That is what Amazon is hoping for. I think their hope will be in vain. Unlike with Twitter or prior NFL game venues -- Amazon requires you to pay for a Prime Account at over 100 bucks per year. This works great for existing Prime customers (but only a small percentage actively watch the NFL). There is also a question if Amazon will require Prime users to pay extra for an "NFL sports package" (not disclosed yet).
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That is what Amazon is hoping for. I think their hope will be in vain. Unlike with Twitter or prior NFL game venues -- Amazon requires you to pay for a Prime Account at over 100 bucks per year. This works great for existing Prime customers (but only a small percentage actively watch the NFL). There is also a question if Amazon will require Prime users to pay extra for an "NFL sports package" (not disclosed yet).
Less than $10 a month... do you know how many people signed up for Disney+ just to get to see Mandalorian and then STAYED as they were pulled in by other programming....
You really should research the streaming services, they are making a killing adding programming and people signing up for 1 thing mostly stay for the other goodies.
Also $100 bucks for 18 weeks of games..
Amazon is not going to lose money because when people sign up for NFL Amazon can show off more sign up snad get more interest from advertisers and more money.....
When Netflix added Cobra Kai they saw a surge in new signups. People will pay a small amount to get the programming they want.
Amazon is not built around NFL so this just adds to their gravy train. Amazon sells advertising for those THU night game and that will be hundreds of millions of dollars..which they did not have before.
Yes... I understand the business model. I just don't think the pull of NFL Thursday will benefit Amazon to the extent that they are hoping.
Time will tell. In about a year we can look back after the NFL's next season to see the business results.
That is because you have hinted at a real negative bias against the NFL.... $15 billion in revenues is no joke. Amazon is not built around the NFL, it is just another program to offer. NFL always goes up against prime time Thursday night line up and does very well considering. Those fans don't just disappear. remember DISH and NFL ticket.... pretty big now still.
Mitch McConnell Reminded of Citizens United Backing After Warning to CEOs
https://www.newsweek.com/mitch-mcconnell-citizens-united-ceo-warning-1581174
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has been reminded of his support of the Citizens United ruling after he warned big businesses to "stay out of politics" as they denounced a controversial new voting law in Georgia.
The Kentucky Republican said it was "simply not true" and a "big lie" to call the new voting law racist or a return to Jim Crow-era restrictions on minority communities.
The new Georgia voting law tightens restrictions on absentee ballot voting; makes it illegal for election officials to mail out absentee ballots to everyone on the voter roll; threatens a misdemeanor charge against those who hand out water and food at polling stations; and hands the state legislature greater control over the Georgia Election Board.
He issued his call for firms to "stay out of politics" as Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines criticized the policy along with other firms. Major League Baseball also announced that it would relocate the 2021 All-Star Game due to be held in Atlanta.
Issuing a statement on the voting law, McConnell said: "It's jaw-dropping to see powerful American institutions not just permit themselves to be bullied, but join in the bullying themselves."
A number of commentators reacted to the Republican leader's remarks by reminding him of his support for the Citizens United ruling that permitted corporations, unions and other outside groups to spend unlimited sums on elections.
"Mitch McConnell knows corporations are not people—that's why he's so quick to silence them," the End Citizens United campaign tweeted Sunday. "He only considers them 'people' when cashing their checks and watching their dark money ads in support of his campaign of voter suppression and gridlock."
Lawyer Ted Boutrous similarly said that the Citizens United ruling backed by McConnell gave corporations "full-throated First Amendment rights in politics."
"Mitch McConnell is basically saying that actual corporate political speech on important issues can and should be muzzled by the government but corporate cash contributions to him and others is speech that should be protected by the First Amendment," he tweeted. "That is nonsensical."
Former Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill (D) also said it was "funny" that McConnell opposed corporations being involved in politics after backing a Supreme Court ruling that allowed them to spend unlimited funds on elections.
"He desperately wants corporations to be people (see Citizens United) with First Amendment rights when it comes to campaign cash... just not for any other type of speech," she tweeted.
Speaking at a roundtable event in 2011, McConnell said the Citizens United ruling "leveled the playing field" between newspaper owners and other corporations that wished to have a say in politics.
"All Citizens United basically did was to level the playing field for corporate America, and for union America, and say you like a media company can... independently express your views about anything in this country," he said at the time. "Why shouldn't everybody be free to do that?"
https://www.newsweek.com/mitch-mcconnell-citizens-united-ceo-warning-1581174
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has been reminded of his support of the Citizens United ruling after he warned big businesses to "stay out of politics" as they denounced a controversial new voting law in Georgia.
The Kentucky Republican said it was "simply not true" and a "big lie" to call the new voting law racist or a return to Jim Crow-era restrictions on minority communities.
The new Georgia voting law tightens restrictions on absentee ballot voting; makes it illegal for election officials to mail out absentee ballots to everyone on the voter roll; threatens a misdemeanor charge against those who hand out water and food at polling stations; and hands the state legislature greater control over the Georgia Election Board.
He issued his call for firms to "stay out of politics" as Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines criticized the policy along with other firms. Major League Baseball also announced that it would relocate the 2021 All-Star Game due to be held in Atlanta.
Issuing a statement on the voting law, McConnell said: "It's jaw-dropping to see powerful American institutions not just permit themselves to be bullied, but join in the bullying themselves."
A number of commentators reacted to the Republican leader's remarks by reminding him of his support for the Citizens United ruling that permitted corporations, unions and other outside groups to spend unlimited sums on elections.
"Mitch McConnell knows corporations are not people—that's why he's so quick to silence them," the End Citizens United campaign tweeted Sunday. "He only considers them 'people' when cashing their checks and watching their dark money ads in support of his campaign of voter suppression and gridlock."
Lawyer Ted Boutrous similarly said that the Citizens United ruling backed by McConnell gave corporations "full-throated First Amendment rights in politics."
"Mitch McConnell is basically saying that actual corporate political speech on important issues can and should be muzzled by the government but corporate cash contributions to him and others is speech that should be protected by the First Amendment," he tweeted. "That is nonsensical."
Former Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill (D) also said it was "funny" that McConnell opposed corporations being involved in politics after backing a Supreme Court ruling that allowed them to spend unlimited funds on elections.
"He desperately wants corporations to be people (see Citizens United) with First Amendment rights when it comes to campaign cash... just not for any other type of speech," she tweeted.
Speaking at a roundtable event in 2011, McConnell said the Citizens United ruling "leveled the playing field" between newspaper owners and other corporations that wished to have a say in politics.
"All Citizens United basically did was to level the playing field for corporate America, and for union America, and say you like a media company can... independently express your views about anything in this country," he said at the time. "Why shouldn't everybody be free to do that?"
I wish I could say Americans don't need a daily reminder that McTurtle is a hypocrite
Great job MLB.... white supremacists are celebrating everywhere.
'Woke' MLB moving All-Star Game from 51% Black Atlanta to 76% White Denver, critics note
The game's relocation is expected to deliver a severe economic blow to Atlanta, where nearly 30% of businesses are Black-owned
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/all-star-game-census-denver-atlanta
'Woke' MLB moving All-Star Game from 51% Black Atlanta to 76% White Denver, critics note
The game's relocation is expected to deliver a severe economic blow to Atlanta, where nearly 30% of businesses are Black-owned
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/all-star-game-census-denver-atlanta
Your outrage is misdirected