CBS hopes to stream Super Bowl 44 online

[WoodysGirl]

Posted: April 18, 2009
Sporting News staff reports


CBS is trying to persuade the NFL to allow it to stream Super Bowl 44 online, according to Business Week.

The NFL made streams available for Sunday night games this season. NFL's senior vice-president for media strategy Brian Rolapp told the publication that 80 percent of viewers using online streams, which offered four alternate camera angles, did so as a complement to the main NBC coverage.

CBS streamed the 63 games of the recent NCAA Tournament to 7.5 million viewers, according to the report. In return, CBS made $30 million in advertising revenue.

"(The NFL) may say no. But there's night watchmen out there who can't get to a Super Bowl party," CBS Interactive president Quincy Smith told Business Week.

http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=540063

 

[Hostile]

I'd have to think they will get turned down flat.

 

[Az Lurker]

I hope they do it, last season I ended up having to watch a few games (including the superbowl) online. The second half all the commentary was in a slavic language of some sort on the only stream I could find.

 

[Chevyman08]

There are a few sites out there that stream NFL games now for free.

 

[windward]

This would be good as a backup plan. Last year, my Directv was getting a choppy feed from my NBC affiliate. They had moved where their transmisson came from that week and there were some issue. The first half was occasionally interrupted by a solid pink screen. Very annoying.

A quality feed provided by whatever network has the Super Bowl would be an excllent fallback in this situation and others who are not able to get to a TV.

 

[casmith07]

I'd pay good money to watch streaming Cowboys games online instead of having to sit in a sports bar, especially if they have the same quality of the NCAA tournament this year (for those of us that don't have DirecTV).