Amazon To Get Exclusive NFL Games as Part of New Streaming Deal (bloomberg.com) 18
The National Football League is giving Amazon exclusive rights to live games for the first time, marking a deeper push by streaming services into sports. From a report: The league announced Wednesday that it would select a Saturday game in the coming season and give Amazon the sole rights to show it outside of the two teams' home markets. The NFL schedules a handful of Saturday games late in its season, when college football's regular season is over. Amazon will also have an exclusive game in 2021 and 2022. It's part of a new three-year extension of the Thursday-night partnership between the tech giant and the world's richest sports league. Amazon and its Twitch platform will continue to have nonexclusive rights to 11 Thursday-night games a season through 2022. Those games, which are also televised on Fox and the NFL Network, will be available to Amazon Prime subscribers in more than 200 countries and territories.
They need to be doing a whole lot more to compete (Score:2)
The NFL needs to drop their deal with DirecTV and allow for full streaming of all games, especially out of market games, without blackouts.
Most people no longer have cable and broadcast is spotty at best for most. Sure, I could potentially watch my local market team on broadcast TV, if I had a rooftop antenna, but being I live under home regulations which forbid them, I am stuck streaming.
With the availability of free HD streams from users, many of which are better than anything I've seen elsewhere, includi
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Most people no longer have cable ...
[citation needed]
Anecdotal, but 99.9% of everyone I know has cable or some equivalent, like FiOS.
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Most people no longer have cable and broadcast is spotty at best for most.
Over two thirds of households still have cable TV subscriptions, and only about 40% of people without cable ever had cable before. So you are talking just over 10% of households which would have trouble seeing some NFL games if they wanted to. And that is a big IF, since anecdotally I have found most cord-cutters aren't big sports fans since they probably would still have cable if they were.
This is a no-brainer and a terrible business decision by ALL professional sports, especially the NFL and MLB, and they need to get their shit together.
My guess is they have their own business analysts going over the numbers, and they disagree with you. Forcing around 7
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My guess is they have their own business analysts going over the numbers, and they disagree with you.
My guess is the bulk of their business model is built around the receipt of carriage fees paid by cable subscribers, and their business analysts have no idea how to move on from that - so they've chosen to bury their heads in the sand and pretend cable cutting isn't a thing.
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SiliconDust HD Homerun of some type. https://www.silicondust.com/pr... [silicondust.com] Use their app. It has a guide. Or you can watch with VLC for instance. Kodi also works. Just plug it into you wifi router. Base model has 2 turners. The large one has 4.
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... if I had a rooftop antenna, but being I live under home regulations which forbid them, I am stuck streaming.
Most laws, regulations, and restrictions purporting to prohibit rooftop antennas are illegal under 47 CFR 1.4000 [cornell.edu], which, as a federal regulation, preempts most state and local laws (and even prohibits HOAs from imposing restrictions). Unless you happen to be in a Historic Place (as defined in federal law) or there are safety regulations prohibiting anything of similar size and weight (or certain other special circumstances), you cannot be prevented from putting up an antenna on property that is for your exc
I prefer movies (Score:2)
Like right now I'm watching the new SF movie:
"No close encounters of any kind.'
No contact sports (Score:1)
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Leagues will soon have a new rule on fouls. Violators will be quarantined. Might work for basketball and baseball.
On the up side, quarantine is more exciting than Baseball. Oh, you meant for the the players. Still ...
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Or skip all that and play beach volleyball at home with beautiful girls [wikipedia.org] without violating social distancing guidelines.
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So the usual routine for us Slashdot readers, eh?
Hope they have past games available (Score:2)
I hope they make past games available. Amazon has had Thursday night NFL for a while. I always forget to watch. I would watch it if they made it available to watch any time after it originally aired.
I watched the heck out of the NFL highlights on youtube this last season. That was about the only way I could watch any football, outside of going to someone's house and watching it OTA. Actually, these highlights are pretty good, no commercials and a complete game in around 15 minutes.
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The easiest way to watch an NFL game is to get your lawn chair on your roof and look in the direction of Frank's house. His 2000" TV is easily visible from within half a mile.
commercial customers? Will they still get the game (Score:2)
commercial customers? Will they still get the games on Directv?
Not only that (Score:4, Funny)
But with the social distancing guidelines in place, Amazon will be streaming actual NFL players playing NES Play Action Football, live!
Also outside the US? (Score:2)
Or is it the usual deal where business people still don't get that borders are meaningless on the internet?
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