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HBO Max, which is owned by AT&T but in the midst of a deal to be spun off into a new entity with Discovery, has also been mentioned less often than other competitors.īut the New York Post reported in November that HBO Max could be a “dark horse” candidate for the package.Īnd then there’s the incumbent, DirecTV. “It would be negligent on us not to take a deep dive into any one of these key elements of the NFL…Obviously we’re interested in any kind of conversation with the NFL where we could deepen our partnership with them.” But NBC has been in business with the NFL for many years and is known for frequent big bids on sports packages, most recently re-upping its deal with the English Premier League.īut in his own interview with Sports Business Journal this fall, NBC Chairman Pete Bevacqua did not rule out such a bid. However, Puck reported this fall that Disney could ultimately spin off ESPN, although the company has denied that it plans to do so.Ĭomcast has certainly been mentioned much less often in the media when it comes to Sunday Ticket partners. The package, Chapek said, “would make a particularly good addendum to our ESPN+ service.” And Front Office Sports reported in November that Disney is interested in adding Sunday Ticket to ESPN+, citing no less of a source than Disney's CEO, Bob Chapek. In November, there was another report, from Front Office Sports, that Amazon was the favorite to get both the Sunday Ticket rights and the NFL Media stake.ĭisney is a longtime broadcast partner of the NFL, with ESPN broadcasting Monday Night Football for many years, and ESPN-owned ABC before that. The report added that Amazon had a “serious interest” in the package and was in talks with the NFL.

Amazon is already in business with the NFL, having successfully bid on the rights to the Thursday Night Football package, to the tune of a reported $1 billion per year.Ī different report from September, from CNBC, listed Amazon as the “likely frontrunner” for a multi-year Sunday Ticket deal.

“So that diversifies the league-or the league’s always believed in an inclusive diversified kind of network mix.”Īnother tech giant frequently mentioned as a potential Sunday Ticket partner is Amazon.

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“Apple is different from Amazon in the sense that they are still a technological device company,” Patrick Crakes, a TV consultant and formerly an executive with Fox Sports, told The Athletic in the September story.

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Apple has never bid on professional sports rights before, but the NFL is said to have some interest in getting access to the iPhones of so many fans. Back in September, The Athletic reported that the NFL preferred Apple as the next Sunday Ticket partner.

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