Originally Posted by Kiimo (Post 17342709)

It's also not your birthright to watch sports for free.

Originally Posted by seamonster (Post 17342693)

I have morals. I'm not giving "the peacock network" -- which is ran by some of the worst humans on earth -- $$ to watch an NFL playoff game. That was one of the lowest forms of price gouging since the WellsFargo "unauthorized" cash withdrawls. NFL cheated and scammed gullible fans. Many of which (poor hapless grandma's) are going to get money sucked out of their accounts for years to come after they forget to cancel the subscription.

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501 (Post 17342615)

I have no doubt that peacock made money. But god the spin zone is strong

- of course it’s the most stream game considering it’s the first ever exclusive internet stream
- they’re hawking this 23m number as if this doesn’t include local as a big chunk of that
- nobody cares how this compares to regular season TNF. Anyone with sense knows that these are 2 very different thing
- nobody cares how this compares to last years lower profile wild card games. We do know that 23m is almost half of the 40m the cowboys game pulled in. And that the Saturday wc game with 2 lesser interest teams pulled in a 30m which suggests that free Saturday night football would have destroyed

So yeah it’s no surprised that they got ahead with the pr spin on this one because you can’t tell me they didn’t leave something at least 20m viewers on the table.

Originally Posted by Womble (Post 17323458)

Whatever happened to America being the Land of the Free?

Originally Posted by kstater (Post 17342736)

My math says about 2 million of the viewers were local. So you're wrong on that point.

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Originally Posted by tk13 (Post 17342759)

Probably not far off, I'd guess 3-4 at most. You're talking 2.5 million-ish people in KC and 6 million in Miami max and you know not everyone in Miami is watching this game on a Saturday night.



The real million dollar mystery is what number NBC was targeting to make it a success. They knew they were going to leave viewers on the table. How many did they need to get to make this all worth it? The factor people aren't considering is everyone who showed up in the ratings watched this on Peacock and had to pay NBC directly, and it's 100% going to them. That may be better than letting twice as many people watch it on antenna or cable companies they don't have control over.

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501 (Post 17338488)

For context the browns/texans had 29m viewers vs the chiefs 23m.
- 1 small market team, the other a low interest team
- no superstars
- not primetime
- no Taylor swift

Beat the team with one of the biggest superstars in sports supported by one of the biggest celebrities in the world by 6M avg viewers. And that’s not including all the bars and the dozens of fans in those bars that chose not to subscribe

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 17342787)

Another thing to consider is how many viewers were already subscribers, producing no incremental revenue (other than advertising views). There are supposedly 30 million subscribers prior to the Chiefs game, which translates to roughly 75 million people. So probably one-quarter of their viewers just had the TV on as opposed to paying extra.

Originally Posted by DRM08 (Post 17342810)

It seemed like a pretty typical NBC broadcast in terms of advertising breaks from the game. Would imagine they made a pretty good chunk of change on the advertising.

Originally Posted by splatbass (Post 17342819)

There were no ads during the 4th quarter. They announced it at the beginning of the quarter. Even breaks like the 2 minute warning they didn’t have any, they showed what was happening on the sidelines. On Peacock anyway, don’t know about broadcast.


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Originally Posted by JohnnyHammersticks (Post 17342651)

There's a noticeable difference between the quality of Streameast vs 720pstream. Especially on a big screen. That's why 720pstream is my go-to. Streameast has a higher-quality version, but you have to register, and I don't use it enough to have gone to the trouble. Probably have to pay extra.