Amazon Scores Its First UK Premier League Rights; BT Adds Matches
June 07 2018 - 6:56AM
Dow Jones News
By Adria Calatayud
Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) secured rights to broadcast live Premier
League soccer matches in the U.K. for the first time starting from
the 2019-2020 season, as BT Group PLC (BT.A.LN) secured rights to a
further 20 matches a season.
Amazon said it will have exclusive rights to 20 matches a season
under a three-year deal that will include the first December
mid-week round and the festive Bank Holiday round. The games will
be available on Amazon's Prime Video in the U.K., the U.S. company
said.
BT said it will pay 90 million pounds ($120.7 million) for the
rights to a further 20 Premier League matches for every season from
the start of the 2019-2020 one. These new matches add to the 32
Saturday matches BT won earlier this year, the company said. The
total cost for 52 games a season will be GBP975 million over three
years, BT said.
On Thursday, the Premier League sold the two remaining packages
of broadcasting rights for the three seasons from 2019 to 2022. The
other five packages were auctioned in February, when Sky PLC
(SKY.LN) extended its rights to show the bulk of Premier League
games through 2022 for GBP1.19 billion, securing 128 matches a
season.
Write to Adria Calatayud at
adria.calatayudvaello@dowjones.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
June 07, 2018 07:41 ET (11:41 GMT)
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