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Amazon Scoops NFL Streaming Deal Away From Twitter for $50 Million
Amazon has won the rights to stream [espn.com] Thursday night National Football League games by quintupling the price Twitter paid for the last season's games [nflcommunications.com]:
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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