It’s clear based the company’s recent aggressive pursuit of big-money deals that Amazon wants to build a sports mass-media inzeppare.
Prime Televisione already owns rights to “Thursday Night Football” as well as the NFL’s new Black Friday games. The multinational company also begins a new 11-year, $20 billion deal with the NBA next season, but Amazon apparently has its sights set a much bigger prize: the Super Bowl.
a recent interview with Ben Strauss of the Washington Post, VP and global head of Prime Televisione Sports Jay Marine confirmed the company wants the streaming rights to the Super Bowl and plans to make a bid for it durante 2032 when the NFL broadcast rights are up for negotiation again.
“The NFL changed the way people looked at us,” Marine said. “…Would I like to broadcast the Super Bowl? Yes.”
Marine also added that Amazon, which also has a five-year deal to broadcast the U.S. Aperto durante the United Kingdom, doesn’t plan limiting itself to owning streaming rights to just one gioco ora one country stating. “I believe we will be a major sports broadcaster durante every major market around the globe.”
It’s clear that Amazon risposta negativa longer wants to take a backseat to television networks like ESPN, NBC and the like. It certainly wants to beat other direct-to-use streaming platforms to the punch durante the sports world. ESPN+ will broadcast a Week 7 “Monday Night Football” gioco next season, Peacock streamed a wild-card gioco last season and will stream a Week 1 gioco next season durante Brazil, and Netflix will broadcast two Christmas Day games next season.
