How is the NFL game being paywalled on Peacock any different than when they are on Prime Video?
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It isn’t. It was just as annoying then as it is this time. The difference this time is that it is apparent they didn’t learn anything from the backlash last time.
It isn’t, but Thursday Night Football games are regular season games, and generally (but not always) poor matchups. Also Prime has far more subscribers than Peacock so fewer people were impacted.
The game on Peacock was a playoff game with the defending Super Bowl champions and face of the NFL.
The chiefs game last night was Peacock *exclusive*, there were no other streaming services offering that game, other than local television markets.
This contracts to the Prime Video games, which were available on other NFL streaming partners except for the lesser Thursday Night series.
NBC has always paid for games, but this is the first time they made it Streaming only, to get new subscribers to Peacock+. Amazon did the same thing with the Thursday games only on Prime.
TV is in transition from traditional distribution via cable, satellite, and the original for broadcasters into streaming. ABC has Disney+ with ESPN and has the most streamers already. Peacock and Prime are trying to position themselves when it goes full streaming.
This is going to be a multiple year transition, so plan to see more streaming only games as competition pays off with more subscribers.
My grandpa (who is 92) can’t watch our favorite college basketball team because they stream only on ESPN +. He’s 92! He barely understands wifi let alone streaming.
In that case and in what NBC did with this Peacock game, they are overdoing it more and more with steaming sports.
Yes, it’s the new frontier for entertainment. But a lot of reasons exist that people can’t or don’t steam entertainment – Internet access, age, socioeconomic reason etc.
It’s like moving music to CDs and all but telling everyone to throw their tapes away.
TNF is streamed *free* on twitch.tv
The game last night was only streamable through peacock or through unlicensed (therefore illegal) services or websites.
The Prime Video games were mostly Thursday Night Football. You’ve almost always needed to pay extra to watch Thursday Night Football going back to when they were only on NFL Network, so I think most people are used to that now.
A big weekend playoff game available only on a subscription streaming service is a pretty big departure from recent trends.
All I can say is fuck the NFL. They clearly don’t want me watching their games, and so I oblige them.
The only access I currently have, is via Amazon Prime and that’s thanks to a friend.
Otherwise, since I don’t have a cable provider, and I’m not subscribing to fucking Peacock, or ESPN+, or FUBU, or whatever the fuck other streaming services there, I’m blocked out.
Even better, you need a cable subscription for access to the CBS, ABC, and NBC apps. Why the fuck do I need a cable connection for fucking the big three broadcasters streaming through a goddamn Amazon firestick??? I’m already paying for the internet connection, and they show commercials. So why the fuck are my local cable providers even a part of the equation?
OK, old man yells at clouds moment over for now.
But seriously, fuck the NFL.
Game requires a $100+ cable subscription and no one cares, it requires a $6 streaming subscription and everyone loses their mind.
Cudnt everyone who doesn’t have peacock just get the month free trial. The season will be over before the trial is up. And it’s not like it costs anywhere near what Netflix costs.
And you get the added bonus of being able to watch “psych”
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