Apple After Rights To Stream English Premier League Football
Well, it looks like Sky have got some serious competition on their hands. The Daily Mail are reporting this morning that Apple ‘are showing interest in joining the billion pound battle for the next set of live Premier League TV rights when the tender goes out before the end of the season’.
Apple see the Premier League as a crucial platform to help establish their Apple TV in the UK and of course boost their iPad sales as the iTunes subscription service is already in place.
The Daily Mail reports that Sky paid £1.6 billion for their current packages and we all know that Apple have plenty of cash to splash. So watch this space…
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter BA (Hons), ARPS is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator, and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.She holds a First Class Honours degree in Photography and is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society (ARPS).Her journalism, criticism and editorial work have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography and NikonPro, among other international publications.Through TheAppWhisperer, she brings together academic knowledge, professional photographic expertise and more than 17 years of specialist editorial experience to examine contemporary photography, mobile imaging, computational photography, photographic applications and emerging imaging technologies.
