What might have been the most exciting moment of Monday Night Football for the Los Angeles Rams’ faithful had nothing to do with the game itself.
15.09.2022 - 21:01 / variety.com
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor There will be lots of teams worth following this NFL season, be they the Tampa Bay Buccaneers or the returning Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams. Even so, many people in the media business have their eyes on a very distinctive player: Amazon Prime Video. The streamer, which once shared “Thursday Night Football” games with Fox, now has exclusive rights to that action and must convince some pigskin Luddites to plug into broadband. Streaming “Thursday Night Football,” after all, will require a different kind of remote — and familiarity with a home screen, not a cable box. “It is going to be a behavioral shift for people,” acknowledges Jay Marine, VP of Prime Video and its global head of sports. “Our job is to make sure they are able to find ‘Thursday Night Football’ at its new home and make it as easy as possible to get into the Prime Video app and start streaming.”
Amazon has spent the past few weeks trying to whet fans’ appetites for the property. Have you seen an Amazon delivery van in your neighborhood? Many of them are wrapped in promotional displays touting “TNF” and the company’s new “Lord of the Rings” series. Got something on order? Amazon boxes come stamped with words alerting customers to the sports debut. Amazon is also using its home page — no small placement — to tout the games. As of Wednesday evening, a massive “takeover” video dominated Amazon.com, which also featured an active countdown clock ticking the seconds away until game time. There are ads, too, scattered across broadcast TV, radio and social media. Some of them will run during other media companies’ football telecasts. Amazon’s efforts to lure fans to the games (access hinges on buying a membership to the
What might have been the most exciting moment of Monday Night Football for the Los Angeles Rams’ faithful had nothing to do with the game itself.
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The ratings are in for the first installment of Prime Video’s “Thursday Night Football.”The streamer’s first live football game – the matchup between Kansas City and the Los Angeles Chargers — averaged 13 million viewers, per Nielsen. Based on Amazon’s own measurement metrics and Nielsen Media research, Prime Video reported that “Thursday Night Football” averaged 15.3 million viewers for the Sept.
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