Bidding war for rights to air NBA’s 2025 season is officially on
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@Marketplace— Amazon Prime, Apple TV+ and Netflix want to expand their live sports offerings. The deal can be worth tens of billions of dollars.
Music Business Worldwide—From the bidding war for Hipgnosis Songs Fund to ByteDance’s battle for TikTok in the US it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up. The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days Source
Deadline—NBA Rights Chase Will Reportedly Draw Hefty NBCUniversal Bid, With Amazon Looking To Lock League’s First National Streaming Deal. The NBA’s new round of rights negotiations has reportedly lured NBCUniversal back to the league after an absence of more than two decades. NBCU is planning to bid $2.5 a year for rights to the games, according to the Wall Street Journal. If the offer is successful, the company would supplant media rival Warner Bros. […]
The Foreign Desk—U.S Official: China’s Government is Hiding Labor and Human Rights Violations. The Chinese government is undermining workplace audits in China to hide human and labor rights violations, according to a U.S. Labor Department official. Thea Lee, the Labor Department’s deputy undersecretary for international affairs, testified to Congress on Tuesday that workplace audits in China are extremely unreliable. Audits are often announced ahead of time, which gives