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Amazon lands 50 million dollar deal to stream NFL Thursday games

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RBH said:
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Love the 1st post reference btw. /clap
 
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lastflowers

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hrm. They got me to keep my prime subscription for another year.

why 10 games? London ones not included or something?

edit: oh wait, whoops, london is sunday morning.
 
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Lkr

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So they paid money for it, put it behind a paywall, but the games are still on CBS/NBC? And they're still gonna give commercials I imagine? And it's for the games that nobody watches and everyone bitches about? I don't see how this is good for them
 
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aussiedude08 said:
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.
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Well there you go. I refuse to sub to Foxtel
 
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TesUsa said:
Billions for TNF? You got receipts ?
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Its difficult to say with certainty how much CBS and NBC pay for TNF because they're packaged with the Sunday games but our closest comparison can be to ESPNs deal with MNF which costs them $1.9 Billion a year.

Edit - just looked. CBS and NBC both pay around $450 million a year for 10 games total.
That's still a huge jump from what Amazon is paying though.
 
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TheAbsolution said:
Its difficult to say with certainty how much CBS and NBC pay for TNF because they're packaged with the Sunday games but our closest comparison can be to ESPNs deal with MNF which costs them $1.9 Billion a year.
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That doesn't even remotely compare though as MNF was arguably the most well known NFL time slot when ESPN made that deal. No one watches TNF
 
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Nomadic Sparks

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Ninja Scooter said:
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.
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MNF is respectable trash that most people can enjoy

TNF are for fantasy football players fucking desperate for a fix

Someone please c*nt punt Jon Gruden into fucking orbit! He annoys the fuck out of me
 
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TheAbsolution said:
Its difficult to say with certainty how much CBS and NBC pay for TNF because they're packaged with the Sunday games but our closest comparison can be to ESPNs deal with MNF which costs them $1.9 Billion a year.

Edit - just looked. CBS and NBC both pay around $450 million a year for 10 games total.
That's still a huge jump from what Amazon is paying though.
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MNF and SNF are both considered primetime games, I think most fans know that TNF was added simply for the league to make additional revenue off another night of football. I think every player wish the NFL would abolish TNF because it can put them at an unfair advantage of recovery.
 
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C4Lukins

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Sounds more like the NFL landed a 50 million dollar deal. If you are really into the NFL, then you will have cable. Nobody is going to cut the cord to see ten random games a year. Not to mention that these games are broadcast whether you have cable or not. You can receive these games with rabbit ear antennas on your tv for free.
 
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volgihn

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Streaming the games on twitch might make them entertaining. Too bad this will only be available for prime members.
 
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Griss

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Man, I signed up for an amazon prime trial while trying to get a switch in the launch madness, forgot about it and got billed $99 for a whole year a month later - something I'll never, ever use as they don't deliver where I live.

I was pissed, but here comes some value out of the blue! Pretty delighted with this.
 
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As Amazon continues its 2017 season experiment as a National Football League partner, it saw a drop in total viewers for its Week 5 game between the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Compared to Week 4 on September 28 (Chicago-Green Bay), which drew 1.9 million combined viewers for the pregame show and actual game stream, the Week 5 contest drew 1.7 million combined viewers worldwide.

Even the game viewership went down, 1.6 million for Bears-Packers and 1.5 million for Pats-Bucs. But Amazon did get some good news for last week’s game.

The average worldwide audience that watched for at least 30 seconds for Pats-Bucs last week went up from the Bears-Packers game. The average audience for last week was 391,000 as compared to 372,000 from the inaugural stream.

In addition, Amazon received the biggest audience of those watching online. Other platforms that streamed the game included the NFL Mobile app for Verizon Wireless subscribers, Watch NFL Network, NFL app on Microsoft Windows, NFL Game Pass and the CBS All Access app. Overall, the combined average online audience was 525,000, so most of the online viewership was through Amazon.

It’s too early to tell if this is going to be a trend or just a one week aberration. Amazon will stream Philadelphia-Carolina tonight, and we’ll see how that turns out. Amazon is hoping that with the matchup of two NFC division leaders, it will draw a bigger audience than last week and it can build some upward momentum from there. It’s also worth noting that the company has multiple revenue streams here; they’re not just dependent on viewers and ads, but can also make money by selling viewers NFL-related products.

Overall, Amazon will stream 11 games from CBS and NBC under the Thursday Night Football package, and pay $50 million for it. Games that will air on NFL Network exclusively are not part of Amazon’s contract.
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http://awfulannouncing.com/nfl/amaz...wers-second-thursday-night-football-game.html
 
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WaffleTaco

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They probably should have announced this closer to football season as I had completely forgot. Still why pay $50 million to stream one game a week?
 
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Angry Grimace

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MugiwaraCole said:
Post of the fucking month.
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It would be post of the month if it hadn't been made 6 months ago

Also guys this already exists the thread is old (and necrobumped for no reason - just make a new thread)
 
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