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More details are emerging about how Duke pulled off its landmark deal with Amazon, with ACC commissioner Jim Phillips shedding new light on the arrangement Wednesday. “ESPN was in every one of the conversations,” Phillips said. “To Duke’s credit, they came up with something creative and brought it to ESPN and us. Where it finished…
This originally appeared in Tuesday morning’s edition of The A Block, Awful Announcing’s daily newsletter with the latest sports media news, commentary, and analysis. Sign up here and be the first to know everything going on in the sports media world. The NFL’s media rights negotiations produced a flurry of news over the past week or…
The Big Ten and Fox Sports are apparently going to war over control of a neutral-site college basketball game next season. Last week, Duke University and Amazon announced a landmark deal that would see three Blue Devils men’s basketball games air exclusively on the company’s Prime Video streaming service. Two of these games — a…
Duke has agreed to a deal with Amazon to stream three non-conference games a year which could mark a new revenue stream for elite college basketball programs.
Duke-Amazon partnership, explained: Why Blue Devils will have three college basketball games only available on Prime sportingnews.com
Jason Kelce has been willing to try just about everything since retiring from the NFL and making his long-awaited foray into the media. The latest project, according to the New York Times, is a “YouTube show” that is in the works with Amazon through its new Creator Services division. As the Times reports, that division for now…
The idea of a streaming-only Super Bowl was unthinkable as recently as three years ago. Now, there are plenty of people who see it as a foregone conclusion, including a very high-ranking Amazon executive. Back in 2021, former ESPN and Meadowlark Media executive John Skipper predicted that a paywalled Super Bowl was in our future, but…
