'NFL Now' Launches on Apple TV With Breaking Football News and Highlights

[AppleInLVX]

Does Apple offer all these sports channels because they're popular, or because the rights are somehow easier to manage? Just curious... I get kinda disappointed every time we have NFL/Cricket/NHL/whatever ATV announcements because I'm not particularly into sports. Seems they over-cater to those interests.

 

[jarofclay73]

I can do $1.99/month. We'll see how the content is.

 

[Suture]

$1.99/month does seem like a good deal to get on-demand access to their series such as A Football Life, America's Game, etc. Those shows are produced very well, and I wouldn't seeing the ones I've missed.

 

[usersince86]

I can do $1.99/month. We'll see how the content is.

Please do and let us know... will be interesting to see what the content is.

 

[downforwhatever]

no live games aka no one is going to use it

 

[Orlandoech]

Hope and pray? Maybe you should buy the right antenna.

I've tried 3 different ones... none work where I am located. Must be the government blocking signals to force me to pay for Cable TV.

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I've tried 3 different ones but they recommend this one, which I have not tried.
Thanks for the help and info.

http://www.channelmasterstore.com/CM_3000HDAW_p/cm-3000hdaw.htm?Click=23422

 

[Parasprite]

Does Apple offer all these sports channels because they're popular, or because the rights are somehow easier to manage? Just curious... I get kinda disappointed every time we have NFL/Cricket/NHL/whatever ATV announcements because I'm not particularly into sports. Seems they over-cater to those interests.

Come to think of it, I think this may be a big part of it (though, I'm only speculating). As stubborn as the NFL seems, it must have a lot simpler of a hierarchy than record labels and the like which have so many factors to deal with.

Oh and definitely popularity, something I never quite understood but c'est la vie.

 

[lazyrighteye]

<Hank Williams, Jr.>
Are you ready for some highlights?
</Hank Williams, Jr.>

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Does Apple offer all these sports channels because they're popular, or because the rights are somehow easier to manage?

Combo: popular + more easily managed (highlights & live programming are two very different balls of wax).

 

[BJMRamage]

I'd love for this to be like HBO GO...not all cable/satellite subscriptions include NFL Network. (at least my cube-mate doesn't have this in his TV package)

this would allow the TV package subscriber to all NFL Films shows but perhaps only snippets of games, unless you unlock those features with the $2/month...or for those who don't have it in their package, they get all the stuff (again, no live TV, or whatever)

 

[jovada]

It needs more European content

 

[2crazy]

It needs more European content

I think that's exactly where the problem lies. There is no such thing as European content. Each country has their own distribution rights for movies and TV shows, thus keeping markets really small.

 

[AppleInLVX]

Come to think of it, I think this may be a big part of it (though, I'm only speculating). As stubborn as the NFL seems, it must have a lot simpler of a hierarchy than record labels and the like which have so many factors to deal with.

Oh and definitely popularity, something I never quite understood but c'est la vie.

Yes, I imagine based on the hell that Apple must be going through with a la carte programming from networks, it probably isn't easy to get good entertainment content, to say nothing of getting it affordably. It's too bad. I'd like to see more non-sports content. But I guess that's what we have YouTube for.

 

[TallManNY]

Fantasy

Wait as second, can a I create a video stream of highlights just for the players on my Fantasy Football Team? Oh yes, that will be worth $2 per month.

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Does Apple offer all these sports channels because they're popular, or because the rights are somehow easier to manage? Just curious... I get kinda disappointed every time we have NFL/Cricket/NHL/whatever ATV announcements because I'm not particularly into sports. Seems they over-cater to those interests.

Apple is trying to get as much content as it can. I'm pretty sure any channel or content provider is welcome to run on Apple. But the channel needs to make money and Apple isn't going to pay them. They need to make money from the adds that they run or, in this case, a subscription. Which Apple takes a cut of.

 

[JAT]

I've tried 3 different ones... none work where I am located. Must be the government blocking signals to force me to pay for Cable TV.

Inside? Outside? What's the problem, do you think? Edit: Sorry, didn't read carefully.

It sounds like you are sticking with indoors. That is usually the problem. Outdoors is more of a hassle, but it is what actually works.

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<Hank Williams, Jr.>
Are you ready for some highlights?
</Hank Williams, Jr.>

Haven't watched in awhile, eh?

 

[the8thark]

 

[attila]

Great for US sports fans. Great for fans of US sports.

Yet another uninteresting channel for non US-sports-fans...

The subscription model is interesting though. Add a channel app store and TV will be awesome!

 

[Ironduke]

I'm done pretending to like soccer.

Time for some real football.

how can something that came later be the REAL

lol violently at you hand egg boy

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i love it

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Baby steps....

The Apple TV -subscription model is taking shape surely, but slowly. Of course the content is important, but i believe that iTV is going to be much bigger, and more advanced, than any one of us can even imagine.

it will never be iTV, and while other powerful companys control content it wont

 

[Menopause]

Nice!

 

[Kar98]

Just more things to hide.

 

[CFreymarc]

if only we could watch live games via ATV

That is the direction. The league wants to do it. Problem is the existing network contracts.

When sports leagues start to directly stream games, the bottom falls out of television networks and the become obsolete.

My prediction, having Super Bowl 50 in Silicon Valley will be a watershed event sending the game out directly.

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The lack of viewership of the World Cup in the USA shows how slow the game is. For soccer to be popular, the game need to be faster with the following modifications.

* Get rid of the offsides rule. This will increase scoring.
* Lightly armor with padding on the field players making above the waist checking legal.
* Allow "bounce passes" between field players when a defender can intercept the ball with his hands to block a kick pass.
* Goals scored from midfield are "doubles" worth two goals. Beyond midfield goes are "triples" worth three goals.
* Break the play into four twenty minute quarters with one timeout per team per quarter.
* Make red card violations only suspend a player for a quarter.
* Have cheerleaders!!!!

 

[Ironduke]

That is the direction. The league wants to do it. Problem is the existing network contracts.

When sports leagues start to directly stream games, the bottom falls out of television networks and the become obsolete.

My prediction, having Super Bowl 50 in Silicon Valley will be a watershed event sending the game out directly.

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The lack of viewership of the World Cup in the USA shows how slow the game is. For soccer to be popular, the game need to be faster with the following modifications.

* Get rid of the offsides rule. This will increase scoring.
* Lightly armor with padding on the field players making above the waist checking legal.
* Allow "bounce passes" between field players when a defender can intercept the ball with his hands to block a kick pass.
* Goals scored from midfield are "doubles" worth two goals. Beyond midfield goes are "triples" worth three goals.
* Break the play into four twenty minute quarters with one timeout per team per quarter.
* Make red card violations only suspend a player for a quarter.
* Have cheerleaders!!!!

Stick to ya Hand Egg

 

[CFreymarc]

Stick to ya Hand Egg

Soccer as per the English rules was designed to intentionally create a sport that taught no practical combat skill to natives of English colonies. That is why it is weak in the States. Teach those "filed ball kickers" to do more than run and kick, then the game is worth something other than a pacification indoctrination.

 

[bearcatrp]

At least show past games for those who missed. Otherwise, FAIL!

 

[Gaspode67]

Soccer as per the English rules was designed to intentionally create a sport that taught no practical combat skill to natives of English colonies. That is why it is weak in the States. Teach those "filed ball kickers" to do more than run and kick, then the game is worth something other than a pacification indoctrination.

That is absolute garbage. If you're trying to argue a point, maybe you ought to do a little historical research first...

Football wasn't some artificial creation to keep "the colonials" passive. It is a centuries old game. There are references to the game as far back as the 1500s in Cambridge University annals to the game of "footeball". Codification of the rules of the game came about gradually and organically. Originally every team played by their own specific rules, with many variations about things such as number of players, size of the pitch, legal & illegal tackles, etc. Some allowed you to handle or even carry the ball (more of which later).

Gradually, teams and schools near each other (who tended to play each other more regularly) would agree a mutually acceptable set of rules for when they played. Slowly, these agreements spread until, in 1863, there was an effort from the clubs worldwide to reach an overall agreement on one unified set of rules. Note: This was an effort purely from the sport itself, not some vast conspiracy to subjugate the rest of the world! This is where Association Football came into being. As for the name "soccer", this is a relatively recent (1880's) invention, deriving from the word Association and the trend to ad the modifier "-er" as a colloquialism. The game itself is generally held by the large majority of the world to be "Football".

Now: handling of the ball. At the time, as I said earlier, some teams allowed the handling and carrying of the ball. These teams followed the same path as above, eventually codifying the laws of the game of Rugby Football (in 1871).
American and Canadian Football are offshoots of this game (as are Aussie rules and Rugby League).

 

[kds1]

another in a set of useless major US sports apps. the super fans may like the instant replay and highlights, but they've gotta get off this old model of not allowing online streaming of live games. i know they kind of do in some cases, but then they don't for people in the team's media market, which never made sense to me. why would i buy an expensive online subscription when i can't even watch my home team.

more of a general sports and online content rant, but this nfl app seems more of the same. just let us watch the games we want to online, please.

You can watch your own team on the AppleTV when they are playing away games. When they're in the home market, you need to watch it on your local broadcast channel, or buy a ticket and see the game in person. Totally fair.

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Soccer as per the English rules was designed to intentionally create a sport that taught no practical combat skill to natives of English colonies. That is why it is weak in the States. Teach those "filed ball kickers" to do more than run and kick, then the game is worth something other than a pacification indoctrination.

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The lack of viewership of the World Cup in the USA shows how slow the game is. For soccer to be popular, the game need to be faster with the following modifications.

* Get rid of the offsides rule. This will increase scoring.
* Lightly armor with padding on the field players making above the waist checking legal.
* Allow "bounce passes" between field players when a defender can intercept the ball with his hands to block a kick pass.
* Goals scored from midfield are "doubles" worth two goals. Beyond midfield goes are "triples" worth three goals.
* Break the play into four twenty minute quarters with one timeout per team per quarter.
* Make red card violations only suspend a player for a quarter.
* Have cheerleaders!!!!