superdeluxe
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http://www.king5.com/mb/news/nation...m-nfl-thursday-night-football-games/428628913
Another Amazon prime benefit
Another Amazon prime benefit
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Amazon lands 50 million dollar deal to stream NFL Thursday games
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The Albatross
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Nice for me. Bummer if you don't have Amazon Prime. This is great because if I switch to YouTube TV whenever the hell it comes out, the only thing I'd lose is Thursday Night Football really, and it streaming on Amazon (or YouTube) nullifies that. *Edit* Oh, they're broadcast on NBC/CBS too, so w/e. Wonder what the deal with those other ~4 or 5 games are. The branded "Thursday Night Football" doesn't air on Week 17 and Thanksgiving (which has a night game but it's usually branded/handled by the NBC Sunday night contract & team), so I think that leaves 5 games.
I'd suspect that this deal might be a little bit of pay-to-play as well when the television contract negotiations come up in the next 5 years. It's going to be the biggest television negotiation deal ever, and the NFL is interested in courting Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and other streaming/cloud companies to drive up the cost for the networks and traditional cable channels.
It is pretty surprising because the NFL has an exclusive video agreement with YouTube and heavily promotes their YouTUbe videos.
I'd suspect that this deal might be a little bit of pay-to-play as well when the television contract negotiations come up in the next 5 years. It's going to be the biggest television negotiation deal ever, and the NFL is interested in courting Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and other streaming/cloud companies to drive up the cost for the networks and traditional cable channels.
It is pretty surprising because the NFL has an exclusive video agreement with YouTube and heavily promotes their YouTUbe videos.
Walter White Walker
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I'll watch if the Seahawk's have a Thursday night game but really, those games are nothing but trash.
ShadowSwordmaster
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The Last Wizard
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Mac the KNife
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VendettaRed07
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Mutanthands
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Not something I was clamoring to have added to my Prime benefits, but I guess it's a foot in the door for more sports. Diversify and conquer.
Thursday night games are shitty, bottom tier NFL product certain to gain as few eyeballs as possible, however. I don't see it as a major win.
Thursday night games are shitty, bottom tier NFL product certain to gain as few eyeballs as possible, however. I don't see it as a major win.
ThatCrazyGuy
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Yo, that Chris Tucker clip, lmao.
The Albatross
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Probably. I'd imagine TV contracts in other countries would prevent this. FOr instance, if Sky (or whoever) has exclusive rights to broadcast NFL games in the UK, then they probably have provisions on how streaming is handled.
Do you know if you could stream the TNF games on Twitter or Yahoo the last couple years in Europe?
They may, but Twitch can be really alienating for a lot of people myself included. Just seeing a steady torrent of racism, inside jokes, memes, and swears might be fine while watching a videogame stream, but the NFL might be more protective of their brand.
manzoman96
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tiggerkiddo
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Thursday night football is bad football, barely watched one of those games the entire year. Amazon can have them forever for all I care.
TheLostBigBoss
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That's a pretty good deal
Even if it's a horrible product
Even if it's a horrible product
Not sure on the situation in Europe, I'm in Australia.
We get games on our Monday morning, your Sunday on free to air TV. I don't think NFL is on Foxtel (Pay TV) here
superdeluxe
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CassidyIzABeast
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TNF is trash though.
superdeluxe
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PandaPandaPanda
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I only started watching football this past year, but I found Thursday night games to be fucking awful.
Roberto Duran
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I want Amazon on my Apple TV.
Evil John Locke
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Spider from Mars
tap that thorax
TNF would be free if it was a dollar/quality ratio.
Ninja Scooter
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the Thursday package is garbage but $50 million isn't all that much. For perspective, ESPN pays like $1 billion a year for the Monday Night Football brand/package, and those games are generally trash too.
Gentleman Jack
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Thursday night games....lol
Watch it require a secondary subscription purchase a-la Starz.
Watch it require a secondary subscription purchase a-la Starz.
aussiedude08
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Dont you have Gamepass?
I have foxtel and watch the games they show but couldnt go without Gamepass anygame i want. Because of Gamepass i havent missed a Packers game live since late in the 2007 season.
Foxtel show TNF, SNF, MNF and NFL Redzone for the Sunday games.
50 mil for C games? huh
might need it to make not seem like a loss, or ads ads ads
TheContact
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As someone who canceled cable (I watch via plex, Hulu, Netflix, HD antenna) I am OK with this. Last year, twitter sufficed, but any option that beats cable is only better for EVERYONE. The cable pay model is dying. Directv is aware of this; Comcast and the rest need to follow suit or they will die out in this market
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Spine_Ripper
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As in letting people have a chat? Or having people talk over the stream of the game with giant donate buttons everywhere?
Neither of which interest me...
I can only guess Amazon is going to try to sell everything even tangentially related to the NFL through this.
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