It’s official! Travis Kelce has arrived in the Land Down Under!
09.02.2024 - 23:25 / deadline.com
Amazon’s Prime Video, which is coming off a sizable ratings uptick for Thursday Night Football in the second year of its exclusive rights deal, will be the only place for viewers to watch an NFL playoff game next January.
The postseason rights agreement was confirmed to Deadline by sources familiar with the discussions between the league and the tech giant. The initiative follows a successful outing last month by NBCUniversal’s Peacock, which drew 23 million viewers for an exclusive stream of the wild-card playoff game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins.
In addition to healthy viewership (augmented by league media rules allowing the two teams’ local-market broadcast TV stations to also air it on linear TV), the game accounted for nearly one-third of all internet traffic on the Saturday night when it was played. NBCU parent Comcast proclaimed the game as the most streamed event in U.S. history.
Financial terms for the 2025 game were unavailable. NBCU reportedly paid $110 million for the rights to last month’s game and expressed interest in doing a follow-up next season. But sources told Deadline that Prime Video had the right of first refusal under its deal for Thursday night.
While more than a few traditional TV viewers and football fans were irked by the streaming-only development, it is in step with the direction of live sports overall in the streaming era. In many cases, streaming outlets have served as simulcast extensions of linear TV, as will be the case with Sunday’s Super Bowl. Increasingly, though, events are going online-only. Major League Baseball two years ago reached pacts with Apple, Prime Video and Peacock for exclusive game packages. WWE’s Raw franchise, a significant
It’s official! Travis Kelce has arrived in the Land Down Under!
Overall TV use in January hit a 4-year high (not counting the early pandemic months of 2020), Nielsen said, as new originals and an NFL playoff game helped streaming set a single-day record.
Joe Otterson TV Reporter Tony Gonzalez is set to guest star in the CBS comedy “The Neighborhood,” Variety has learned exclusively. Gonzalez will appear in the seventh episode of the show’s sixth season, which kicked off on Feb. 12.
Taylor Swift allegedly got Kanye West “kicked out” of the Super Bowl, an ex-NFL star has claimed.Swift recently turned up to support her boyfriend Travis Kelce and his team the Kansas City Chiefs, who were squaring off against the San Francisco 49ers. Fans also spotted Ice Spice and Lana Del Rey in the crowd – but according to Brandon Marshall, a former wide receiver who stopped playing in 2018, another star was supposed to join the festivities.On his own I Am Athlete podcast, Marshall claimed that Kanye West turned up to the Super Bowl show, donning a mask with his logo on it.“Kanye West pulls up to Vegas,” Marshall recalled.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce ended Super Bowl LVIII with a kiss like a fairy-tale ending. The NFL has leaned into the coverage between the singer-songwriter and the Kansas City Chiefs star and now they have released audio of the couple leading up to the kiss.
The NFL has released audio of what was said between Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift on the field after the 2024 Super Bowl!
There’s already been plenty of amateur AND professional lip readers trying to make out what Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce said to one another at the Super Bowl. But who needs ’em??
Tatiana Siegel Joe Biden didn’t score an endorsement from Taylor Swift on Super Bowl Sunday, as some had predicted. But her boyfriend Travis Kelce is using the president’s renewable energy tax credits to finance the film “My Dead Friend Zoe.” The SXSW-bound indie, which stars Natalie Morales, Ed Harris and Morgan Freeman, marks Kelce’s first foray into movies, with the Kansas City Chiefs tight end serving as an executive producer.
Taylor Swift‘s attendance at the 2024 Super Bowl helped it become the most-watched broadcast in US TV history since the 1969 moon landing.Approximately 123.4million people watched the Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday (February 11) across streaming and TV, according to Nielsen ratings released by CBS (per Sky News) – making it the most-watched Super Bowl ever.The Apollo 11 moon landing is still the most-watched broadcast in history, estimated to have drawn 150million viewers across the US.Nielsen added that a record 202.4million people watched at least part of the game across all networks, though the data does not include people who watched in public places like bars.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor At the 2024 Super Bowl, Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Usher soaked up the limelight as the Kansas City Chiefs became back-to-back champions with their overtime defeat of the San Francisco 49ers. And of course, the Super Bowl was again a venue for dozens of advertisers — who spent up to $7 million for a 30-second spot in CBS’s telecast — to try to break through on the noisiest night on TV.
Well, this is catnip for NFL conspiracy theorists!
hate coverage of Swift, 34, rooting for the Kansas City Chiefs and tight end Travis Kelce, 34, to “get a f–king life.” “[For] all of you that are complaining about Taylor Swift being at games, get a f–king life. It’s her f–king boyfriend!” Adele said in a clip, taken Saturday at her Las Vegas residency show, that’s circulating on social media.“I want the [San Francisco] 49ers to win but I also want the Chiefs to win.
Michaela Zee Adele shared her thoughts on Taylor Swift‘s attendance at NFL games during her residency show in Las Vegas on Saturday night. In a video shared on social media, Adele defended Swift while talking about the Super Bowl LVIII, where the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers will go head to head Sunday at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium.
Travis Kelce and Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes are good friends, and it’s very clear that their partners Taylor Swift and Brittany Mahomes are also close.
It’s finally game day, and it’s time for the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers to go head-to-head at the 2024 Super Bowl – but don’t forget the cheerleaders putting in work on the sidelines!
Travis Kelce is not the only NFL player who is dating someone famous!
The San Francisco 49ers are heading to the Super Bowl!
Taylor Swift has returned to the U.S. after performing in Tokyo and landing at LAX ahead of Super Bowl LVIII.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor After seeing big viewership gains for “Thursday Night Football” on Prime Video this past NFL season, Amazon is getting its hand on an extra bit of pigskin for the next one. Amazon’s Prime Video will have exclusive U.S. rights to one NFL playoff game in the 2024-25 season, Variety confirmed.
Juszczyk, the 29-year-old wife of San Francisco 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk, had spent the past several years of her husband’s career creating custom outfits for women like herself, who wanted to look fashionable while supporting their favorite team. Juszczyk taught herself how to sew, made hundreds of pieces from skirts to jumpsuits, and soon realized that her passion project could be a real business.