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The NFL is bringing a new meaning to "prime time."
 
After a run with Twitter in 2016, the league's Thursday night prime-time games are moving to Amazon Prime, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The site and the league have agreed to partner on a deal for the rights to stream 10 Thursday Night Football games, per the report.
 

 

Available to Prime members for free, everyone else pays. Well, at least I can watch Thursday night football next season. 

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Amazon is gonna take the whole country over you watch. I think they're only scratching the surface.

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Available to Prime members for free, everyone else pays. Well, at least I can watch Thursday night football next season. 

 

This is good news for me.  I have Prime and don't get NFLN.  But from what I remember, most Thursday night games were on network television last season anyway.

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Amazon is gonna take the whole country over you watch. I think they're only scratching the surface.

As long as I can keep buying paper towels, toilet paper and trash bags in super bulk I'm happy. I loathe Walmart more than I do the Titans. 

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As long as I can keep buying paper towels, toilet paper and trash bags in super bulk I'm happy. I loathe Walmart more than I do the titans.

Payless shoes just filed for bankruptcy. They can thank Amazon as well as Radioshack.


And we must never capitalize the T in titns.

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Payless shoes just filed for bankruptcy. They can thank Amazon as well as Radioshack.


And we must never capitalize the T in titns.

 

I don't think I can buy shoes online, unless I've already tried them on.

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This is good news for me.  I have Prime and don't get NFLN.  But from what I remember, most Thursday night games were on network television last season anyway.

 

If it is like last year, the games only on NFL Network (there were only a handful) were not streamed on Twitter. 

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So are people going to whine and cry about this like they did Yahoo streaming the London game?

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IT WAS ALWAYS THE JAGS

Payless shoes just filed for bankruptcy. They can thank Amazon as well as Radioshack.


And we must never capitalize the T in titns.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of Big Box stores of any kind to include cyber stores, but in my small town there aren't a lot of options for anything so I use Amazon quite a bit for things I can't get here. I couldn't buy shoes, clothes and stuff like that online. I have to try them on and walk around. We buy mostly household goods in bulk since I would rather wear a titans jersey to a Jags game than go to walmart. That's how much I hate that place. 

 

And yes, I agree about never capitalizing the "t". It's a habit.

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If it is like last year, the games only on NFL Network (there were only a handful) were not streamed on Twitter. 

The 10 TNF matchups will also continue to be broadcast on live television in a package that is split between CBS, NBC and NFL Network, with the latter simulcasting games broadcast on either CBS or NBC.

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Amazon is gonna take the whole country over you watch. I think they're only scratching the surface.

 

Eh, this is really a play for Prime Memberships, at 99 dollars is a hell of an expensive subscription fee .. showing us that people are ready to pay for premium streaming services and unbundle from Comcast, Verizon, etc. 

 

The market is ready for a disruptor 

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Eh, this is really a play for Prime Memberships, at 99 dollars is a hell of an expensive subscription fee .. showing us that people are ready to pay for premium streaming services and unbundle from Comcast, Verizon, etc.


The market is ready for a disruptor

Not any more expensive than Netflix of Hulu. They're letting you pay monthly now too.


99/12= $8.25. Same as the others. Hell I pay $15 for Hulu without commericals


Plus you get the free shipping with Prime. Buy a couple things online and it pays for itself. I actually think Prime is a great deal.

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IT WAS ALWAYS THE JAGS

Eh, this is really a play for Prime Memberships, at 99 dollars is a hell of an expensive subscription fee .. showing us that people are ready to pay for premium streaming services and unbundle from Comcast, Verizon, etc.


The market is ready for a disruptor

$99 a year for free two day shipping on almost everything, streaming video service included, some streaming music included, as well as other perks that I'm not even listing is too much money?


Tough customer...

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Coughlin when asked if winning will be a focus: "What the hell else is there? This is nice and dandy, but winning is what all this is about."

$99 a year for free two day shipping on almost everything, streaming video service included, some streaming music included, as well as other perks that I'm not even listing is too much money?

Tough customer...

Meh. I can usually find a better price on ebay or elsewhere with free shipping. Anyway most items if you spend 35 or over are free shipping anyway, plus Amazon charges sales tax now. No tax was one of the initial draws of online shopping.


Streaming, I can find it elsewhere. Eh amazon is just walmart online americus.


I agree the market is ready for a disruptor.

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I have prime, but I actually kind of liked it with twitter, it fitted that platform naturally imo.  Not to mention that was probably some of the best live stream i've come across, I guess we'll see how amazon does. 

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$99 a year for free two day shipping on almost everything, streaming video service included, some streaming music included, as well as other perks that I'm not even listing is too much money?


Tough customer...

 

I have no issue with that, I'm saying that Amazon's bigger goal here is to reach the NFL market that is dominated by men and brings more men to their marketplace. As it stands, Amazon's shoppers are around 55% female, despite males owning 51% of prime memberships. The streaming should add enough subscribers that really just want to stream NFL games and not necessarily take advantage of the other services a prime membership includes. That's why I made the comment about a $99 Subscription fee.

 

Amazon has UPS by the stones right now. Amazon is paying so little for their shipping while charging sellers for a portion of those costs that you could order probably over a hundred items on Amazon in a year and Amazon would still profit just from your subscription fee. Impressive.

 

That really is beside what I'm getting at. What is at stake is the bundled cable market, especially on the sports broadcasting side.. whereas nobody used to be able to compete with FOX, CBS, ESPN, ETC for broadcasting rights. So, you may see a broadcaster that is not owned by GE or Walt Disney in your lifetime is all I'm saying. 

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I have prime, but I actually kind of liked it with twitter, it fitted that platform naturally imo.  Not to mention that was probably some of the best live stream i've come across, I guess we'll see how amazon does. 

 

What will ultimately change the game would be a netflix or hulu like platform for sports broadcasting with more integrated social features with social-platforms, where you can bounce around from tablet, computer or apple/roku, whatever while still being able to tweet or comment while watching. 

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