Amazon has made a bid for all of the 22 regional sports TV networks that Disney acquired from Twenty-First Century Fox.
The potential deal is the e-commerce giant’s most aggressive foray into sports broadcasting and a potential landmark moment for the industry.
Teams and leagues have been waiting for digital giants like Apple, Facebook and Google to make a push into acquiring live sports rights.
Amazon Chief Jeff Bezos (left) has apparently entered the running to purchase 22 sports networks and expert Alan Walks said the potential bid is a 'big deal' for the company
Amazon has already dabbled in sports broadcasting, and has shown ‘Thursday Night Football’ broadcasts this fall and airing the US Open tennis tournament in the United Kingdom.
But the company has now reportedly entered the running to purchase 22 regional cable networks across the country.
In addition to Amazon, Apollo Global Management, KKR, The Blackstone Group, Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tegna also made first-round bids for the full slate of networks, sources told CNBC.
The group of channels includes the YES Network, which broadcasts New York Yankees games, and regional sports networks in St Louis and Detroit, as well as a slew of others.
The networks, valued at around $20 billion, hold the local rights to a tapestry of NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball teams.
Alan Wolk, co-founder and lead analyst for the media consulting firm TVREV told CNBC: 'In the other cases, [Amazon has] been taking second dibs, airing content that is also on traditional TV.
‘This is the first time when it’s like, Yeah we want the whole thing. It’s a big deal’.
Amazon has already dabbled in sports broadcasting and has shown ‘Thursday Night Football’ broadcasts this fall
Disney acquired the 22 regional sports networks, as they are known, from 21st Century Fox last year as part of a much larger deal.
But it has been required by the Department of Justice to sell them because of antitrust laws.
Disney has 90 days to sell the channels from the date the Fox deal closes, which is expected to be early next year.
Earlier this year, Fox sold some television and movie assets to Disney, which owns the sports channel ESPN. The Justice Department forced Disney to sell the Fox regional sports networks to get that deal done.
Disney has 90 days to sell the channels from the date the Fox deal closes, which is expected to be early next year
Fox acquired its 80 percent interest in the YES Network in separate transactions in 2012 and 2014.
YES is home to the New York Yankees and also carries Brooklyn Nets games.
Dan Cohen, who leads the sports marketing company Octagon’s media rights consulting practice told the Washington Post.
‘NHL, NBA and MLB teams aren’t going to be in love with the idea that their local content could be going to be put behind a Prime subscription’.
Cohen suggested Amazon could introduce a model where a baseball team might put some of its games behind a Prime paywall, while other broadcasts would be available to stream free.
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Main photo article Amazon has made a bid for all of the 22 regional sports TV networks that Disney acquired from Twenty-First Century Fox.
The potential deal is the e-commerce giant’s most aggressive foray into sports broadcasting and a potential landmark moment for the industry.
Teams and leagues have been w...
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