Kyren Williams, No. 23 of Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish, celebrates with his teammates after catching up against the Purdue Boilermakers during the first half at Notre Dame Stadium on September 18, 2021.
Perhaps the most dramatic call in recent months was made in January by Wedbush analyst Dan Ives, who predicted that Apple was poised to spend billions of games to build offers.
Just two months later, Apple terminated the marketing agreement with MLB, and last month agreed to a new partnership with MLS. But these deals are in jeopardy compared to what Apple would probably spend its $ 28 billion investment.
AT & T’s $ 1.5 billion-a-year Sunday ticket deal with the NFL expires after the 2022 season, and an NFL owner with negotiating experience tells me that Apple will be one of the buyers in the next deal. Also on Apple’s menu are NBA news rights, currently worth an average of 2.6 billion per year. The current deal provides for television line and other broadcasting rights to Walt Disney’s ESPN and Turner Sports. Both Sunday Tickets and NBA new internal deals can split the broadcasting and broadcasting that Apple acquires broadcasting.
Then there’s college football, within a brouhaha reconstruction conference that has a Big Ten conference that hangs on its media rights — as well as the opportunity to get Notre Dame into the party. The Fighting Irish are currently part of the ACC outside of football (an important sport in terms of media rights), for which you are independent.
If Notre Dame became part of the Big Ten, it would give the conference three of the most popular clubs in the world and leave college football with two clear top football meetings, of which the SEC is one. Big Ten news deals expire later this season, and with Apple and Amazon major competing broadcasting rights, the next package could be worth up to a billion dollars a year.
