Through eight weeks, Amazon is a strain on the NFL’s viewership

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Through eight weeks, Amazon is a strain on the NFL's viewership

I can see the headlines now from outlets that don’t cover sports media with any regularity: “NFL ratings down 5% halfway through the season!” And while it’s a true statement, there’s a caveat to it: four of the NFL’s media packages are in fine shape. One is, as expected, driving the decline...

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Through eight weeks, Amazon is a strain on the NFL's viewership

I can see the headlines now from outlets that don’t cover sports media with any regularity: “NFL ratings down 5% halfway through the season!” And while it’s a true statement, there’s a caveat to it: four of the NFL’s media packages are in fine shape. One is, as expected, driving the decline...

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yup. If I can’t just flip between channels, if I have to wait 5 minutes to get to Amazon Prime, buh bye.

Unless it’s a Cardinals game or Bills-Chiefs, I’m not gonna bother.

 

[Cheesebeef]

yup. If I can’t just flip between channels, if I have to wait 5 minutes to get to Amazon Prime, buh bye.

Unless it’s a Cardinals game or Bills-Chiefs, I’m not gonna bother.

It’s definitely an issue. Along with streaming glitches.

And mostly atrocious games.

 

[Krangodnzr]

I'm a streamer, and I'm actually more likely to watch the games on Amazon.

 

[Shane]

I'm a streamer, and I'm actually more likely to watch the games on Amazon.

Hasn't stopped me one bit. Still enjoy it.

 

[nashman]

Besides our game all the others have been terrible honestly, not many staying tuned in that’s for sure…

 

[Cbus cardsfan]

The only game I've watched on Amazon is the Cards game.
They do have a captive audience in that you can't flip around and that kind of sucks. I almost always put something else on during commercials.

 

[BigRedRage]

It's really easy, so, if people blame time....maybe its an internet connection thing. I have zero issues with the prime broadcasts, I just only really watch cardinals games.

 

[LA Redbird]

Bad scheduling. I think three games in a row were terrible football with one of those games causing me to contemplate if it was the worst game I ever watched.

 

[BritCard]

I imagine this is more a gating issue than a service issue.

Lots of older people don't stream. Also a lot of people already pay for cable who don't also have the money to also pay for Amazon.

 

[HomerPimpson]

Love the Amazon broadcasts. There's 3 viewing options, English, Spanish, and Next Gen Stats, powered by AWS. The one you wanna check out is the Next Gen stats broadcast. You can press down on the remote/controller to switch to the Next Gen broadcast. I think it's the future of football broadcasting. They show an overlay with the players names, routes, and stats about the down and distance. For example on 3rd downs it'll show they throw it to such and such a player 32% of the time in this situation. It has all the statistical information laid out to the right of the screen so it doesn't interfere with the action. When I returned to a regular broadcast I definitely noticed the missing information, and I hope more broadcasts use it going forward. My only peev with it so far is the games have been trash.

 

[TRW]

Amazon works great for me. The problem has been the ish games.

 

[Stout]

Amazon works fine, but there's no good way to channel flip during commercials.

 

[BullheadCardFan]

Amazon works fine, but there's no good way to channel flip during commercials.

This is the only issue

 

[jf-08]

My issues are that when you stream you can't flip back and forth between channels to check out another game say like the World Series or something like that. Or when the Suns are playing too it's tough to flip back and forth because when you check the streaming option you have to go through the whole menu of selecting the game that you want and then when you get to the game it takes four or five seconds to get totally into focus.

It's just a hassle especially when there is a game on with teams that I really don't care about. In the past or on Sunday night or Monday night we will have the game on in the background and just flip back and forth between several sports games. But we are not doing that with the Thursday night games.