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Originally Posted by bitontheslide
Amazon will show 20 Premier League matches a season for three years from 2019, after winning one of the final two broadcast packages.
The online streaming service has won the rights to show one round of midweek games and one round from a bank holiday.
The matches will be available to Amazon Prime's UK members.
The other unsold package of 20 matches was bought by BT Sport for £90m, taking their total to 52 games.
In February, Sky Sports paid £3.579bn for four packages, while BT Sport spent £295m on another package.
What has Amazon got and how does it work?
Amazon have paid for two full rounds of fixtures a season - the first December midweek round and the festive Bank Holiday round.
It will be the first time a full round of Premier League fixtures will be broadcast in the UK.
In addition Prime members can watch weekly highlights of all Premier Leagues games throughout the season.
Memberships costs £79 a year or £7.99 a month.
Amazon, which started as an online retailer, already broadcasts the US Open tennis, ATP World Tour Tennis events and NFL games.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44396151
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Thats going to stir things up a bit! |
Boxing Day games
This isn't good news will cost another 80 quid a year on top of Sky etc..
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