Earlier this week, the Monetary Occasions reported that Apple was in energetic negotiations to amass the streaming rights for Method 1 in the US.
Enterprise Insider now builds on that report and says that “barring a last-minute change,” Apple is poised to safe this deal.
From immediately’s report:
Apple has submitted a bid price not less than $150 million a yr to stream the races beginning in 2026. And ESPN isn’t going to attempt to match or beat that, in keeping with a supply aware of negotiations.
So barring a last-minute change, it appears like Apple, which already has offers to stream some professional baseball video games, and all of Main League Soccer’s video games, could have a 3rd sports activities streaming providing subsequent yr.
Following the Monetary Occasions report on Tuesday, Puck reported that Apple had submitted a proposal over between $150 million and $200 million per yr for the rights to F1 streaming within the US. ESPN at the moment holds these rights and pays round $90 million yearly. ESPN’s deal expires after this F1 season, so Apple is about to take the wheel beginning with the 2026 season.
If the deal goes by, it should mark a big enlargement of Apple’s sports activities ambitions. At present, Apple TV+ is the unique dwelling for all Main League Soccer video games. Apple TV+ additionally streams unique MLB video games every week by its Friday Night time Baseball broadcast.
It’s additionally an enormous model synergy alternative for Apple, following its profitable debut of F1: The Film final month.
There are, after all, many questions on how Apple will stream F1. Presumably it should exist alongside Apple TV+ and MLS Season Move as a separate streaming bundle. It’s additionally unclear what the deal will imply for F1 TV, as we questioned earlier this week. It’s attainable, or maybe probably, that Apple will receive unique rights to F1 streaming within the US and subsequently withhold entry from F1 TV.
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