- With Prime Video planning to stream both an NFL and an NBA game on Black Friday in 2025, Amazon's Jeff Kaiser said the company is “thinking really big about” its approach. “When you add on the pregame shows, the postgame shows, the shoulder programming -- it'll be pretty much a 12-hour event exclusively on Prime Video. ... Could two of those games be from the same city? Potentially.”
- I broke the news Tuesday that NFL owners are considering further restrictions on Fox Sports analyst Tom Brady after his Oct. 20 interview with Patrick Mahomes.
- Rolapp has a message for all the league’s rights holders in the wake of Disney’s expanded “Monday Night Football” simulcasts on ABC: There’s an open door at the NFL for all ideas to increase the distribution of games.
- NBC Sports President Rick Cordella said at Media Innovators that after Peacock’s exclusive NFL Wild Card game last January, new subscribers “didn’t churn” and contributed to the highest video-on-demand viewing in the streamer’s history on the Sunday after the game. “Sports fans are not so monolithic that all we do is watch sports, but we watch other content,” he said.
