Man United expecting Amazon, Facebook interest in EPL rights

Manchester United is anticipating Amazon and Facebook to pursue broadcast rights for the English Premier League.

Soccer's wealthiest competition is preparing to sell rights for games for the 2019-2022 cycle, with the most valuable domestic rights due to be auctioned early in 2018. The rights to show games in Britain are currently split between pay TV networks Sky and BT, who are collectively paying 5.1 billion pounds ($7 billion) over three years. On top of that, the 2016-19 overseas rights are generating more than 3 billion pounds.

Sky, whose biggest shareholder is Rupert Murdoch's Fox, has held the majority of rights since the competition's inception in 1992.