Amazon buys NBA rights for 'significant' regular season and playoff games in 10-year deal
by Awful Announcing
Awful Announcing— The NBA’s exclusive negotiating window with Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery just ended on Tuesday. But Amazon Prime Video has already agreed to a “significant” deal with the league to broadcast regular season and playoff games, according to Andrew Marchand of The Athletic. Marchand reports Amazon and the NBA are in agreement on a deal
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The Athletic—Amazon Prime has framework deal for NBA broadcast rights, per sources, putting pressure on TNT, NBC. In what will be a landmark move in sports media history, the and Amazon Prime Video have the framework of a deal that will make the streaming service one of the main homes for the league’s games, executives with direct knowledge of the talks told The Athletic. It is expected that Prime Video’s package will include significant regular-season and postseason games, perhaps even some conference finals. The anticipation is that the final contract will be for at least a decade and begin the 2025-2026...
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