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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
You are trying to take us for fools if you are denying that the money will follow the football. I am sure the advice Amazon gets from its experts will enable them to assess whether it will be worthwhile to make a bid for the Premiership football, and it is pretty clear to me that this advice will lead them to go for it. You have not explained exactly why this would not work for Amazon even though it works for Sky and BT. Given that you are one of the 'nothing will ever change' brigade, you will only begrudgingly start to believe it when it hits you in the face.
You are entitled to your view, but you will be proved wrong. Sooner or later, Amazon will get in there, and my guess is that this will come about in the 2022 bidding process.
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Well, maybe the broadband infrastructure in the US does not make this a viable project just now - I don't know. But frankly, it's irrelevant. The fact that Amazon bothered to go for these bucket shop rights, with all the energy they had to expend on making this work for just five days in December must prove that the determination is there if the experience proves successful.
Anyway, we will soon see, just three years to find out.
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If money follows football again the graveyard of Sky competitors in this country indicates there's a bit more to it than that.
£5bn is a huge wedge of money to invest with so much uncertainty about the model, pricing and the customer base.
Amazon haven't had to expend much energy broadcasting these games. Neither does it show a determination. It shows a unique opportunity where they could get rights of no value to anyone else that had some value to Amazon due to timing. This was by design of a league desperate to drum up interest.
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Originally Posted by buckeye
You are presupposing Amazon would bid for all Premier League rights by coming up with that figure.
If and its a big if Amazon bid for rights next time round what makes you think they would go for all rights and not just one or two packages?
Or maybe the EPL will structure a new package to tempt Amazon to spend more than they have in this round?
Something like all bank holiday weekend games or all games for several mid weeks?
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I'm sure if the league puts something on a plate, at low cost, Amazon will of course be interested. However thats a dangerous game for the league to play risking the ire (and value of the rights) to their largest revenue streams Sky and BT.