Amazon gets Thursday night games, NFL nearly doubles TV deal
3 years, 9 months ago

Amazon gets Thursday night games, NFL nearly doubles TV deal

Associated Press  

Much like they did with cable in the 1980s and satellite television in the 1990s, the NFL on Thursday made another significant transition in the way its games are viewed. The league’s new rights agreements, worth $113 billion over the 11 seasons of the new deals that begin in 2023, include a streaming service receiving an exclusive full season package for the first time when Amazon Prime Video will be the home of 15 “Thursday Night Football” games. We want to provide our games on more platforms than ever before.” The new contracts also mean the NFL will nearly double its media revenue to more than $10 billion a season. ESPN+ will air one of the London games and NBC’s “Peacock” platform will also have one exclusive game per season for six years beginning in 2023. Not only does ABC return to the Super Bowl rotation for the first time since the 2005 season, but it finally gets those flex scheduling options for “Monday Night Football”.

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Lions comeback win over Packers draws 17.29 million viewers, an NFL streaming regular-season record
1 week, 6 days ago

Lions comeback win over Packers draws 17.29 million viewers, an NFL streaming regular-season record

The Independent  

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Amazon’s Black Friday NFL Game Is a Play to Keep You Paying for Prime
1 month ago

Amazon’s Black Friday NFL Game Is a Play to Keep You Paying for Prime

Bloomberg  

On Black Friday, Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service will carry an NFL game between the Las Vegas Raiders and Kansas City Chiefs. Both the NFL and the tech giant are hoping the Raiders and Chiefs can put on a better show than the Miami Dolphins and New York Jets did last year, when the Dolphins pounded the Jets 34-13 in …

NFL flexes Bengals-Chargers to ‘Sunday Night Football’ in Week 11 instead of Colts-Jets
1 month, 2 weeks ago

NFL flexes Bengals-Chargers to ‘Sunday Night Football’ in Week 11 instead of Colts-Jets

New York Times  

The NFL announced Monday it will flex the Week 11 game between the Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Chargers in California to NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” for an 8:20 p.m. As a result, the New York Jets will now host the Indianapolis Colts outside of prime time at 1 p.m. The flexed game with give each team back-to-back prime time …

ABC will air 6 additional 'Monday Night Football' games starting this week with Bills-Jets
2 months, 1 week ago

ABC will air 6 additional 'Monday Night Football' games starting this week with Bills-Jets

The Independent  

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Warner Bros. Discovery informs NBA it will match Amazon Prime Video’s offer to air games
5 months ago

Warner Bros. Discovery informs NBA it will match Amazon Prime Video’s offer to air games

Associated Press  

Turner Sports intends to continue its longtime relationship with the NBA. Discovery informed the league Monday that it will match the $1.8 billion per year offer by Amazon Prime Video. We look forward to the NBA executing our new contract.” The NBA’s Board of Governors approved the league’s 11-year media rights deals with Disney, NBC and Amazon Prime Video at …

NBA finalizes TV deals with ESPN, NBC, Amazon, but TNT could still match: Sources
5 months, 1 week ago

NBA finalizes TV deals with ESPN, NBC, Amazon, but TNT could still match: Sources

New York Times  

The NBA and network executives finalized contracts that will make NBC and Amazon Prime Video new partners, while maintaining ABC/ESPN as the home of the NBA Finals, under agreements that will extend for 11 seasons and be worth $76 billion, according to executives with direct knowledge of the deals. The NBA, TNT Sports, ESPN, NBC and Amazon declined to comment. …

What to know about ‘NFL Sunday Ticket’ case that could cost the league billions
5 months, 4 weeks ago

What to know about ‘NFL Sunday Ticket’ case that could cost the league billions

New York Times  

Nine years after “NFL Sunday Ticket” subscribers sued the league, alleging it broke antitrust laws, the trial for a case that could cost the NFL billions is underway in federal court. Until last season, DirecTV exclusively distributed “NFL Sunday Ticket” in the U.S., but the package moved exclusively to Google’s YouTube TV in 2023. The plaintiffs alleged the NFL and …

NFL’s late Sunday afternoon doubleheader window continues to get the most scrutiny and viewers
7 months, 1 week ago

NFL’s late Sunday afternoon doubleheader window continues to get the most scrutiny and viewers

Associated Press  

When the NFL schedule gets released, fans and commentators obsess over how many prime-time appearances teams will make. “We made it a point with the league that we wanted to establish a stronger narrative in September.” Besides the Chiefs, Berson also has some strong NFC matchups for the late window, including Dallas at Philadelphia on Nov. 10 — one of …

How can you watch your NFL team in 2024? Full guide of streaming, cable and TV schedule
7 months, 1 week ago

How can you watch your NFL team in 2024? Full guide of streaming, cable and TV schedule

New York Times  

The NFL’s season opener is still months away, but that doesn’t mean it’s too early for football fans to start planning their game day schedules. Sunday nights Weeks: 1-18 Where to watch: NBC NBC will continue to broadcast “Sunday Night Football,” the NFL’s season opener, and the prime-time Thanksgiving night game, under their 11-year extension signed in 2021. GO DEEPER …

Netflix will carry NFL games on Christmas Day for 3 years, including 2 this season
7 months, 1 week ago

Netflix will carry NFL games on Christmas Day for 3 years, including 2 this season

The Independent  

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Netflix to stream 2 NFL games on Christmas Day
7 months, 1 week ago

Netflix to stream 2 NFL games on Christmas Day

New York Times  

There’s a new Christmas tradition brewing: The NFL’s two Christmas Day games in 2024 will stream on Netflix, the streaming giant announced Wednesday. You can’t spell Netflix without “NFL” Netflix will be the home to watch the NFL’s 2024 Christmas Day games LIVE! Amazon Prime exclusively streams “Thursday Night Football” games, and NBC’s Peacock was the exclusive streamer for two …

Why NFL and ESPN decided to broadcast concurrent ‘Monday Night Football’ games in Week 14
1 year ago

Why NFL and ESPN decided to broadcast concurrent ‘Monday Night Football’ games in Week 14

New York Times  

The Athletic has live coverage of Packers vs. Giants and Dolphins vs. Titans on Monday Night Football. Welcome to Phase 3 of the NFL’s “Monday Night Football” viewership experiment this season. But recently, ESPN announced that it’s added “Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli,” or ManningCast for the less formal crowd, to air simultaneously on ESPN2. According to the …

How the NFL’s first-ever ‘Monday Night Football’ flex game came to be
1 year ago

How the NFL’s first-ever ‘Monday Night Football’ flex game came to be

New York Times  

Cover 7 | Friday A daily NFL destination that provides in-depth analysis of football’s biggest stories. This month marks a big milestone in North’s world: It’s the first-ever “Monday Night Football” game to be flexed, a byproduct of the media rights agreements between the league and its partners. As per the flexible schedule moves: The NFL can flex an unlimited …

Amazon and NFL hoping to establish a tradition with the first Black Friday game
1 year, 1 month ago

Amazon and NFL hoping to establish a tradition with the first Black Friday game

Associated Press  

It is not a stretch to say the Black Friday game between the Miami Dolphins and New York Jets is Amazon’s Super Bowl. Hans Schroeder, the executive vice president of NFL Media, said the league had been exploring the possibility of adding a game on Black Friday for a while. We’re excited about that.” Even though Amazon will highlight some …

ABC will air an additional 10 ‘Monday Night Football’ games because of writers and actors strikes
1 year, 3 months ago

ABC will air an additional 10 ‘Monday Night Football’ games because of writers and actors strikes

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — ABC will be airing more “Monday Night Football” games than originally planned. When the NFL schedule was announced in May, ABC had four exclusive regular-season games — including Monday night’s matchup between the Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers — and five being part of an ESPN simulcast. Last Monday’s game between the New York Jets and Buffalo …

ABC to add 10 ‘Monday Night Football’ games to its lineup: How this may impact MNF’s future
1 year, 3 months ago

ABC to add 10 ‘Monday Night Football’ games to its lineup: How this may impact MNF’s future

New York Times  

The Athletic has live coverage of Seahawks vs Giants on Monday Night Football. ABC will add 10 “Monday Night Football” simulcasts to its lineup this season, the network announced Monday. The only “Monday Night Football” games that will not be simulcast on ABC will be the New Orleans Saints at the Carolina Panthers on Sept. 18, the Los Angeles Rams …

Amazon Prime’s ‘Thursday Night Football’ is back. Will it be better?
1 year, 3 months ago

Amazon Prime’s ‘Thursday Night Football’ is back. Will it be better?

LA Times  

Amazon Prime Video demonstrated that streaming could handle TV-sized audiences as its first season as the exclusive home for NFL “Thursday Night Football” went on without any major technical glitches. The success of “Thursday Night Football” is key to Amazon’s aspirations to be a major player in live sports and growing the audience for the tech retail giant’s Prime Video …

Netflix is getting into live sports with Formula 1, but is it just a publicity stunt?
1 year, 6 months ago

Netflix is getting into live sports with Formula 1, but is it just a publicity stunt?

LA Times  

As Netflix built its giant library of content over the years, it invested heavily in original TV dramas, reality shows, big-budget movies and mobile games. The company is exploring a celebrity golf match in Las Vegas that would include Formula One drivers and professional golfers featured in Netflix sports documentary series “Drive to Survive” and “Full Swing.” Netflix and Vox …

Peacock takes the playoffs! NFL teams up with streaming service to air exclusive live games. All you need to know
1 year, 7 months ago

Peacock takes the playoffs! NFL teams up with streaming service to air exclusive live games. All you need to know

Hindustan Times  

The NFL playoffs are embracing the streaming era, as the league announced a groundbreaking partnership with Peacock. The NFL is taking another big step toward streaming by putting one of its playoff football games exclusively on a digital platform for the first time. Peacock Takes the Spotlight As a prominent streaming service, Peacock has secured the rights to broadcast the …

How can you watch your NFL team in 2023? Full guide of streaming, cable and TV schedule
1 year, 7 months ago

How can you watch your NFL team in 2023? Full guide of streaming, cable and TV schedule

New York Times  

As summer nears and NFL teams begin OTAs, the 2023 regular season is just around the corner. If you’re wondering how to catch all the action from Week 1 to the Super Bowl on TV or streaming online, we’ve got you covered: Sunday afternoons Weeks: 1-18 Where to watch: CBS, Fox, YouTube TV, ESPN+, NFL Network Among the major changes …

YouTube TV sets early prices, features for ‘Sunday Ticket’
1 year, 8 months ago

YouTube TV sets early prices, features for ‘Sunday Ticket’

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — With five months until kickoff, YouTube TV announced on Tuesday prices and some of the features it is planning in its first season as the home of “NFL Sunday Ticket.” Early-season pricing for current YouTube TV subscribers will range from $249 to $289 while it will be $349 to $389 for non-subscribers who will access it through …

YouTube unveils NFL Sunday Ticket pricing details; no single-game, team options
1 year, 8 months ago

YouTube unveils NFL Sunday Ticket pricing details; no single-game, team options

New York Times  

The pricing for the first season of NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube has finally been revealed. In the final season of DirectTV’s 28-year run, Sunday Ticket cost $300 and up to $400 bundled with the satellite carrier’s version of RedZone. After $100 presale discounts expire, YouTube TV will charge $349 for Sunday Ticket and $389 with RedZone; the cost on …

NFL ‘Sunday Ticket’ headed to YouTube beginning next season
2 years ago

NFL ‘Sunday Ticket’ headed to YouTube beginning next season

Associated Press  

Fans will have to Google it beginning next season if they want to access the NFL’s “Sunday Ticket” package. The NFL announced an agreement on Thursday for Google to distribute the package of out-of-market Sunday afternoon games on YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channels. Besides Amazon, Apple and ESPN also expressed interest in “NFL Sunday Ticket.” “As the ways fans …

NFL 'Sunday Ticket' headed to YouTube beginning next season
2 years ago

NFL 'Sunday Ticket' headed to YouTube beginning next season

The Independent  

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Google lands the NFL’s Sunday Ticket package for YouTube TV
2 years ago

Google lands the NFL’s Sunday Ticket package for YouTube TV

LA Times  

The official NFL logo is seen on the back of a hat in Los Angeles on July 21, 2020. In a move that further deepens the tech industry’s move into streaming live televised sports, the NFL has awarded the rights to its Sunday Ticket package to Google. The NFL and the Mountain View, Calif., company announced Thursday that the package, …

AP sources: YouTube TV front-runner for NFL “Sunday Ticket”
2 years ago

AP sources: YouTube TV front-runner for NFL “Sunday Ticket”

Associated Press  

YouTube TV has emerged as the favorite to land the NFL’s “Sunday Ticket” package of out-of-market games, but the sides have not finalized a deal, two people with knowledge of the negotiations said Tuesday evening. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report that YouTube TV, owned by Google, was the front-runner for the package that allows fans to …

YouTube is planning to acquire rights for NFL Sunday Ticket: Know-why?
2 years ago

YouTube is planning to acquire rights for NFL Sunday Ticket: Know-why?

India TV News  

YouTube, a Google's owned video-sharing platform has been reportedly talking with National Football League about acquiring exclusive rights for the Sunday Ticket, which is a subscription-only package. The ticket allows football fans to watch most Sunday afternoon games, said a media report. Earlier this week, Apple backed out of a deal to secure the rights to the NFL Sunday Ticket …

‘Black Friday’ football? NFL, Prime Video add game for day after Thanksgiving in 2023
2 years, 2 months ago

‘Black Friday’ football? NFL, Prime Video add game for day after Thanksgiving in 2023

New York Times  

Get ready “Black Friday” shoppers. The NFL announced Tuesday its plans to schedule the first-ever “Black Friday” game, which will be streamed on Prime Video. “Thanksgiving is synonymous with football and we’re excited to give our fans another day of NFL action during this holiday weekend,” NFL Media chief operating officer Hans Schroeder said in a statement. “Amazon is uniquely …

Amazon’s Prime Video gets exclusive rights to NFL ‘Black Friday’ game in 2023
2 years, 2 months ago

Amazon’s Prime Video gets exclusive rights to NFL ‘Black Friday’ game in 2023

LA Times  

The NFL is adding a day-after-Thanksgiving game to its schedule in 2023, and it will stream exclusively on Amazon’s Prime Video. The addition of the “Black Friday” game to Amazon’s package of streamed NFL contests is a vote of confidence in Prime Video’s performance as a media partner. In its first year as the exclusive home of “Thursday Night Football,” …

Prime Video’s ‘Thursday Night Football’ is a fountain of youth for the NFL
2 years, 2 months ago

Prime Video’s ‘Thursday Night Football’ is a fountain of youth for the NFL

LA Times  

Al Michaels, left, and Kirk Herbstreit will be in Prime Video’s booth for “Thursday Night Football.” Amazon is making good on its promise to bring younger viewers to the NFL. Nielsen data for the first four “Thursday Night Football” contests on the tech giant’s Prime Video streaming platform shows they’re drawing a larger percentage of 18- to 34-year-olds than NFL …

Prime Video averages 15.3M viewers in its NFL season opener
2 years, 3 months ago

Prime Video averages 15.3M viewers in its NFL season opener

The Independent  

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Ready, set, stream — a new NFL era begins Thursday
2 years, 3 months ago

Ready, set, stream — a new NFL era begins Thursday

NPR  

Ready, set, stream — a new NFL era begins Thursday Enlarge this image toggle caption Jamie Squire/Getty Images; Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire/Getty Images Jamie Squire/Getty Images; Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire/Getty Images Imagine this scene tonight. "For years and years, the NFL distributed its games over broadcast television," said Alex Riethmiller, Communications VP for the league, "whether it on CBS, NBC, Fox, or …

Can Al Michaels make streaming the NFL on Amazon Prime Video a Thursday night ritual?
2 years, 3 months ago

Can Al Michaels make streaming the NFL on Amazon Prime Video a Thursday night ritual?

LA Times  

Veteran sports broadcaster Al Michaels has a 20-year-old answering machine in his Brentwood home, and it will likely never be thrown out. This week, he joins Kirk Herbstreit in the broadcast booth for Amazon Prime Video’s “Thursday Night Football,” the opening contest in the first NFL TV package shown exclusively on a streaming video service. For Amazon, whose Culver City …

How to watch ‘Thursday Night Football’ on Amazon Prime Video
2 years, 3 months ago

How to watch ‘Thursday Night Football’ on Amazon Prime Video

LA Times  

A new era in TV sports begins this week when Amazon Prime Video becomes the exclusive home of the NFL’s “Thursday Night Football.” Based on the ratings potency of NFL contests, they will likely be the most streamed live events ever. If you have an Amazon Prime membership, you already have access to Prime Video and “Thursday Night Football.” If …

B1G deal: Big Ten lands $7 billion, NFL-style TV contracts
2 years, 4 months ago

B1G deal: Big Ten lands $7 billion, NFL-style TV contracts

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The Big Ten’s new $7 billion media rights deal will string the conference’s top football games across three major networks each week, creating an NFL-style television schedule on Saturdays. The Big Ten announced Thursday it has reached seven-year agreements with Fox, CBS and NBC to share …

Amazon wants its NFL coverage to come in different flavors
2 years, 4 months ago

Amazon wants its NFL coverage to come in different flavors

Live Mint  

Amazon.com Inc. is looking to draw in new audiences to its “Thursday Night Football" coverage by having a group of guys known for their comedy routines and trick shots call some of its games. Walt Disney Co.’s ESPN had success with its alternate “Monday Night Football" telecast last season on ESPN2, co-hosted by brothers and former NFL quarterbacks Peyton and …

Will live sports disappear from traditional TV?
2 years, 5 months ago

Will live sports disappear from traditional TV?

LA Times  

Seattle Sounders midfielder Ethan Dobbelaere, left, and LA Galaxy defender Emiliano Insua keep the ball in play during the first half of an MLS soccer match Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, in Carson. It follows Amazon’s deal to shell out $1 billion a year for exclusive rights to NFL’s “Thursday Night Football” after the company shared it with broadcast TV networks …

Al Michaels will handle play-by-play duties for Amazon’s ‘Thursday Night Football’
2 years, 9 months ago

Al Michaels will handle play-by-play duties for Amazon’s ‘Thursday Night Football’

LA Times  

Al Michaels, shown in 2018, will be the play-by-play voice of Amazon’s “Thursday Night Football” livestream telecasts next season. Veteran play-by-play announcer Al Michaels and longtime ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit have signed on to handle Amazon Prime’s “Thursday Night Football” telecasts, the tech giant announced Wednesday. Michaels has called 11 Super Bowls across the two networks and is part of …

Joe Buck’s move to ESPN, the fallout and opportunity for Fox Sports and more media notes
2 years, 9 months ago

Joe Buck’s move to ESPN, the fallout and opportunity for Fox Sports and more media notes

New York Times  

You are forgiven if you don’t remember 2002 as one of the craziest times in NFL broadcasting history. In a move that has now had reverberations at multiple networks, Aikman has moved from Fox to ESPN to become the network’s new lead analyst on “Monday Night Football.” As The Athletic wrote a couple of weeks ago, industry sources confirmed that …

NFL ratings soar 10 percent during 2021 regular season
2 years, 11 months ago

NFL ratings soar 10 percent during 2021 regular season

Daily Mail  

The NFL continued its Nielsen ratings domination during the 2021 regular season, as audience size jumped 10 percent while fans consumed a whopping 370 billion minutes of professional football thanks to an additional week of games. The 272 regular-season games averaged 17.1 million viewers across television and digital platforms - a 10 percent increase over 2020 and is the league's …

NBC dominates in premiere week for TV’s broadcast networks
3 years, 2 months ago

NBC dominates in premiere week for TV’s broadcast networks

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — NBC opened the new television season with a dominant week against its rivals, and it wasn’t just football that was responsible. NBC averaged 6.6 million viewers for the week in prime time, compared to second-place CBS’ 4.4 million average. ABC’s “World News Tonight” led the evening news ratings race with an average of 8 million viewers. NBC’s …

Sources: NFL prefers Apple for Sunday Ticket; package could offer more choices
3 years, 3 months ago

Sources: NFL prefers Apple for Sunday Ticket; package could offer more choices

New York Times  

The NFL’s much-discussed Sunday Ticket package is in the news of late, with one report having Amazon as the lead contender to acquire the out-of-market games that are up for bid, while another touts Disney’s ESPN empire as interested. So I can see how the league might view that as a great diversification to their portfolio for the next decade.” …

Amazon cloud technology aids NFL in schedule making
3 years, 7 months ago

Amazon cloud technology aids NFL in schedule making

Associated Press  

The process of building the NFL schedule used to be a painstaking one with executives such as Val Pinchbeck spending months slotting the games one by one on his board until there was a final product for the commissioner to approve. The 272-game schedule the NFL released on Wednesday took a completely different journey to completion with computers from Amazon …

NFL’s era of free TV is starting to wilt. The streaming age of football is here
3 years, 9 months ago

NFL’s era of free TV is starting to wilt. The streaming age of football is here

New York Times  

The NFL’s TV deals are done. The league announced new contracts with CBS, Fox, NBC and ESPN/ABC on Thursday and also agreed to a deal with Amazon to make its Prime streaming service the exclusive home of “Thursday Night Football.” As part of the deals — which lock in revenues for the NFL of more than $100 billion through the …

NFL nearly doubles fees for TV rights; Amazon to get exclusive games for streaming
3 years, 9 months ago

NFL nearly doubles fees for TV rights; Amazon to get exclusive games for streaming

LA Times  

Tampa Bay Buccaneers nose tackle Steve McLendon pressures Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes during the first half of the NFL Super Bowl game Feb. 7 in Tampa, Fla. The NFL has agreed to a new media rights deal that will keep the vast majority of its games on the broadcast TV networks and ESPN through 2033 but that will …

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