NFL Launches (mobile) Streaming Platform

Post Reply

Will you sign up for this service?

1. Hell, yeah!
0
No votes
2. We will see how it looks.
0
No votes
3. F*ck that.
1
50%
4. I'm still too mad about Malik McDowell
1
50%
 
Total votes: 2

auroraave
Posts: 1748
Joined: Wed May 01, 2019 9:35 pm
Location: Beverly Hills, Ca.

NFL Launches (mobile) Streaming Platform

Post by auroraave » Mon Jul 25, 2022 1:46 pm

Formerly, Yahoo owned these rights - interesting to see the NFL diving hard into streaming - a no brainer. Very curious to see if Amazon will continue to push for more games, considering the potential cost - when factoring in the hit their stock has taken lately. I am guessing they will begin advertising on the games to offset costs. Streaming services are taking a hit these days - they seem to have peaked - now the question is the ability to sustain and find growth in a saturated market. Some are already prepping new 'tiers' where one tier has adds for a cheaper subscription rate, ad free versions will, naturally, be more expensive. Streaming game is already changing quickly - already moving right back towards the net/cabler formats of being ad-driven, in addiiton to subscription based. Yikes. Shit's about to hit the fan in the streaming world.

https://deadline.com/2022/07/nfl-expand ... 9508b0fc06
The NFL has launched a league-branded subscription streaming outlet featuring live mobile rights once controlled by Verizon.
NFL+, as the new service is known, is available in two versions. The basic one costs $5 a month (or $40 a year), while the premium tier
is $10 a month, or $80 a year.
The basic tier offers live local and primetime games on mobile devices and tablets as well as live out-of-market preseason games. It also
features live game audio (with feeds for both opposing teams’ announcers as well as national ones) and library programming. NFL+
Premium adds ad-free game replays, in both full and condensed form, as well as “coaches film” and the “all-22” look, which shows every
player on the field.

Reports of the streaming venture began circulating after league owners met in May. The NFL, like other major sports entities is putting
more and more of its live game inventory on streaming services. In September, the league will begin a decade-long exclusive deal for
Thursday night games with Amazon’s Prime Video. Its long-term renewals with other longtime partners include significant streaming
components.

The setup for NFL+ follows ones in years past with Verizon and Yahoo, which had offered NFL livestreams and other programming to
laptops and mobile devices. (Verizon last year re-upped with the league as a partner but shifted from live streams to providing telecom
and broadband service in stadiums.) With the new service coming online, NFL Game Pass, which had offered replays (but not
livestreams) of full games on a subscription basis, will no longer be available in the U.S.

The limited batch of in-market rights captured by NFL+ are not to be confused with those of NFL Sunday Ticket, the full slate of weekly
games offered nationally as an exclusive since 1994 by DirecTV. With the current Sunday Ticket contract set to expire after the coming
season, Amazon and Apple are understood to be making aggressive plays for that package, which is expected to net the league more than
$2 billion a year.


NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, during a visit to the Allen & Co. conference earlier this month in Sun Valley, confirmed that Sunday
Ticket is “moving to a streaming service,” saying specifics would be revealed this fall. Given broadband access and viewership
demographics around the U.S., it is also a distinct possibility that DirecTV or another linear operator will remain a stakeholder in
Sunday Ticket.

In a press release, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell called the NFL+ launch a notable day in the league’s history. “The passionate and
dedicated football fans are the lifeblood of the NFL, and being able to reach and interact with them across multiple platforms is
incredibly important to us,” he said. “We look forward to continuing to grow NFL+ and deepening our relationship with fans across all
ages and demographics, providing them access to a tremendous amount of NFL content, including the most valuable content in the
media industry: live NFL games.”

User avatar
Sibelius Hindemith
Posts: 11260
Joined: Thu May 02, 2019 3:09 am
Location: Seattle

Re: NFL Launches (mobile) Streaming Platform

Post by Sibelius Hindemith » Mon Jul 25, 2022 3:20 pm

You left out "Everything is rigged so forget it" as a poll option. ;)

Post Reply