Facebook bidding for live-stream rights of Thursday Night Football
Facebook is making a bid to host the NFL’s Thursday Night Football package.
The social media platform is trying to secure the rights for the online live-stream of Thursday night games, vice president of partnerships Dan Rose toldVariety. Others trying to secure the live-stream rights include Amazon and Verizon, the magazine reports.
“We’re talking to a lot of folks about live [video]. There are a ton of types of content that can fit under this format,” Rose said. He added “we’ll see” when asked if Facebook will ultimately secure the live-stream right.
NBC and CBS bought the television rights for the Thursday night package for the next two years. Each network will pay $225 million to broadcast five games each in 2016 and 2017.
• Inside the first-ever Yahoo live-stream of an NFL game
The NFL has been more amenable to showing games online in recent seasons. Last year, Yahoo! hosted the first online live-stream of a regular season game. Playoff games in each of the last two seasons have been live-streamed online, and FOX offers a live-stream option for in-market games with the FOX Sports Go app.
