Over the past few weeks, the United States the battle between the giants of the stars and stripes TV to be able to win the rights on the live broadcast of the Formula 1 race weekends starting next season 2023. In addition to ESPNexpiring this year, the other two top candidates answered the name of Amazon, Comcast And Netflixwhose offers, however, would have been rejected by Liberty Media.
For this reason, according to reports Sport Business Journalwill be once again ESPN to ensure the transmission of the races in the United States, moreover with a contract renewal expected until the end of the world 2025. Although there is not yet an official status, the operation now seems to be over, with the television company paying for it 75 to 90 million dollars a year to secure the rights, against the current 5 million that refer to the contract signed in 2019.
An increase that responds to the increase in the popularity of Formula 1 in the USA, a country in which, in 2023, three races valid for the world championship will be held: Miami, Austin and the novelty represented by Las Vegas. According to the rumors always provided by SBJ, ESPN will provide a limited number of GPs streaming on its service ESPN +while the remaining appointments will be visible on the free channels owned by the group, such as ESPN or ABC. Always according to the sources, Amazon it would have submitted a higher offer, close to $ 100 million, with the right to sublicense a linear television network.
At the same time, however, Comcast was very close to the proposal of ESPN in economic terms, with the inclusion of several tenders in its streaming service Peacockin addition to free-to-air coverage NBC and USA Network. Offers that, however, were rejected by Formula 1, as well as that of Netflixapparently not satisfactory in economic terms. Finally, the F1 executives have however made it clear that they are not yet ready to put all the races on a streaming service.
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