeles Clippers a basic charge when it came to designing the team’s new arena: Let’s just build the greatest building in the world. And while…
DirecTV Spinoff Should Heat Up NFL Sunday Ticket Rights Chatter
AT&T has closed on the deal to spin off DirecTV as a standalone entity with an assigned enterprise value of $16.3 billion. Per terms of the deal, which will see AT&T…
Amazon’s Alexa Builds NHL Vocabulary on Former Intel Execs’ Startup
Direct competition between tech’s biggest companies, including Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook, has driven the smart speaker and display market, with roughly <span…
Amazon Prime Video Accelerates Thursday Night Football Takeover
Amazon Prime Video will be getting an early start on its stewardship of Thursday Night Football, upgrading a year ahead of schedule from its original 2023 kickoff…
Serena Williams Sets Docuseries, First-Look TV Deal at Amazon
Serena Williams has signed a first-look TV deal with Amazon, which includes a docuseries about her personal and professional life, Variety reports. “I’m very excited to…
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NFL, Amazon Are Bringing Thousands of New Products to Retail Giant
The National Football League is partnering with Amazon to bring thousands of officially licensed products to the retail giant, a move that could transform the…
AWS Becomes Official Cloud Provider for the PGA Tour
The PGA Tour has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its official cloud provider, using AWS machine learning, storage, computing, analytics, database and media…
AT&T Spins Off DirecTV to Set Stage for an NFL Sunday Ticket Shakeup
AT&T has initialized the long-rumored sale of a 30% stake in DirecTV to the private equity firm TPG Capital, in a transaction that will see the telecommunications spin…
Amazon’s March Into Sports Continues with NHL AWS Data Deal
Amazon Web Services and the NHL announced a deal Wednesday that will give the league access to AWS’ cloud hosting and data analysis…
Incoming CEO Andy Jassy Could Extend Amazon’s Sports Reach
Last week, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced in a letter to employees that he will be stepping down as CEO at the end of the second quarter (he will transition into…
The ‘Fourth Quarter’ of Sports Media: Streaming Invites New Bidders for Events and League Rights
Ed Desser is president of Desser Media, Inc. John Kosner is president of Kosner Media. Last week, we wrote about electronic sports media heading into its “fourth quarter”…
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