- NFL will nearly double media revenue to over $10bn per season
- Amazon paying about $1bn for Thursday Night Football package
The NFL will nearly double its media revenue to more than $10bn a season with new rights agreements announced Thursday, including a deal with Amazon Prime Video that gives the streaming service exclusive rights to Thursday Night Football beginning in 2022.
The league took in $5.9bn a year in its current contracts. It will get $113bn over the 11 seasons of the new deals that begin in 2023, an increase of 80% over the previous such period, a person with direct knowledge of the contracts told the Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the money figures were not made public.
