The Washington Submit isn’t on the market, proprietor Jeff Bezos and the newspaper say

The Washington Submit isn’t on the market, spokespeople for the newspaper and its proprietor Jeff Bezos informed CNN on Monday.

They denied a New York Submit report, which cited unnamed sources, suggesting the billionaire may shed the newspaper to assist fund a possible buy of the Washington Commanders NFL workforce.

Bezos visited the Submit newsroom final week, assembly with employees and sitting in on editorial conferences. A supply near the state of affairs stated Bezos informed the paper’s senior employees in non-public conferences that he had no plans to promote the paper.

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(AMZN) founder, together with Jay-Z, is in talks on a possible joint bid on the Commanders, CNN beforehand reported. In an unique interview with CNN in November 2022, the billionaire businessman was requested if he was in search of to purchase the workforce.

“Sure, I’ve heard that buzz,” Bezos stated with a smirk.

Bezos identified that he “grew up in Houston, Texas, and I performed soccer rising up as a child.”

“It’s my favourite sport,” he stated within the interview. “So we’ll simply have to attend and see.”

Present proprietor Dan Snyder, going through allegations of a poisonous office and for concentrating on accusers, has denied the accusations however says he’s contemplating a sale of the workforce.

The Commandars are one of the notable franchises in one of the fashionable sports activities leagues on the earth. The Commanders have gained three Tremendous Bowls (in 1983, 1988 and 1992) and the workforce is positioned within the big Washington, DC, market.

The NFL is the largest scores powerhouse on American TV and has been a success for Amazon Prime Video, which is the unique house to “Thursday Night time Soccer.”

Jay Marine, Prime Video’s head of sports activities, wrote in an inside memo in September that the debut “exceeded all of our expectations for viewership” and led to “the largest three hours for US Prime signal ups ever within the historical past of Amazon.”