{"id":3370,"date":"2017-04-09T15:07:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T22:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2017-04-09T15:07:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T22:07:22","slug":"nfls-thursday-night-football-moving-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=3370","title":{"rendered":"NFL\u2019s Thursday Night Football is moving to Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NFL\u2019s one-year experiment with Twitter is\u00a0over. The league started streaming Thursday Night Football games on the social network last year, but this year it\u2019s going to Amazon thanks to a $50 million deal it struck with the online\u00a0giant.<\/p>\n

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Originally, the NFL signed on with Twitter for a $10 million deal last year, but Amazon\u2019s $50 million deal was enough to secure the rights to live stream ten Thursday Night Football games for the upcoming 2017 season. That means Amazon is paying an average of $5 million for each game it streams.\u00a0Business is booming for the NFL.<\/p>\n

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The move is a great addition for Amazon, who has been seeking to expand its TV offering for its Prime service.<\/p>\n

According to a report from\u00a0Recode<\/em><\/a>, Amazon is reportedly considering selling ads during the NFL streams and promoting its own services. This could\u00a0be a step toward Amazon recouping on\u00a0its investment.<\/p>\n

This doesn\u2019t really make it easier to watch NFL games<\/h3>\n

The NFL is basking\u00a0in its $50 million deal with Amazon, but the new deal doesn\u2019t really help fans watch NFL games. The $10 million deal with Twitter made Thursday Night Football available to anybody with a Twitter account, which is free. The deal with Amazon only works for Amazon Prime subscribers, but that costs $100 per year. That\u2019s probably cheaper than a cable subscription, but its only for ten games and Thursday Night Football doesn\u2019t feature the best match-ups or quality\u00a0games.<\/p>\n

The move doesn\u2019t make the NFL more accessible, but it does make the NFL more money.<\/p>\n

MAC WORLD<\/a> WIKIMEDIACOMMONS<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The NFL\u2019s one-year experiment with Twitter is\u00a0over. The league started streaming Thursday Night Football games on the social network last year, but this year it\u2019s going to Amazon thanks to a $50 million deal it struck with the online\u00a0giant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-streaming-media","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}