Paramount buys UFC rights for $ 7.7 billion, ending PPV events

Paramount has just received the rights of US UFC for a period of seven years in a $ 7.7 billion deal, . This contract It begins in 2026 It covers the full organization list of 13 papers and 30 night fighting events per year. All matches and events in the United States will be broadcast on Paramount+ and Select Fights will flounder on CBS.

This ends the payment form for each PPV that preferred ESPN+ for the distinguished UFC events. “What is in payment for each offer anymore? Boxing on Directv? It is an old preventive model,” said Mark Shapiro, President of TKO, TKO president at UFC. The matches are done throughout the year, and this is not true in other sports. This must maintain the base of the huge fans in the parameon+.

This happened just a few days after And its subsidiaries of $ 8 billion. It is somewhat wild that Skydance paid $ 8 billion to possess Paramount, various IPS addresses forever and $ 7.7 billion for UFC battles in one country for seven years.

“UFC is one of the assets that appear almost once after a decade,” said David Ellison, CEO of TKO. Paramount is also concerned with buying international rights to broadcast UFC matches, and is granted an exclusive negotiation window with each country to do so.

It is possible that Paramount is likely to put Trump in several ways to ensure the approval of the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) to acquire. Company To settle a A lawsuit with Trump yet 60 minutes He was interviewed with Kamala Harris and cut an answer to time, something that was always provided by televised interviews. Paramount will allocate this money to the future presidential library of Trump and have not provided “an apology statement or unfortunately.”

CBS, owned by Paramount, has also been canceled Late offer with Stephen ColbertAnd that many saw as a . The president denies this, saying To “the pure lack of talent”.

Paramount promised to end all programs of diversity, fairness and inclusion (DEI) based on the United States and to CBS news To ensure that conservative voices are not sinking by the continuous reality shield. Trump also announced publicly that CBS would provide it For public service ads in line with his ideological beliefs.