Football on Amazon Prime and Thursday night is more than just football

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The match between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Kansas City Chiefs is televised on Amazon
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. Please stop and think about the exuberant meaning of this development.

For example, how easily we forget that the idea of ​​NFL football taking place on any day but Sunday was once ridiculed. So he was excluded from ABC
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The third haul among the “Big Three” TV networks, it won the TV broadcasting rights on Monday
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(MNF) starting in 1970 just for CBS
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and NBC
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I walked away from the opportunity in an arrogant manner. So did Anheuser-Busch (AB).

You see, it wasn’t just the leading networks that made fun of “Monday Night Football,” but it was also the best beer brand. As most readers know, televised NFL games are a great way to market beer because viewers tend to drink it while watching. Anheuser-Busch’s problem was that its executives viewed Monday’s NFL games as arrogantly as the Tiffany Network executives.
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(CBS) I did. Miller lacked brand recognition to be highly selective, only because of his ads on what became a Monday night establishment to prove he was an incentive to increase market share. ‘Taste great, less satiating’ has become a thing thanks to professional football which Monday night became one of the top players phenomenon.

Two of the Big Three networks and Budweiser makers got it wrong, and they did it surprisingly well. Their deep regret for misunderstanding the power of Mondays is a statement of what is now clear, and a reminder that in matters of business, the future is more than opaque.

Which is why one would hope that politicians and analysts, keen to use government power to neutralize big tech companies, are familiar with Amazon and the NFL. Even better, one hopes that they will use the MNF in aggregate as a “teaching moment” that will awaken them to the folly of their positions. They should start with grids and AB.

Their transmission of what has proven to be a reminder that “market power” in business brings new meaning to a fleeting time. This is the case because business giants always stumble, and they always stumble because when it comes to consumer likes, tomorrow is another country.

The evidence supporting the above claim is Amazon itself. think about it. At the moment, its market capitalization is around $1.3 trillion, which is a staggering number. All readers need to know in an effort to understand what Jeff Bezos and his brave team of commercial outsiders have accomplished is the magnitude of the scale.

The simple fact is that while the markets may not be completely efficient, it is a known quantity that we have never encountered in a stray $20 bill on the street simply because what is so valuable (even in 2022 dollars) is snapped up almost instantly. Looking at Amazon’s valuation perspective, the fact that it’s so huge is vociferous evidence that commercial powers – viewed online commerce – are far more disdainful than their high-profile TV and beer executive counterparts to Monday’s professional football in 1970.

No business deliberately allows trillion+ jobs to pass, a sign that the most successful retailers of the 1990s saw what Bezos and others were doing with Amazon, only to return to what they considered a more important business. missed opportunity. Once again, the giants falter. Always

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City was the top flying stock in the ’80s, but it’s gone today. blockbuster video
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It was seen as so powerful until 2005 that the Federal Trade Commission
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Her attempt to buy Hollywood Video was blocked. It’s funny that while Blockbuster was drooling in a Hollywood video, he was pointing his nose at Netfix….what is this about stumbling giants?

Back on Amazon, how ridiculous it is to report on ESPN
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the unparalleled athletic giant when he was 21^Street The century has begun, and one of its stars (Kirk Herbstreet) has been allowed to moonlight on Amazon Thursday night football. How quickly things change. In 2006, the dominant network ESPN acquired the broadcast rights to Monday Night Football. Thinking of the world leader in sports, when the 80s started, she almost went bankrupt, so her finances were facing challenges. Really, how can a cable network in Bristol, Connecticut
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Compete with the Big Three?

Well, the previously nascent network whose founder Bill Rasmussen was kept afloat with credit cards in the early ’80s had a way to purchase the brightest night in the NFL-dom soon after 21^Street century began. NB
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Here is that the idea that Amazon had a role in anything NFL-related could have been a laughing stock in 2006 given its nickname “Amazon.org”. The NFL only deals with established companies, thank you very much.

This is why September 15, 2022 is so important. Amazon NFL TV? No one would have laughed at it in 2006 just because the mere thought of such an odd pairing was too strange to reasonably discuss. That Amazon “broadcast its games on TV” with ESPN’s Herbstreit and network TV legend Al Michaels is just further evidence of how little business can expect in the past or present in the future.

However, politicians and analysts want to dismantle Amazon and other “big tech” icons. You have
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Have no sense of history? Don’t they know that when former MNF commentator OJ Simpson was being considered for his leadership role in terminator, That executives turned Simpson down because viewers would never believe him as violent? True story.

What’s also true is that Amazon Prime’s NFL is so thoroughly cynical about antitrust and historically challenged they are that they’re suspicious of “Big Tech.” If you’re still in doubt, just turn on your computer or smartphone to watch the NFL on Thursday.