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Amazon to show live Premier League football matches for first time
LONDON, June 7, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Online streaming service Amazon’s wielded
its financial might on Thursday, winning the right to show 20 Premier League
football matches a season for three years from the 2019/20 season, the
English Premier League announced.
The US company is the first to break up the previous dominance of Sky and
BT Sport and will exclusively livestream all 10 matches over one bank holiday
and another 10 during one midweek fixture programme.
Sky and BT will nevertheless show the vast majority of live matches, with
128 and 52 respectively.
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