This is foolishness. If they NFL gives the bulk of the games to some pay service they know that will be the end of the NFL. People aren't go to pay extra to watch their team play. Even if this pandemic ends soon it's going to take more than a month or so for the vast majority of people to get caught up financially. To get any of those companies like Amazon Prime or Netfix or other companies like that they first have to have cable or a dish and then pay even more to get those companies. Cable and dish companies have been losing customers because people are short on money with not working. The ONLY way the NFL will survive is if the vast bulk of their games are on a network that doesn't cost the customer anything to watch their games. I had DirecTV for years and I got injured and was off work for 5 months and I had to make some decisions so I cancelled DirecTV. This was about 5 years ago and I haven't gotten it back and don't plan to either. And no I don't have cable either.
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ROFL that's completely untrue.
The NFL made a killng on NFL Sunday Ticket.
That's a service people had to pay for on top of cable which was over 100 a month on average.
It's 2020 and people use apps.
The NFL will likely give someone's app a massive boost.
And local games will still be shown over the air.
That will just be purchased from a streamer who has world wide rights or sold separately by NFL.
In a potential sign of streams to come,
Amazon Prime Video and
Twitch will be the only places where viewers will be able to see an
NFL game on December 26.
https://deadline.com/2020/11/nfl-ga...rime-video-and-twitch-in-december-1234623168/
The San Francisco 49ers-Arizona Cardinals contest will be part of a Saturday tripleheader on the day after Christmas, with the NFL Network having exclusive broadcast rights to the day’s two other games. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Detroit Lions will meet at 1PM ET and the Miami Dolphins will visit the Las Vegas Raiders at 8:15PM ET. The day’s middle game, at 4:30PM, will stream exclusively on Amazon as well as on its gaming-focused platform, Twitch.
The move is not the first
streaming-centric one by the NFL. It had previously announced a wild card playoff game will be played in January, with NBCUniversal streaming platform Peacock having streaming rights and NBCU’s Telemundo controlling broadcast rights. The experiment follows similar ones by the league, which has put games on Twitter and Yahoo, sometimes on an exclusive basis.
Amazon has been established as a streaming partner for the NFL on Thursday nights, signing a multi-year agreement to complement Fox’s linear broadcasts. According to initial data, the streams have not yielded blockbuster numbers for Amazon, but as overall viewing continues to shift toward streaming, the NFL is increasingly interested in positioning itself accordingly.
Major rights deals with league broadcast partners are coming up for renewal in 2022 at a point when linear ratings continue to erode and tech giants like Google, Amazon and Apple continue to dominate the business landscape. Despite the scope and success of tech companies and their inroads in sports, most analysts expect incumbent rights holders to retain their rights, even at an expected hike in valuation.
Also on Monday, ABC and ESPN said their “Megacast” plan – a roadblock-style, multi-network broadcast pattern activated for the NFL Draft in the spring and Monday Night Football in September, would return for the NFL playoffs in January. A game in the wild-card round will be broadcast by Freeform, a move similar to one announced last spring by ViacomCBS to simulcast a playoff game on Nickelodeon along with CBS. In both cases, separate announcing teams will be deployed, with the Disney networks promising more details on the Freeform setup in the coming weeks.