Amazon becomes a new player in live Premier League TV rights deal

Amazon bought a package of live broadcasting rights for English Premier League soccer, the first foray by a U.S. tech giant into a top European championship. Amazon will show two full rounds of matches per season, comprising 20 games, for three years starting in 2019, the Premier

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Published 7 June 2018, 8:00 · Updated 21:27

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Amazon becomes a new player in live Premier League TV rights deal

Amazon bought a package of live broadcasting rights for English Premier League soccer, the first foray by a U.S. tech giant into a top European championship.

Amazon will show two full rounds of matches per season, comprising 20 games, for three years starting in 2019, the Premier League said in a statement Thursday. The games will be available on Amazon Prime Video at no extra cost to users, Amazon said.

“We are always looking to add more value to Prime,” Jay Marine, vice president of Amazon Prime Video in Europe, said in a statement. “The Premier League is the most watched sports league in the world.”

The rest of the live U.K. broadcasting rights to Premier League soccer are shared between Sky and BT.

Amazon becomes a new player in live Premier League TV rights deal

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