NFL looking for a 100% increase in broadcasting rights fees on new TV contracts

[Don Otreply 3,319]

30 minutes ago, K-9 said:

How do you separate watching the Bills and not drinking the NFL koolaid? Like it or not, watching the Bills is sipping from that cup.

Life is not black or white but shades of grey... I don’t pay to watch... 

Edited February 25 by Don Otreply

[Doc Brown 8,296]

Deal reached with Disney.  ABC will carry a Super Bowl.  Amazon Prime now will carry TNF games instead of Fox.  TNF still broadcast on NFL Network.

 

 

Edited February 26 by Doc Brown

[BillsMafi$ 676]

3 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:

Deal reached with Disney.  ABC will carry a Super Bowl.  Amazon Prime now will carry TNF games instead of Fox.  TNF still broadcast on NFL Network.

 

 

Salary cap going to be going uuuuup

[YoloinOhio 52,677]

-Disney biggest winner. ABC getting SB and other games = retransmission fee hikes.  Also ESPN had smallest % increase. 

- CBS, NBC, and now Fox have all walked away from TNF. Not sure that will ever come back to broadcast TV.

- Mostly status quo except more money

[RiotAct 5,070]

will TNF still be on Prime Video too?

 

 

 

Nevermind, last paragraph of the article:

 

”The biggest change will be with “TNF,” which will move from Fox to Amazon Prime and NFL Network. It is unclear what Amazon would be paying.”

Edited February 26 by RiotAct

[Mango 2,065]

46 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

-Disney biggest winner. ABC getting SB and other games = retransmission fee hikes.  Also ESPN had smallest % increase. 

- CBS, NBC, and now Fox have all walked away from TNF. Not sure that will ever come back to broadcast TV.

- Mostly status quo except more money

It’s a lot more money it sounds like. 30% increase from Disney, and 2x from the networks for Sunday games. It seems the only thing left up in the air is the value of the Amazon deal and what happens with any sort of subscription, ie. Sunday Ticket. 
 

There shouldn’t be any issue with the cap making a large jump. 

[without a drought 539]

I would've thought that they would lower the price to go along with the lower salary cap.

[BTB 1,534]

The biggest question is who will broadcast the SB for ABC/ESPN. Steve Levy? Beth Mowins? Tessitore? Maybe Fowler and Herbie?

 

Enquiring minds want to know?

Edited February 27 by BTB

[Mike in Horseheads 2,051]

Good article from the NY Post on new tv deal, Amazon TNF and Sunday ticket:

https://nypost.com/2021/02/26/amazons-piece-of-next-nfl-tv-deal-will-be-interesting/

[Big Turk 6,763]

18 hours ago, RiotAct said:

will TNF still be on Prime Video too?

 

 

 

Nevermind, last paragraph of the article:

 

”The biggest change will be with “TNF,” which will move from Fox to Amazon Prime and NFL Network. It is unclear what Amazon would be paying.”

 

Probably a LOT to get in on it...they had a few games shown via Prime during the year this year but I am assuming they paid a pretty penny.

[Ed_Formerly_of_Roch 1,251]

On 2/26/2021 at 3:25 PM, Doc Brown said:

Deal reached with Disney.  ABC will carry a Super Bowl.  Amazon Prime now will carry TNF games instead of Fox.  TNF still broadcast on NFL Network.

 

 

 

Except the NFL is saying no deal has been reached.  Sounds like Disney announced something a little too early or some details still to be worked out, but likely close

 

For those who have access to The Athletic good article there today too about broadcast rights and  more details.

 

This article does clear up one thing that's been discussed on prior posts.  There were some posts stating this is all bogus, there are no new TV deals coming as the NFL just signed new deals with Fox and CBS so nothing is being announced.  This article explains while that is true, this deal now spells out the rights and $$ for once those existing deals run out.  Basically it's a contract extension so everyone will know what the amounts coming in for close to the next 10 years.  The only actual new $$ coming will be the ESPN deal as that expires very soon.

 

The other thing it addresses is all the talk here about how the bulk will be going to a streaming package, because this is a long term deal, likely the opposite is true, the NFL has no plans for any expanded streaming with the exception of Thursday night package.

 

Sunday Ticket may also go to streaming, but may be some type of split transmission deal and that is the one rights package that likely could go down in value as DTV way over paid for it as it was a "loss leader " to them to generate DTV subs.  To a new player in town, it will become their bread and butter so need to make money on it.

 

https://theathletic.com/2409140/2021/02/25/nfl-tv-contracts-101-how-deals-with-cbs-fox-espn-nbc-amazon-could-change/

[RaoulDuke79 4,664]

On 2/20/2021 at 9:48 PM, Roger Goodell said:

The NFL is looking at several possible ways to expand access to our fans across as many entertainment platforms as possible.

I love this *****. I hope you have platform on every nfl message board. 

[jkx2 162]

On 2/23/2021 at 12:54 PM, Big Turk said:

 

Nah...to see things so black and white.

Stealing is black and white. I bet if it was your money then you'd be bitching up a storm. 

[machine gun kelly 2,838]

Well, the latest I heard was abc 30%, but the NFL refutes this news.  The wide range of percentages are just speculation.  One side says 100%, and the other 20%.  They’ll end up somewhere in the middle.  The good news is once we get past this year, the pie will get bigger.

[Big Turk 6,763]

9 hours ago, jkx2 said:

Stealing is black and white. I bet if it was your money then you'd be bitching up a storm. 

 

But gouging people is cool. I'd guess you are cool with Texas charging people 20K for electricity over a few days also.

[aristocrat 2,628]

35 minutes ago, Big Turk said:

 

But gouging people is cool. I'd guess you are cool with Texas charging people 20K for electricity over a few days also.

Two different scenarios.  You pay for entertainment one way or another. Do you work for free?