Rupert Murdoch had a pressing matter to raise when he and his top lieutenants dined at the White House in February.
The National Football League was already by far the richest game in town, but it wanted more. The league was angling to reopen existing media deals, potentially giving deep-pocketed streamers a chance to make even more inroads into America’s most popular sport. Murdoch’s Fox network, the smallest of the NFL’s partners, would have to pay up or risk losing its whole franchise to the likes of Amazon and YouTube.
At the dinner, Murdoch warned Trump that if streamers gained rights to more games, it would kill broadcast networks, a person familiar with the evening’s events said. Trump listened to the concerns and asked questions about the business, the person said.
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