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NFL

YouTube C.E.O. Neal Mohan.

Is YouTube the Future of Streaming TV?

The least talked about video company is also the most popular, a veritable platform of platforms with billions of users, the one upon which all those other streamers rest.
Julia Alexander • June 6, 2023
William D. Cohan • April 16, 2023
Plepler’s Prophecy, Harris’s Victory & Elon’s Tears
Casey Bloys, Kathleen Finch, David Zaslav, and J.B. Perrette during a Warner Bros. Discovery Streaming press event.
News and notes from private equity, Zazworld, and media.
Theodore Schleifer • April 12, 2023
Jeff Bezos Punts on the Washington Commanders
Jeff Bezos’s pursuit of the Commanders NFL franchise seems to have ended.
(For now.) Will he set his sights on the Seahawks?
Jeff Bezos, in his putative pursuit of the Commanders, has essentially thrown away the typical playbook for purchasing a sports team.
Theodore Schleifer • April 11, 2023
More Bezos NFL Murmurs & An S.B.F. Co-Conspirator Mystery
Scoops from the internal rumblings in and around the three comma club: the latest details about Bezos’s Commanders interest, the tech G.O.P. bundling wars, and the silence of FTX’s CC-2, Ryan Salame.
There is an anxiety in NFL circles that Jeff Bezos has been keeping quiet before decisively pouncing on the Commanders at the last minute.
Theodore Schleifer • April 4, 2023
Gaming the Bezos-NFL Silent Auction
Is Jeff Bezos really sitting out the chance to land the most coveted job in Washington? Or has he found a way to circumvent the public campaign process for the Commanders entirely?
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Julia Alexander • January 11, 2023
The Amazon Sports Bundling Fallacy
Why would Amazon, which has the most appealing bundle on the planet, spin out sports? Especially when a cleaner option could exist within its own digital walls.
Jeff Bezos
Theodore Schleifer • December 28, 2022
Bezos’s NFL Dreams & S.B.F.’s First Campaign
Will the league let the man behind Thursday Night Football also own one of the teams in the game? Well, if you’re willing to pay 30x what you did for The Washington Post, anything is possible.
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Dylan Byers • July 22, 2022
The Tao of Ari’s Abs & Licht’s Deck Chairs
Notes on the yacht-hosing photo of our age, the latest dish on Apple’s battle with Amazon over N.F.L. rights, and the Chris Licht narrative shift.
Eddy Cue
Dylan Byers • July 13, 2022
Is Apple’s Eddy Cue About to Get NFL’s Sunday Ticket?
As I learned at Sun Valley, and in subsequent conversations, the deal will likely come in significantly higher than $2 billion a year.
Tom Brady
Dylan Byers • May 13, 2022
The Tom Brady Conundrum
Is Tom Brady worth nearly $400 million as a broadcaster? The critics say no. But, they also concede, what is Fox without the N.F.L.—and, ergo, without him?