Amazon and the National Football League announced today that in 2023 Prime Video will air the rescheduled Black Friday game exclusively on the Friday after Thanksgiving. The NFL’s first Black Friday game will be played on Friday, November 24, 2023. Kick-off is scheduled for 3:00 PM ET. Participating teams will be announced when the 2023 schedule is released.
“Thanksgiving is football and we can’t wait to bring our fans another exciting day in the NFL this weekend,” said Hans Schroeder, chief operating officer of NFL Media. “Amazon is in a unique position to partner with us on this game, as Black Friday is one of the most important days of the year for their business.”
“Friday Night Football has already proven to be a huge success with Prime Video, reaching millions of viewers every week, and we look forward to expanding our relationship with the NFL with the opening of Black Friday starting next year.” , said Jay Marin, Globaler President. Sport, Prime Video. “Black Friday is the unofficial start of the holiday season and we are so excited to start it by giving football fans across the country this new game.”
“We are thrilled to support the NFL, the incredible response we have received from viewers of our show, and thrilled to offer fans another game featuring Al, Kirk, Kaylee and Kamel. TNF “Black Friday of 2023,” Marie Donoghue, vice president of Global Sports Video, told Amazon.
Through the first five games of his inaugural season on Prime Video, Thursday night of football According to Nielsen Media Research, it has an average of 10.8 million viewers and is + 48% more than the top five TNF games in 2021 among viewers in the hard-to-reach 18-34 age group and over 25% in the adult population 18 to 49 years.
The NFL is the most valuable content in the sports and entertainment landscape as NFL games make up all 34 most viewed TV shows in early September. In the fifth week of the 2022 regular season, the number of spectators at NFL games averaged 16.8 million spectators per game.
The NFL and Amazon initially partnered to distribute the games under the tri-cast distribution model (along with NBC, CBS and NFL). Thursday night of football During the 2017 season, that relationship was expanded in the spring of 2021 when Prime Video acquired the rights to be the exclusive home of the NFL’s first all-digital package. Thursday night of football.
Prime Video is the first streaming service to stream an exclusive nationwide all season broadcast package featuring the NFL, new pre-game, halftime and post-game shows, as well as fan-favorite interactive features such as X-Ray and AWS-powered next generation statistics. . Viewers can stream from the web at amazon.com Or with the Prime Video app, available on phones, tablets, set-top boxes, game consoles, smart TVs, and phones and tablets with NFL +. All Thursday night of football The game will also be streamed live on Twitch and available on over-the-air TV channels in the opposing team’s two main markets, as well as in Spanish on Prime Video. That Thursday night of football The TV crew includes legendary theater host Michaels and five-time Emmy winner Kirk Herbstreet on the booth, with award-winning journalist Kylie Hartung on the sidelines.
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