Netflix is looking to make a big jump into live sports, but Amazon is standing in its way.
Puck's John Ourand reported last week that Netflix (NFLX) is expected to carry the NFL's two-game Christmas Day slate for the 2024 season, which would be the first time that the streaming giant would air a live sporting event for any of the four major sports.
However, a new report from Puck on Monday claims that Amazon is trying to outbid Netflix for the rights to those games.
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Ourand said that Amazon (AMZN) , which is in the early years of an 11-year deal paying $1 billion per year to the NFL to air "Thursday Night Football" on Prime Video, is trying to add the package as another way to promote its other businesses, like its e-commerce platform.
Amazon has adapted the same strategy for airing the NFL's Black Friday games, which the company paid $100 million to air last year for the first time in the league's history.
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Despite Amazon's bid, Netflix is still the frontrunner to land the Christmas Day rights, per Ourand, as the move would allow the NFL to create a relationship with another of the top streamers.
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It would also be a connection with a third of the four "FANG" tech companies as the NFL already works with Google (GOOG) , which owns the rights to NFL's "Sunday Ticket" on YouTube TV.
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