How I learned to stop worrying and love Thursday Night Football
A former skeptic is fully embracing Amazon's maiden voyage as an exclusive national broadcaster of the NFL.
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Amazon confident Prime Video can handle Thursday Night Football traffic: ‘I don’t think there’s any company more prepared.’
“I don’t think there’s any company more prepared than we are to handle that type of scale and that type of challenge.”
Amazon reportedly nearing deal with NBC to produce Thursday Night Football broadcasts
Would NBC's involvement bring Al Michaels, Maria Taylor, and... Peyton Manning?
Amazon renews Thursday Night Football streaming deal for three seasons, will get one exclusive Saturday telecast
The Amazon-exclusive telecast will only be allowed on free, over-the-air TV in the markets playing in that game.
Twitter, Amazon, YouTube, and Verizon are bidding for Thursday Night Football streaming rights, multiyear deal expected
Four companies are still reportedly in the hunt for TNF streaming rights, which could give the NFL a big payday. But there are questions about just how interested Amazon is in retaining those rights.
Overwatch League’s opening day outdrew Amazon’s streams of Thursday Night Football, but that’s not apples-to-apples
The per-minute audience of 408,000 for Overwatch League's opening day beat Amazon's per-minute audience for TNF, both for individual games and for the whole season. But it didn't beat the total TNF streaming numbers, and it's worth keeping in mind the vast differences between the products.
Tiki Barber, Curtis Stone, Tommy Smyth to hawk products on Amazon’s QVC-style TNF pre-game show
Are you ready...to buy some ultimate tailgate products?
Amazon will reportedly charge massive sums for Thursday Night Football ad packages
The $2.8 million asking price is reportedly roughly six times what networks charge, but the packages will include additional options.
Analyst: Twitter took in $50 million in revenue on NFL deal, made $15 million profit
Twitter apparently made a lot of money off their NFL streaming deal.
Twitter has heavy competition for Thursday Night Football streaming rights
Twitter COO Anthony Noto: streaming NFL, other sports “has helped us drive distribution”
Twitter’s $10 million deal to stream 10 Thursday Night Football games resulted in an acceptable interface (albeit one...
