Twitter wins bidding war to stream NFLs

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Twitter wins bidding war to stream NFLs

Twitter has outbid the likes of Amazon, Yahoo! Inc. and Verizon for the Junior Fernandez Jersey right to stream Thursday night online next season. This fall Thursday Night Football will be streamed live so fans will see more of this. -- Roger Goodell (@nflcommish) Facebook reportedly withdrew from the running days ago because the two sides couldn't agree on advertising.More details via :The deal gives Twitter a key piece of content to attract mainstream users in its quest to make its service a go-to place to react to and discu s live events. The NFL, aware that a growing number of households are comfortable streaming video Dakota Hudson Jersey over the Internet, is using the digital rights for Thursday night games to reach so-called cord-cutters, as former cable-TV subscribers are known.The said in a pre s release that Twitter wills stream 10 Thursday night regular-season games -- the same 10 games that CBS and NBC will broadcast -- and NFL Network will broadcast the other six games on the Thursday night schedule. Last June, Lou Brock Jersey the NFL partnered with Yahoo! Inc. Bills-Jaguars game that took place in London."The NFL has always been committed to being at the forefront of media innovation," NFL commi sioner Roger Goodell said at the time in a pre s release. "... W e are taking another important step in that direction as we continue to closely monitor the rapidly evolving digital media landscape." wrote at the time that "Industry executives familiar with the Marcell Ozuna Jersey NFL's negotiations think Yahoo paid at least $20 million for the rights to stream the game; in return it has exclusive ad rights for the game. The league bid out the streaming rights and at least one other tech company made a very competitive offer." On Tuesday, 's Peter Kafka writes that, "people familiar with the bidding said Twitter paid le s than $10 million for entire 10 game package, Chris Carpenter Jersey while rival bids had been higher than $15 million."
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