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Amazon Scoops NFL Streaming Deal Away From Twitter for $50 Million

posted by on Thursday April 06 2017, @10:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the fumble-recovery dept.

takyon writes:

Amazon has won the rights to stream Thursday night National Football League games by quintupling the price Twitter paid for the last season's games:

Amazon is getting into the live sports broadcasting business. The retailing giant, which has spent hundreds of millions of dollars acquiring content for its subscription video business, has won the rights to stream "Thursday Night Football" games for this upcoming season.

Sources confirmed to ESPN that the deal to stream the games, which will be simulcast on the NFL Network and either CBS or NBC, is worth $50 million, up from the $10 million that Twitter paid for the streaming in the deal last season.

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  • (Score: 1) by Arik on Thursday April 06 2017, @12:55PM (1 child)

    by Arik (4543) on Thursday April 06 2017, @12:55PM (#489630) Journal
    Isn't it absurd? Yet people just eat it up, sitting on their couches making woof noises watching other people get exercise.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06 2017, @01:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06 2017, @01:01PM (#489634)

    I know. It is great fun looking down one's nose at people; it makes us feel much better about ourselves.