ESPN has about 75 million subscribers and is shrinking. Netflix and Prime Video have many more subscribers and they are growing. UConn football should take the risk on a streaming deal. Could UConn football become a cult football team for young people who don't have linear TV?
UConn doesn't get $1,000,000 a year from CBS Sports. It's a little over $1,000,000 over four years. So probably around $300,000 a year.
They want 350.00 for Sunday Ticket. I always got it for free with Direct TV. Not willing to spend that kind of money for football.
From my perspective - most young people use streaming to build their NFL fantasy football teams- I often have a house full of 18-21 year old kids and they flip from game to game to watch player stats- I don't get it.
Maybe the 10+ million viewers who watched NFL Thursday night football on Prime Video last season? Although viewership was down on PV from the season before Thursday Night Football, they had the youngest average viewer age in 10 years.
Who hasn't met someone that didn't know they had prime video as part of their two day shipping package?
UConn fans will tune in as well as fans of the teams we will be playing.
You’re all missing the point. Sports bars don’t have it. People don‘t yet think to go there. So when scanning channels for CFB on Saturday, Prime isn’t showing up. It’s fine for the fan, but it gets no foot traffic. You want to show up when people scroll through channels.
I'm one of them. Look at how expensive Prime has gotten. I have no interest in subsidizing original content or the media platform. I just want my stuff to come in 1-2 days and not pay ridiculous shipping fees - that's all I want Prime to do.
Another way to look at it, is at least 30 million people who pay for the service have no interest in Prime Video content. That's not a ringing endorsement. Most people, self included, use Prime primarily for shipping. Jack Ryan is a bonus.
It is just a matter of time before Amazon put better video content on Prime so people can watch more.
NFL Thursday Night Football on Prime Video was available in >300k sports bars, restaurants, casinos, etc. last year through DirectTV for Business. I watched a couple TNF games in a sports bar last year.
... and Reacher, don't forget Reacher.
OK. One game a week, with no competition, in the most popular sport and league in the country. Still they had to have a partner to make it happen. Now tell me how that do that when 12 college football games are on at the same time and they want to show one of them. I'm not saying it can't get there, but it isn't there now.
Literally none of this addresses what I said.
Prime Video is the 2nd most watch streaming service behind Netflix, but nobody is watching it.
I have 9 of 10 of those services. I pay $54 a month for all of them. No cable for the summer. Sports comes on, watch the game I will do YouTubetv.
What service are you on? That seems like a decent rate for everything. (actually, I just did the math and that's about the norm for everything)