{"id":946237,"date":"2025-07-14T08:06:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=946237"},"modified":"2025-07-14T08:23:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:53:59","slug":"apple-reportedly-bids-150m-for-annual-f1-streaming-rights-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/14\/apple-reportedly-bids-150m-for-annual-f1-streaming-rights-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple reportedly bids $150M for annual F1 streaming rights in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc. is reportedly making a bold entry into motorsports by bidding at least $150 million per year for exclusive US streaming rights to Formula One starting in 2026, according to a Business Insider report citing a source close to the negotiations. <\/p>\n<p>The offer positions Apple as the frontrunner to secure the highly sought-after rights, with current broadcaster ESPN &#8211; owned by Walt Disney Co. &#8211; unlikely to match the bid. ESPN\u2019s contract expires at the end of this season, and its renewal exclusivity window has already closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc. is reportedly making a bold entry into motorsports by bidding at least $150 million per year for exclusive US streaming rights to Formula One starting in 2026, according to a Business Insider report citing a source close to the negotiations. The offer positions Apple as the frontrunner to secure the highly sought-after rights, with current broadcaster ESPN &#8211; owned by Walt Disney Co. &#8211; unlikely to match the bid. ESPN\u2019s contract expires at the end of this season, and its renewal exclusivity window has already closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}