Nobody seriously thought they would be......................
I hope Fox got a good deal, as ratings will continue to decline.
LOCK ‘EM UP!!
*YAWN*
Will not be watching at all.
Was anyone else bidding
Here’s hoping they lose a ton of money.
Well, that's the death knell for any decent quality productions from Fox Studio. Disney is the black hole of creativity.
I sure hope the contract has provision for rebates of rights fees, when the ratings don’t achieve the targets anticipated.
I’m sure the attorneys saw to that.
In the current environment, committing to five years seems like a long time. Between declining interest in the NFL, and ongoing erosion of the TV audience migrating away from cable, I’m sure hope the attorneys and spreadsheet bean counter types were listened to when they discussed these matters.
Unfortunately, the NFL isn’t going anywhere. They are a multi billion dollar enterprise and can afford to take a 10%-15% hit on ratings. It really does seem like they are firing their conservative customers and going all in with Generation Snowflake.
Fine with me as long as they lose those ridiculous ‘Color Rush’ uniforms for TNF games.
I wonder how much the NFL had to pay them?
Thursday nights, from a network perspective, are the key night of programming on their schedule.
Sunday garners the biggest audiences but Thursday has the biggest revenue share of the week. The main reason being big dollars are spent on advertising movies opening for the weekend.
I never watch Thursday night football unless Pittsburgh plays, well, used to anyways. I see it as a huge gamble.
You can develop a lot of pilots for $450-500 million and one or more will become a hit. From a network standpoint I don’t think I would have done a long term deal with the NFL for more than the current contract for obvious reasons.
The reasoning for doing this because of the loss of 20th Century Fox being sold to Disney is specious. Networks buy shows from competing studios all the time. The loss of financial interest in syndication though is a factor.
Still, bad move in today’s sports entertainment environment.
Bad deal for Fox, the NFL will shrink to half of what it was.
Maybe, they can find an audience without 35 million Mexican/Central Americans and other non American Born people.
There will be a few of us old goats boycotting them.
Oh if only I could fail like the NFL “fails”. Whatever the chattering crowd here insists is on its deathbed you should invest in, they all have profits go up.
Glad I’m not a shareholder.
Well.... OK
I hope they like their Albatross
I am “taking a knee” when it comes to watching the NFL. I have much better things to do.
NFL clearly wants to win back the FOX viewers as NFL understands them to be.
BTW, FOX has the best football announcers, color, etc if any network. But I’ll bet that did not enter the NFL thinking. It was all about the “winning back the FOX type of viewer”.
Faux makes yet another bad choice.