It’s Official: Amazon’s Going After Live Sports
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4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2016
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Amazon’s bid to disrupt the cable TV industry is officially underway. Tim Hanson analyzes the prospect of live sports on Amazon’s platform, the bizarre difference between Under Armour’s two share classes, and Markel’s after-hours dip.
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| 0:14.0 | It's Tuesday in November 22nd, welcome to Mark Flour. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today. |
| 0:19.0 | Investor at Large, Tim Hanson. |
| 0:21.0 | I love that title. |
| 0:22.0 | Thank you. Thanks for being here. That's my pleasure. I love that title. Thank you. |
| 0:23.0 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm happy you're here for a couple of reasons, one of which is the news fairy showed up and you were the first person |
| 0:30.1 | I thought of, we'll get to that in a second. |
| 0:31.8 | We're going to try and figure out what in God's |
| 0:34.6 | name is happening with Under Armour, the stock, the A shares versus the C shares, and we'll |
| 0:40.7 | dip into the full mail bag. Our first story that Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon is actively exploring live sports programming. |
| 0:51.0 | And the reason you are the first person I thought of |
| 0:53.7 | when I saw this story is because I think you were the first person, |
| 0:57.9 | and this was years ago, this might have been 2011, |
| 1:01.7 | 2012 on this podcast, you were the first person I remember raising the prospect, not |
| 1:08.6 | of Amazon getting into live sports programming, but Apple, Just with Apple's, with the cash they had on hand, and I |
| 1:16.0 | remember you saying, I think it would be interesting and not very expensive on a relative |
| 1:22.0 | basis for Apple to go to one of the big college conferences, go to |
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