NFL announces TV deals with ESPN/ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, Amazon
The NFL announced it has reached a new set of deals to keep games on ESPN/ABC, Fox, CBS, NBC, Amazon and NFL Network through the 2033 season.
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NFL announced new TV deal.
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Paramount Press Express | VIACOMCBS AND NFL REACH NEW LONG-TERM MULTIPLATFORM RIGHTS AGREEMENT THROUGH THE 2033 SEASON
All Games in Package to Be Broadcast on the CBS Television Network and Streamed on Paramount+ CBS Continues as Home of the AFC, Allowing for More Sunday A
The big change is that Thursday Night Football will be exclusively on Amazon Prime:
www.cnn.com
NFL signs more than $100 billion in media deals and gives Amazon exclusive games
The NFL is giving Amazon Prime Video exclusive rights to Thursday Night Football — part of its new 11-year deal with TV networks valued at more than $100 billion.
www.cnn.com
will Amazon run commercials during breaks? Do they think it might increase Prime memberships during the holiday shopping season?
"Fans in local markets will still be able to watch their teams the old fashioned way on TV." Foreign-based pirate streaming sites will be in high cotton sending games, ads -- and potentially malware -- to the devices of many more US users than ever before. No one seems to have been able to put all of those sites out of commission in the nearly two decades they've been around. I confess that there's one I use for big boxing matches occasionally.The big change is that Thursday Night Football will be exclusively on Amazon Prime:
NFL signs more than $100 billion in media deals and gives Amazon exclusive games
The NFL is giving Amazon Prime Video exclusive rights to Thursday Night Football — part of its new 11-year deal with TV networks valued at more than $100 billion.
Good questions. Given the expense, I'd say yes to both.
They ran commercials on the other games they broadcast.
And they have to provide breaks for the local stations carrying the feed.
Do we know who is producing these games? NFL Network again?
As mentioned in an expanded comment above, the Amazon deal maintains traditional tv broadcasts of the home markets on Thursday nights.
Yes, but who is producing those games. Amazon doesn't have an in house live sports production division.
In today's world you don't need a "live in house sports division." Everyone works free lance. You contract with the same people who do the games for everybody else. According to CNBC, Amazon will handle all production costs:
Amazon wants to be the exclusive provider of all Thursday NFL games starting in 2023
If the NFL gives Amazon exclusive Thursday game rights, it would be the first time a streaming service owned an exclusive package of games.
They could have one if they wanted. But if this is the only rights package they are pursuing, it would probably make more sense to hire a different crew in every city on a freelance basis.
The league won't allow that, they want consistency. NFL Network would must likely take over.
The NFL Network used the Fox Sports crew for their broadcasts. I don't know that they have their own technical crew either.
When TNF started in 2006 they had an in house crew. Once CBS took over they took over production.
In 2019, Fox Sports took over production.
CBS got the rights for a few years. Then they split the season with NBC. Fox got the rights outright in 2019.
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