2023-01-07
Amazon's spin: • Lowest median age (47) for a full season since 2013 * Biggest median age gap between a stand-alone NFL package and the other packages (7 years younger). * Viewership in the 18-34 demo up 11%
Next TV
Amazon Prime Video averaged 9.6M viewers for its first season as the exclusive rights holder of the NFL's Thursday Night Football, down 41% from 2021's average
Daniel Frankel / Next TV :
2022-12-21
The NFL has no comment on this report by @JBFlint. https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Sources: the NFL is in advanced talks to give YouTube exclusive Sunday Ticket rights; a deal could be reached as early as December 21 after an NFL owner meeting
DirecTV currently pays for rights to subscription package that allows football fans to watch most Sunday afternoon games
2021-07-10
Apple is in “early talks” with the NFL for Sunday Ticket, according to this @sizpatel story. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
The Information
Sources: Apple has had discussions with NFL execs to buy streaming rights for Sunday Ticket games, which currently air on DirecTV
and it could be a game changer Michael Simon / Macworld : The NFL reportedly wants Apple to air NFL games in 2023 Deadline : Apple Exploring Streaming NFL's Sunday Ticket Games On ...
2021-05-27
Amazon's Spring Purchases MGM: $8.5 billion 10 years of Thursday Night Football: $12 billion https://twitter.com/...
CNBC
Amazon says it will acquire MGM Studios for $8.45B, its second-largest acquisition since it paid $13.7B for Whole Foods in 2017
they are laser-focused on expanding and entrenching their monopoly power. That's bad for workers, consumers, and small businesses. Josh Hawley / @hawleymo : This sale should not go...
Amazon's Spring Purchases MGM: $8.5 billion 10 years of Thursday Night Football: $12 billion https://twitter.com/...
Vox
With its MGM acquisition, Amazon doesn't want to compete with streamers like Netflix but reduce Prime subscriber churn by providing enough blockbuster content
Amazon isn't competing with Netflix, but it is spending billions trying to figure out Hollywood. Maybe 007 can help.