Week 3 TV Maps

[George Cantstandya]

(09-23-2021, 10:16 PM)Bengalstripes9 Wrote: This will be a game changer. Whatever streaming service gets it will rake in the dough. I think Disney could be the ones to get it. Don't they already have ESPN? I'm not a big fan of Amazon. Might have to be if they get the rights..

You are right, Disney owns the majority of ESPN and it seems the Disney+ service has defiantly taken off.  A quick search on number of global subscribers shows 116 million for Disney+. So Disney is defiantly a contender especially since like you said they own ESPN.  As we know ESPN has been the provider for Monday Night Football for some time now.  

A quick search shows Amazon has 200 million global subscribers.  Amazon has been streaming select Thursday night games since 2017.  It was announced in May Amazon will be the exclusive provider of Thursday Night Football starting in 2022 and through 2033.  So the NFL also seems interested in working with Amazon.

Personally I would prefer Amazon get it as I'm already a Prime subscriber and I'd rather not subscribe to Disney+ if I wanted to purchase Sunday Ticket.  I may not even be interested in Sunday Ticket anyway as I live in the Cincinnati area so I can always watch Bengals games.  But if the price was right I might purchase it just to have a choice of other games to watch when the Bengals are not playing.