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Netflix’s NFL Christmas Miracle

It looks like Netflix will wind up carrying the two NFL games scheduled for December 25, per a bevy of sources. It’s a first-of-its-kind deal, and almost certainly not the last.
John Ourand • May 10, 2024
John Ourand • April 4, 2024
The NFL Paramount Deal Sweetener
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David Ellison may be most interested in Paramount’s Hollywood studio, and I.P. that he views as underutilized. But he also sees value in the broadcast network, thanks mainly to that NFL deal.
John Ourand • March 21, 2024
Ken Griffin and the $7.5 Billion Dolphins Deal That Wasn’t
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Griffin’s bid for a minority stake in the team, which was foiled by a thwarted path to control, nevertheless creates a new high-water mark for the NFL and its “membership” of billionaires.
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John Ourand • March 15, 2024
College Football’s Final Fantasy
A group of 20-odd executives have banded together to unofficially explore the further migration of college football into a more professionalized and exploitable realm. It’s the latest micro-escalation in what increasingly seems like a foregone conclusion.
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John Ourand • March 12, 2024
Goodell Vibrations
Is the NFL commissioner angling to add an 18th game to the schedule? And will the league’s media partners, which aren’t exactly sitting on mountains of cash, put up a fight?
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John Ourand • February 22, 2024
As Goodell as It Gets
A morality tale about the time that the newly expanded College Football Playoff thought it could program its games during a Saturday slot that the NFL has dominated for years. Nice try, kids!
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John Ourand • February 13, 2024
The NFL’s Lawyers Aren’t Subscribing to the ESPN-Fox-WBD Super Sports Streamer
I learned this weekend in Vegas that the league is having its lawyers examine its contracts with ESPN and Fox to see if it has an out.
Taylor Swift celebrates with fans during the AFC Wild Card Playoffs between the Miami Dolphins and the Kansas City Chiefs at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on January 13, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri.
Julia Alexander • January 17, 2024
Peacock’s Pyrrhic NFL Victory
NBCU may be proudly boasting that 23 million people tuned into Peacock’s exclusive broadcast of the Chiefs-Dolphins playoff game. But sports fans aren’t always sticky streaming customers, and success is rooted in what happens after the game is over.
Was Amazon’s Black Friday game a gimmick, or the future of sports?
Julia Alexander • November 29, 2023
Amazon’s NFL Retail Therapy Experiment
What Prime’s $100 million bet on a Black Friday game portends for the future of live sports on streaming.
YouTube C.E.O Neil Mohan.
Julia Alexander • October 24, 2023
Is the NFL on YouTube the Future of Sports?
YouTube TV’s investment in the Sunday Ticket bundle seems like merely the first step in Alphabet’s larger opportunity of turning the one-time hub of cat videos into the future home for all video—on mobile, sure, but also TV.