Amazon to spend $1B per year on Thurday night football

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Amazon to spend $1B per year on Thurday night football

Post by jebrick » Fri Mar 19, 2021 5:12 pm

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03 ... -football/
The NFL wrapped up its broadcast contract negotiations for the next eleven years, and a big winner was Amazon, which scored exclusive national rights to Thursday Night Football (TNF). Going forward, the NFL's weekly Thursday games will be exclusive to Amazon Prime Video, a big change for a package that was previously on terrestrial television or cable.

The deal runs from 2023 to 2033 and, according to a report from CNBC, will see Amazon pay $1 billion per year for the TNF package. Thursday Night Football is the NFL's newest and cheapest TV package, but the deal lets Amazon creep closer to parity with the NFL's other licensees, mainstream TV networks like Fox Sports, ABC/ESPN (Disney), CBS (Viacom), and NBC (Comcast). CNBC's report has the other four channels paying upward of $2 billion per year each, and unlike Amazon, the TV networks get to take turns airing the Super Bowl.


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Post by stillthere » Sat Mar 20, 2021 3:00 am

I am interested in what happens with that deal if Bezos buys the DC football team. Would that affect the contract? Is an owner allowed to be the broadcaster of the league?

That is what the weed has me thinking about as I zone out to some NCAA basketball in the background and clack away here and there online.

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Post by COR-TEN » Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:03 pm

stillthere wrote:
Sat Mar 20, 2021 3:00 am
I am interested in what happens with that deal if Bezos buys the DC football team. Would that affect the contract? Is an owner allowed to be the broadcaster of the league?

That is what the weed has me thinking about as I zone out to some NCAA basketball in the background and clack away here and there online.
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