NFL signs new TV Deal; The Rams could get a Bailout

[Florida_Ram]

Anonymous poster

Whatever restructures they do count against caps for the near future. they've already kind of mortgaged their future with all of these restructuring contracts. I wonder if maybe they won't with Stafford.

The Rams are becoming the sounding block for "you better be careful" because the piper is going to be knocking on your door to collect his money.

Maybe they won't with Stafford CROMWELL " the Anonymous poster" but with all the upcoming TV contracts and the projected massive increase of the salary cap over the next 2 seasons, the Rams might be able to dodge a piercing bullet.

NFL signs new TV deals with ESPN/ABC, FOX, NBC & Amazon
Jas Kang 3 hrs ago

After the pandemic resulted in a major financial hit for the NFL, the league announced new TV deals with ESPN/ABC, FOX, NBC and Amazon. The new contracts will run through the 2033 season, with the networks paying roughly a combined $110 billion, per the Sports Business Journal.

“These new media deals will provide our fans even greater access to the games they love. We’re proud to grow our partnerships with the most innovative media companies in the market,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement.

“Along with our recently completed labor agreement with the NFLPA, these distribution agreements bring an unprecedented era of stability to the League and will permit us to continue to grow and improve our game.”

As part of the deal, Amazon’s streaming service will be the exclusive home of Thursday Night Football, marking the first time in history that the NFL signs a contract with a provider that will exclusively broadcast over-the-top. The deal takes effect for the 2022 campaign. The NFL Network will also air select Thursday matchups throughout the season.

ESPN’s Monday Night Football broadcasts will also be different, beginning with the 2023 season. There will be six Monday doubleheaders each season, with the early game on ESPN followed by the late matchup on ABC.

NFL signs new TV deals with ESPN/ABC, FOX, NBC & Amazon

NFL Agrees to New TV Rights Contracts Reportedly Worth $110B over 11 Years

JOSEPH ZUCKER MARCH 18, 2021

The NFL announced Thursday it signed media-rights deals with Amazon, CBS, ESPN/ABC, Fox and NBC, which will go into effect in the 2023 season.

According to Sports Business Journal's John Ourand and Ben Fischer, the league will collect $10 billion annually over 11 years.

Commissioner Roger Goodell said:

"These new media deals will provide our fans even greater access to the games they love. We're proud to grow our partnerships with the most innovative media companies in the market.

Along with our recently completed labor agreement with the NFLPA, these distribution agreements bring an unprecedented era of stability to the League and will permit us to continue to grow and improve our game."
NFL Agrees to New TV Rights Contracts Reportedly Worth $110B over 11 Years | Bleacher Report | Latest News, Videos and Highlights

The NFL is a money making machine and the future of the salary cap might be way different over the next 2 seasons. Teams that seem like they're in turmoil as of today could look way different this time next year.


Even with all their bad contracts, the Rams may not have to pay the piper as much as we think they will.

 

[kurtfaulk]

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It's got to be said, these owners are the most despicable snakes the world has seen. They cry poor and lower the cap by 10% and then after all the players have been cut and taken less money this season they announce they signed tv deals worth $10b per year for the next 11 years.

Go fuck yourselves you old, greedy cunts.

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[dieterbrock]

They cry poor and lower the cap by 10% and then after all the players have been cut and taken less money this season they announce they signed tv deals worth $10b per year for the next 11 years.

These deals dont start until 2022-2023, and the cap will reflect it

 

[Q729]

Wait, so I have to get Amazon Prime now for TNF? Wtf. Might as well dump NFLN.

NFL finalizes new 11-year media rights deal, Amazon gets exclusive Thursday Night rights

The new agreement runs through 2033 and will feature two Super Bowls returning to Disney's ABC network channel.

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NFL finalizes new 11-year media rights deal, Amazon gets exclusive Thursday Night rights

The National Football League has finalized its new 11-year media rights agreement with a pact that will run through 2033 and could be worth over $100 billion.

The league announced Thursday it's renewing TV rights with all of its existing broadcast partners and adding Amazon Prime Video as an exclusive partner for its Thursday Night Football package. It's the first time a streaming service will carry a full package of games exclusively. Amazon is paying about $1 billion per year, according to people familiar with the matter. Amazon's deal runs 10 years and begins in 2023.

ViacomCBS, Fox and Comcast (which owns NBCUniversal) are all paying more than $2 billion per year for their 11-year-long packages, while Disney (which owns ESPN and ABC) will pay around $2.7 billion annually, according to people familiar with the matter. Using these numbers, the NFL's new agreement projects to be more than $100 billion -- the richest U.S. sports league media deal.

The NFL declined to comment on the total amount of the agreements. ViacomCBS is paying $2.1 billion for its package and NBCUniversal is paying about $2 billion, the lowest of any of the partners, but the highest increase over its previous deal, the people said. NBCUniversal paid $1.1 billion for its previous package, including playoff games.

Fox is also projected to pay over $2 billion in its new contact, but will save $660 million as it relinquishes the Thursday Night Football package. Morgan Stanley estimates that contact will be averaging $400 million in annual losses in 2023 when Fox's agreement expires.

Disney is paying more and receiving more NFL content, including rights to exclusively air an international game each year, beginning in 2022, one of the people said. In this pact, the ESPN network keeps the Monday Night Football package and also has rights to air two Super Bowls on its ABC network. Disney can stream all NFL games that air on ABC and ESPN on ESPN+, the league said.

Disney will now carry 23 games instead of 17 in its previous deal. ABC will air three Monday Night Football games, which will not be double-headers with ESPN because the timing of the games will overlap, one of the people said. ABC will also carry two Saturday games the last week of the NFL season, which could turn into a new Week 18 if the NFL moves forward with adding a week. Disney will also receive a new divisional round playoff game, said the person.

"These new media deals will provide our fans even greater access to the games they love," said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in a statement. "We're proud to grow our partnerships with the most innovative media companies in the market. Along with our recently completed labor agreement with the NFLPA, these distribution agreements bring an unprecedented era of stability to the league and will permit us to continue to grow and improve our game."

"NFL games are the most watched live programming in the United States, and this unprecedented Thursday Night Football package gives tens of millions of new and existing Prime members exclusive access to must-watch live football on Prime Video," said Mike Hopkins, Senior VP of Prime Video and Amazon Studios, in a statement.

The league's National Football Conference (NFC) games will remain with Fox, and CBS Sports will continue to host American Football Conference (AFC) games and stream those contests on its Paramount+ service. NBCUniversal will keep the Sunday Night Football package and use its Peacock service to stream games.

The NFL's Super Bowl rotation is as follows:

• CBS: 2023, 2027, 2031
• FOX: 2024, 2028, 2032
• NBC: 2025, 2029, 2033
• ESPN/ABC: 2026, 2030

The NFL's Covid-19 Super Bowl in February attracted 96.4 million viewers watching the Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Kansas City Chiefs, 31-9. The game was the lowest watched Super Bowl since 2007 when the Indianapolis Colts played the Chicago Bears. That game attracted 93.1 million viewers, according to Octagon's media division data provided to CNBC.

 

[Mackeyser]

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It's got to be said, these owners are the most despicable snakes the world has seen. They cry poor and lower the cap by 10% and then after all the players have been cut and taken less money this season they announce they signed tv deals worth $10b per year for the next 11 years.

Go fuck yourselves you old, greedy cunts.

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[Elmgrovegnome]

Anonymous poster

Whatever restructures they do count against caps for the near future. they've already kind of mortgaged their future with all of these restructuring contracts. I wonder if maybe they won't with Stafford.

The Rams are becoming the sounding block for "you better be careful" because the piper is going to be knocking on your door to collect his money.

Maybe they won't with Stafford CROMWELL " the Anonymous poster" but with all the upcoming TV contracts and the projected massive increase of the salary cap over the next 2 seasons, the Rams might be able to dodge a piercing bullet.

NFL signs new TV deals with ESPN/ABC, FOX, NBC & Amazon
Jas Kang 3 hrs ago

After the pandemic resulted in a major financial hit for the NFL, the league announced new TV deals with ESPN/ABC, FOX, NBC and Amazon. The new contracts will run through the 2033 season, with the networks paying roughly a combined $110 billion, per the Sports Business Journal.

“These new media deals will provide our fans even greater access to the games they love. We’re proud to grow our partnerships with the most innovative media companies in the market,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement.

“Along with our recently completed labor agreement with the NFLPA, these distribution agreements bring an unprecedented era of stability to the League and will permit us to continue to grow and improve our game.”

As part of the deal, Amazon’s streaming service will be the exclusive home of Thursday Night Football, marking the first time in history that the NFL signs a contract with a provider that will exclusively broadcast over-the-top. The deal takes effect for the 2022 campaign. The NFL Network will also air select Thursday matchups throughout the season.

ESPN’s Monday Night Football broadcasts will also be different, beginning with the 2023 season. There will be six Monday doubleheaders each season, with the early game on ESPN followed by the late matchup on ABC.

NFL signs new TV deals with ESPN/ABC, FOX, NBC & Amazon

NFL Agrees to New TV Rights Contracts Reportedly Worth $110B over 11 Years

JOSEPH ZUCKER MARCH 18, 2021

The NFL announced Thursday it signed media-rights deals with Amazon, CBS, ESPN/ABC, Fox and NBC, which will go into effect in the 2023 season.

According to Sports Business Journal's John Ourand and Ben Fischer, the league will collect $10 billion annually over 11 years.

Commissioner Roger Goodell said:

"These new media deals will provide our fans even greater access to the games they love. We're proud to grow our partnerships with the most innovative media companies in the market.

Along with our recently completed labor agreement with the NFLPA, these distribution agreements bring an unprecedented era of stability to the League and will permit us to continue to grow and improve our game."
NFL Agrees to New TV Rights Contracts Reportedly Worth $110B over 11 Years | Bleacher Report | Latest News, Videos and Highlights

The NFL is a money making machine and the future of the salary cap might be way different over the next 2 seasons. Teams that seem like they're in turmoil as of today could look way different this time next year.


Even with all their bad contracts, the Rams may not have to pay the piper as much as we think they will.

I get a kick out of the doom and gloomers. Its funny how many cap experts there are in fan ranks. Snead said he easily could restructure to get enough money to sign the free agents that they wanted to. He wasn't worried, while most fans figured there is no way they sign an except for a first round tender on DWill. They have a lot of dead money coming off the cap next year, plus the cap will go up. This is how it works for teams that play it close to the cap each year. It always makes fans nervous.

 

[Merlin]

What feels different here is that the Rams are exchanging picks to unfuck their mistakes. It's kind of crazy man. It's a huge advantage in a way to quickly reload, massage your cap that's left and use their shrewd eye for talent to still field a good roster.

I feel like the shitty and poor owners are gonna start crying about the parallel of the more wealthy teams having an advantage because they can't liquidate the bonuses left and right like that. Almost like it's a cheat code idk.

 

[jrry32]

I think it's very much the opposite. Keep in mind that there's a lot of strategy that goes into how and where teams allocate money. With the pandemic coming out of nowhere and dropping the salary cap (instead of it increasing), that threw a monkey wrench into all of the strategy we had implemented in years past. But the teams knew they would be negotiating new TV deals and have already been acting with that strategy in mind. What's coming isn't a bail out. It was very much anticipated. What is happening now was not anticipated and is forcing a lot of scrambling/hard decisions.

 

[Mackeyser]

For players signing long term deals this year? SUCKERS.

Short of the few who got big deals, the rest should take the 1 year deals because the deals handed out next year are gonna be OBNOXIOUS...

 

[OldSchool]

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It's got to be said, these owners are the most despicable snakes the world has seen. They cry poor and lower the cap by 10% and then after all the players have been cut and taken less money this season they announce they signed tv deals worth $10b per year for the next 11 years.

Go fuck yourselves you old, greedy cunts.

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Nah your time line is a bit screwed up. They're all greedy though owners and players and TV execs as well.

 

[Zodi]

For players signing long term deals this year? SUCKERS.

Short of the few who got big deals, the rest should take the 1 year deals because the deals handed out next year are gonna be OBNOXIOUS...

If my agent tried to sign me to a long term deal right now, I'd be looking for different representation.

 

[OldSchool]

If my agent tried to sign me to a long term deal right now, I'd be looking for different representation.

I could see some older players wanting to get that last deal but yeah most guys should be signing one or two year deals you'd think.

 

[kurtfaulk]

Nah your time line is a bit screwed up. They're all greedy though owners and players and TV execs as well.

It's just that they felt the need to cut the cap this season when everyone knew a new deal was coming. And how did the players agree to it? What on earth is the nflpa doing?

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[OldSchool]

It's just that they felt the need to cut the cap this season when everyone knew a new deal was coming. And how did the players agree to it? What on earth is the nflpa doing?

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Honestly that has nothing to do with this years cap. The current years cap is based on the previous years league revenue. Total revenue. When the revenue goes up next year with more fans then the cap will go up. When the league collects revenue from these new tv deals the cap will go up. I get it they're rich people are told to hate them. But they did nothing wrong in this the cap went down completely by the revenue loss from covid and it did so based 100% on the CBA the players agreed to. And when revenue goes back up the players will get their share of the increases just like they shared in the losses this year. That's the nature of the CBA.

 

[AvengerRam]

The United States won’t collapse due to its trade deficit, and the Rams won’t collapse because it restructured contracts.

Oh... and that was just a falling acorn. The sky is still up there.

 

[kurtfaulk]

Honestly that has nothing to do with this years cap. The current years cap is based on the previous years league revenue. Total revenue. When the revenue goes up next year with more fans then the cap will go up. When the league collects revenue from these new tv deals the cap will go up. I get it they're rich people are told to hate them. But they did nothing wrong in this the cap went down completely by the revenue loss from covid and it did so based 100% on the CBA the players agreed to. And when revenue goes back up the players will get their share of the increases just like they shared in the losses this year. That's the nature of the CBA.

I get it man but it didn't need to done that way. The cba didn't forecast a global pandemic. It was hammered out before the pandemic took hold.

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[Zodi]

I get it man but it didn't need to done that way. The cba didn't forecast a global pandemic. It was hammered out before the pandemic took hold.

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Likewise, the CBA didn't forecast record setting broadcast deals-- I would assume especially with the likes of Amazon. Players will see more money when not only those deals kick in, but when fans return to games.. Thats the nature of collectively bargaining and revenue/profit sharing: you share the ups and downs.

From my understanding, if the owners got their way completely, the loss of revenue this last season would've had an even bigger impact on the cap this season because they wanted to swallow the loss this year and not drag it on. I think they budged a little tho.

 

[dieterbrock]

I get it man but it didn't need to done that way. The cba didn't forecast a global pandemic. It was hammered out before the pandemic took hold.

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And the players got a bigger slice of the pie.
On paper the cap went down, but the reality is that it didnt, look at the contracts being signed. These guys are all getting their money, they just need fugazy accounting.
You're not hearing a peep out of the players union, why? Because it isnt affecting them

 

[fearsomefour]

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It's got to be said, these owners are the most despicable snakes the world has seen. They cry poor and lower the cap by 10% and then after all the players have been cut and taken less money this season they announce they signed tv deals worth $10b per year for the next 11 years.

Go fuck yourselves you old, greedy cunts.

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I don’t think anyone is crying poor.
They have a contract.
Earnings went down, so the cap goes down.
The cap is based on earnings.
So it goes.

 

[fearsomefour]

Honestly that has nothing to do with this years cap. The current years cap is based on the previous years league revenue. Total revenue. When the revenue goes up next year with more fans then the cap will go up. When the league collects revenue from these new tv deals the cap will go up. I get it they're rich people are told to hate them. But they did nothing wrong in this the cap went down completely by the revenue loss from covid and it did so based 100% on the CBA the players agreed to. And when revenue goes back up the players will get their share of the increases just like they shared in the losses this year. That's the nature of the CBA.

Just goes to show, as I’ve always said, how little the cap and earnings have to do with fans in the seats.
That is the last consideration for earnings.