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Amazon Planning Standalone App For Sports Content 48

Posted by BeauHD from the standalone-apps dept.
According to the Information, Amazon is working on a standalone app for watching sports content. Reuters reports: Sports remains one of the biggest attractions for live viewing as U.S. audiences increasingly switch from pay TV subscriptions to streaming apps. The move will likely complement Amazon's effort to double down on sports programming through its Prime Video service, a key channel to attract consumers to its shopping platform.

Amazon already owns the rights to stream games including National Football League's Thursday Night Football franchise and Premier League soccer matches in the UK, setting it up to better compete with sports streaming leader Walt Disney Co. It was not clear when Amazon would roll out the sports app and whether it would go through with the plan, according to the report.
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  • One more Amazon product I can ignore.

    You enjoy a sport? Go play it.

    You got kids or relatives playing sports? Go cheer them on.

    • Why do you feel that your opinion rates higher than literally tens of millions of other people who enjoy watching sports?

      If you don't, then don't. But just because you don't, it doesn't make you superior to them in some way. There's probably some other smug asshole out there that feels the same way about shit you enjoy doing too.

      Try this: do what you enjoy, and leave other people to do what they enjoy. And leave the judgement securely in the cesspool you call "thought".

      • Ask yourself "who benefits?" Pro sports is about making you the product. And about distracting from real problems - been true since the "bread and circuses" of ancient Rome.

        I'm not against sports - which is why I wrote that if people are into them, they should get away from the screen and actually participate at the local level. If you have something against that, it says more about you than me.

        • You didn't answer my question.

          Why do you think that your method of spending free time in the pursuit of enjoyment is superior to others? And why do you feel the need to be smug about it on the Internet?

          The introspection required to answer those two questions may even promote personal growth.

          • You didn't answer my question.

            Why do you think that your method of spending free time in the pursuit of enjoyment is superior to others? And why do you feel the need to be smug about it on the Internet?

            The introspection required to answer those two questions may even promote personal growth.

            That's your question, not mine. So, not my problem.

            But since you're too stupid/trolish to figure it out:

            1. 1 Better physical health - exercise improves overall health;
            2. 2 Better mental health - participating in group sports involves socializing;
            3. 3 Community building - participating in local sports actually builds community, rather than "rooting for athletes who don't even live in the community;"
            4. 4 Keeping spending in the community - money spent watching pro sport extracts money from the community. This is

            • None of that answers the two simple questions I asked. Instead, you're sticking your fingers in your ears and yelling LA LA LA while continuing to answer questions nobody asked.

              Conclusion: you're just being smug, because you seem to think you're better than other people for reasons that are completely baseless and only exist in your own addled mind.

              Your chosen form of entertainment is not better, or worse, than anyone else's. Neither is mine. But acting like it is confirms you are a smug douchebag withou

              • Your questions are YOUR problem. Not mine.

                I pointed out the physical, mental, and community benefits for my way.

                You can't show the same benefits for sitting around watching pro sports. So who's sticking their fingers in their ears and going "la-la-la?" You.

                The economic harm of pro sports to host cities is well documented. The same can be said for health problems from lack of exercise.

                So just how is your statement:

                Your chosen form of entertainment is not better, or worse, than anyone else's. Neither is mine.

                - true in any shape, manner, or form? Seems yours is worse, and you haven't even tried

      • Try living by a sporting stadium and having your commute home take an extra hour because assholes want to go buy $18 cokes in a shitty stadium during a work day. I'll note that the stadium went in 25 years after I was born here, so don't accuse me of being a post-facto nimby.

  • Thank F**k (Score:5, Insightful)

    by devslash0 ( 4203435 ) on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @08:33PM (#63165010)

    The amount of unwanted sports contents promoted on the main Amazon Prime Video app is unbearable. I was praying for this day for a long, long time.

    • In Soviet Russia f**k thanks YOU!

    • Too bad nothing will change to improve that. They'll just be advertising that you can get that content through their new app, as if anybody wanted yet another streaming app to deal with.

    • Re:Thank F**k (Score:4, Insightful)

      by DigitalSorceress ( 156609 ) on Thursday December 29, 2022 @07:46AM (#63165546)

      Hear, Hear!

      I "cut my cable" a long time ago, partly because of how much it cost per month for loads of channels I never watched (sports anything being a huge contributor to increased pricing for stuff I completely had no interest in)

      I think separating it out so that sports folks can pay the full cost of their sportsing and stop letting us non-sports folks vote with our dollars is a good thing.

      • There are enough choices for entertainment already/

        My smart TVs come with Samsung TV Plus - about 70-some-odd channels of old content. Right now I've got the Beverly Hillbillies running on one of them.

        There's also Tubi as a Smart TV app. And on the computer.

        And Pluto TV.

        And over-the-air TV with external cheapie antennas.

        And then there's video games.

        And of course various web sites.

        And email, text, voice, and video calls.

        And then there's walking the dog and other real-world stuff.

    • Agreed but i bet they'll just double down on ads for cross-promotion of THEIR NEW AND EXCITING SPORTING APPLICATION

  • There's media anti-siphoning laws where I live, so the top tier of most events are guaranteed to be available to FTA networks to bid on and host. You should get your politicians to look into something similar.

    Ditto for local content requirements.

  • When Bally sports goes bankrupt you can bet on Amazon to take over the regional sports networks it owns. Amazon will lose money in the short term but they are playing a long game here.

    • More than that, I think next year we're going to hear about Amazon making a very big 7-digit-per year bid on media rights to college sports from one of the "Power 5" conferences - the Pac-12. It would be a shot across the bow for the traditional media networks that make actually enjoying the games almost impossible by dictating start times that have the game ending past 1:00a in eastern time, or cable carriers that just flat refuse to carry the "Pac-12 Network" leaving fans with no possibility to see the g

  • Actually, Karl, it's sports. Let that stuff die and people might find more wholesome and interesting ways to spend their time.

    • Actually, Karl, it's sports. Let that stuff die and people might find more wholesome and interesting ways to spend their time.

      Turns out the masses can do multiple drugs at the same time - sports, religion, real drugs, social media ... they think they're "multi-tasking", but they're not very good at it.

    • Re: "Religion is the opiated of the masses." - Mar (Score:5, Insightful)

      by LindleyF ( 9395567 ) on Thursday December 29, 2022 @02:31AM (#63165380)
      Nerds love to act like sports are beneath them. I get it, I used to think that way. Then I realized how many layers go into them. The physical play. The playcaller duel. Misdirection. Trick plays. The trade market. Film study. Play design. Scheme concepts. Salary cap management. Roster building. Draft day dynamics. The multi-year, multi-million gamble each pick represents. Analytics. There's a ton of stuff to geek out over in sports, if you care to do so. That doesn't mean you have to like them, but don't look down on those who do.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by skam240 ( 789197 )

        To be fair I grew up playing multiple sports pretty hardcore throughout my entire childhood and am therefore completely aware of their depth meanwhile I get kind of bored watching them on TV and so have no interest in pro sports. Even at a Super Bowl party, I spend far more time out of the sports watching room eating snacks and socializing then I ever do watching the game.

        On the other hand I don't care what other people do with their leisure time as long as I'm not getting shit from them for pursuing "child

        • It helps to have a rooting interest. Watching two teams you don't care about isn't nearly as interesting as following one team all year. Investment. Plus, you get to enjoy the schadenfreude of watching the opposing fan base melt down on forums like this one as your team kicks their teams butts.

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by skam240 ( 789197 )

            It helps to have a rooting interest. Watching two teams you don't care about isn't nearly as interesting as following one team all year. Investment.

            I have plenty of local pro sports teams in my area to root for, many of them are often quite successful in fact (I live in Northern California, home of the 49ers, Giants, and The Warriors). Never the less watching pro sports on TV is just not for me as I derive no enjoyment from it.

            Plus, you get to enjoy the schadenfreude of watching the opposing fan base melt down on forums like this one as your team kicks their teams butts.

            Ugh, big no thankyou on that. Seems like pointless drama to me but to each their own of course.

    • You're right, and you know why? because Nietzsche said "God is dead."

      So people had no other best choice but to turn to sports.

      • God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

        His point -- referenci

  • I hope all the sports in the world will end up there and no longer annoy us people who think sports is something you DO instead of watching.

  • stand alone app means (Score:3)

    by renegade600 ( 204461 ) on Thursday December 29, 2022 @06:50AM (#63165498)

    knowing Amazon, the stand alone app could mean a stand alone subscription fee.

  • Maybe they'll stop telling me about football games via the prime video app now. I have never and will never watch a fucking football game, but they seem compelled to tell me about football at least once a week.
  • Sounds good. I'm not a football fan and I don't wanna see some ads and previews of these matches on my tv so I hope things change thanks to this decision. But I want to see more basketball and they must think about other sports too. That's my fav game I play since early childhood and thanks to this source https://gradesfixer.com/free-e... [gradesfixer.com] I even wrote a lot of study papers on this theme. So stop discriminating against other sports activities. Amazon is all in your hands.

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