{"id":51329,"date":"2025-07-12T18:59:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T15:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=51329"},"modified":"2025-07-12T18:59:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T15:59:28","slug":"apple-bids-for-formula-1-us-streaming-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/12\/apple-bids-for-formula-1-us-streaming-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Bids for Formula 1 US Streaming Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has submitted a bid worth at least $150 million a year for the US rights to stream Formula 1 races starting in 2026, Business Insider reported on Friday, citing a source familiar with the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>The iPhone-maker is poised to win the rights as the leading bidder, the report said, as Walt Disney&#8217;s ESPN, which currently holds the rights, will not try to match or beat it.<\/p>\n<p>Apple declined a Reuters request for comment, while F1 and its owner Liberty Media did not immediately respond.<\/p>\n<p>The news follows Apple&#8217;s success with its &#8220;F1: The Movie&#8221; film starring Brad Pitt, that has grossed over $300 million worldwide as of Friday, according to IMDb&#8217;s Box Office Mojo.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN holds the US broadcast rights for these races through the year&#8217;s season, though Reuters has reported in February that its exclusivity period to negotiate a new contract with F1 has expired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has submitted a bid worth at least $150 million a year for the US rights to stream Formula 1 races starting in 2026, Business Insider reported on Friday, citing a source familiar with the negotiations. The iPhone-maker is poised to win the rights as the leading bidder, the report said, as Walt Disney&#8217;s ESPN, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51330,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51329\/revisions\/51330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}