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NFL Solicits Apple to Stream 'Thursday Night Football' Next Season

If I can't watch it on my TiVo with it's awesome ability to control the action through 30-second skip, 8-second replay, slow motion and other well executed controls, I won't be watching it.
 
Chupa Chupa said:
But what I don't understand about OP's remark is that he is referring to non-Sunday day games which Sunday Ticket never covers. So the games he's talking about were not blacked out, they just were not available with the cable/local channels his HOA subscribed too. Odd though because Sunday is NBC, and a national broadcast. Monday is ESPN, which is on almost everyone's cable lineup. Thursdays is on CBS and NFL channel for first half of season. Second half just NFL channel.
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You clearly understand the exact problem he had - you're detailing it perfectly - you're just not connecting it back. ;)

They paid the 300 bucks for the online version of Sunday Ticket. All but 1 of the games he was interested in was otherwise available to him for free as part of the national broadcast (Thursday, Sunday or Monday Night) or perhaps even the "top" game that week outside of his local team (how Fox and CBS alternate the double-header every week). So, in the end, they spent 300 dollars to watch 1 game on TV.
 
b1wils1 said:
Yes please. Give me a reason to not renew my Sunday Ticket subscription. Oh wait, the Bears have already given me plenty of reasons. And yet, I keep handing DirecTV my money. Now I'm trolling on my own post; sigh.
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Great point. But at least in Bears case, local stations usually broadcast the game whether it's a Thursday or Monday game over free TV anyway.
 
Here's what I would like for every/any sport...
1. Select your team (or multiple teams)
2. Purchase season(s)
3. Watch every game of the selected team's (s') season.

I'm ready to pay money to do this and until the moment that I can, XMBC is a work-around that is a little inconvenient for me but I'm sure hurts the bottom line of the broadcasters.

I'm sure I'm not the only one. Give us people what we want. No blackouts, no in/out of market games, I just want the option to watch every game. SIMPLE.
 
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I think this is a great idea and one that is years late. Hopefully they will begin to do this more often. As for Sunday Ticket, I think I might be ending my time with it. I love my Lions but just not sure it's worth the money anymore with Redzone Channel
 
4jasontv said:
No, but they might lose negotiating power, which might lead to a loss in revenue.
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It might be that I am slow, but I am still not getting this.

Maybe you are not understanding my point. If the NFL builds an App for the Apple TV, Amazon Fire, Google Chromecast that allows them to stream their own games, then who the hell are they negotiating with? To my knowledge they put their apps out there for free with in-app purchases for a game or a season and make money. Oh and what they stream is full of commercials so they make money again. No negotiations. Pure profits.

What is this negotiation power business you speak of? This sounds like the old business model where you give away distribution to someone else. I am advocating something simpler that benefits the content creator (in this case the NFL) and the content consumer (in this case you and me). The being taken out is the middleman, the distributor. How do you lose revenue? My business 101 smarts says eliminate the middleman and increase profits/revenue.
 
convergent said:
Live sports is the biggest challenge for cord cutters. This may give apple a toe hold into something that could disrupt the whole space.
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Live sports is a huge deal, but I think just as if not more important is the "with the same ads" comment. All previous industry attempts at live content streaming have fallen flat because they always feel the need to isolate revenue generation for content streamed through a PC versus what's streamed through a DVR. Never made any sense.
 
Knowing the broadcast contract schedule, odds are it will go like this ...

2016: stream Thursday night football
2017: stream Sunday night football
2018: stream Monday night football and ProBowl
2020: stream "feature" Sunday morning and after games
2021: stream all Sunday morning and afternoon games
2022: stream playoffs sans conference championships
2023: all playoffs streamed
2025: Superbowl streamed
 
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Always amazed at the NFL money-making machine. And its unwatchable product, they call it sport.

Obviously I am member of a tiny minority, so I defer to NFL fanatics vying for the streaming product on an ATV with twenty commercial breaks and one-hundred ads on average (see stats below).

But here are some sobering statistics about a typical NFL"game" (compiled by the Wall Street Journal):
  • an average professional football game lasts 3 hours and 12 minutes.
  • if you tally up the time when the ball is actually in play, the action amounts to a mere 11 minutes.
  • an average NFL broadcast spent more time on replays (17 minutes) than live play.
  • the plurality of time (75 minutes) is spent watching players, coaches, and referees essentially loiter on the field, with an average play lasting just four seconds.
  • average NFL game includes 20 commercial breaks containing more than 100 ads.
  • commercials take up about an hour, or one-third, of the average football broadcast.
Wow! Just wow!
 
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arftech99 said:
Blasphemy!:p
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I just don't like to watch overpaid guys trying to chase a ball by smashing into each other after having rigorously injected steroids.
I prefer to watch overpaid guys trying to control a ball with a glove while other overpaid guys try to hit it with a stick, just to earn the right to run over a bag (all after rigorously having injected steroids).
 
Outstanding!!!

Now I can watch my team get their butts kicked, from my iPhone.
 
I'd love to have access to ALL the games. Pay for single games (at a higher rate) if you don't watch much. Pay for access to all games, or all your team's games, for the entire season (at a discounted, "bulk" rate). Sort of how payment for magazines used to work.
 
Pay for game would work for me. Heck, right now I'd pay to not be able to watch a game. It's a train-wreck, but what're ya' gunna' do?

Mazeman said:
I'd love to have access to ALL the games. Pay for single games (at a higher rate) if you don't watch much. Pay for access to all games, or all your team's games, for the entire season (at a discounted, "bulk" rate). Sort of how payment for magazines used to work.
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critter13 said:
yes. say yes. this would be a great first step!
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First step? So we are yet another year (at least) away from ending the tyranny and gouging of the cable and satellite providers? It's bad enough having to sit through the inanity of all the commercials.

For gods sake, if you produce content that people are willing to buy, let them buy it already! And end the ridiculous advertising.
 
I cut the cord and went free TV with an antennae years ago. This would be great for us cheapos...
 
I have the WatchESPN app on my iPad Air. Actually, you can watch all the ESPN channels if you provide you cable TV account credentials (I use my Comcast/Xfinity account).

But getting back on topic, I believe that CBS may be interested in a full-season deal for Thursday night NFL games, if the NFL is willing to schedule good games on Thursday night.
 
Chupa Chupa said:
There are two different types of blackouts. The first is the one you are referring to, that a team's home game can't be broadcast if its not a sell out. That type of blackout is gone. The other is just a cable blackout when the local OTA broadcaster is also showing the game.
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That's just weird
 
BigTen2Go and BigTenPlus are godsends, but I sure wish there were more NCAA wrestling streamed. I know, it's a fringe sport. :(
 
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