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Podcast: Unofficial Partner Podcast
Episode: UP392 Has NBC earned the right to host Premier League games in the US?
Description: NBC has built an audience for the Premier League in North America, creating a broadcast home for English club football for more than a decade. The television giant's latest six year deal is worth $450million-per-season to the league, more than five times the size of their original US rights deal, in 2013. Does that money buy them the right to host Premier League games in the USA? Adam Crafton of The Athletic/New York Times has just moved over to the US to cover the run-in to the 2026 FIFA World Cup, and he recently wrote a deep dive...