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NBC Bragged About Streaming Numbers for Peacock-Only Playoff Game, and Fans Didn’t Want to Hear It
Sports Illustrated ^ | January 14, 2024 | KARL RASMUSSEN

Posted on 01/14/2024 8:48:58 PM PST by Steven Scharf

NBC Bragged About Streaming Numbers for Peacock-Only Playoff Game, and Fans Didn’t Want to Hear It KARL RASMUSSEN

NBC announced its ratings for the Peacock-exclusive NFL Playoff game between the Miami Dolphins and Kansas City Chiefs on Saturday night.

The network boasted some massive numbers for the game, which aired exclusively on NBC’s streaming service. According to NBC, the wild-card round game was the most streamed event of any kind ever in the United States, with more than 23 million viewers tuning in.

While the network was pleased with the viewership milestones, fans weren’t quite so ecstatic. Those who didn’t have a subscription to the platform but wanted to watch game didn’t have much choice but to pay for one.

Fans on social media weren’t fans of NBC boasting its record-setting ratings after the game, and they voiced their complaints on X.

(Excerpt) Read more at si.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: blmsycophants; cnbc; football; greed; msnbc; nbc; nfl; nobrainscollectively; nofansleft; transsycophants
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To: Newbomb Turk

$110 million.


41 posted on 01/15/2024 2:38:01 AM PST by stationkeeper
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To: Drew68

Hold that pose, Taylor.


42 posted on 01/15/2024 3:12:45 AM PST by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: Drew68

“Hey Mr. Travis, I’m here to stay,
I’m over 30 and has come my day”

“With my fat red lips, It’s not no maybe,
I’m really desperate, and I need that baby”

“So listen one and all, it’s long past fall,
Not in the song, but I’ve hit the wall.”

“Got us all on the tv, for all to see,
Now you can’t back out, cause it’s me, me, me”

“Try something different, and do me wrong,
I’ll, blast it out on my next new song”


43 posted on 01/15/2024 3:26:49 AM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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To: drSteve78

It’s a game about selvedge.


44 posted on 01/15/2024 3:35:57 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: VanShuyten; All

Top tier of XM satellite radio
has all the NFL. $29 per month but if
you listen enough—many channels—the
less than $1/day is worth it.
In 2022 I paid $3 for one month of
MLB audio so I could hear baseball
playoffs at work (I work nights),
then cancelled.
Last year I used XM for all of that.


45 posted on 01/15/2024 3:47:51 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: Steven Scharf

“Those who didn’t have a subscription to the platform but wanted to watch game didn’t have much choice but to pay for one.”

Sure there was another choice... Just say no.


46 posted on 01/15/2024 4:25:02 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Wow.


47 posted on 01/15/2024 4:27:55 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: Steven Scharf

Everyone should stop watching and start paying attention to what the Government is doing to us. The NFL is just there to take your eye off the ball.


48 posted on 01/15/2024 4:35:58 AM PST by spincaster
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To: Newbomb Turk

I ordered it about 20 minutes before the game and cancelled during the game. My rationality was based on renting movies for the grandkids at sometimes $20 per movie on Netflix etc.

Subscription is good till 13 Feb so the wife can now finish season 4 and 5 of Yellowstone.

It’s all a scam...the old cable days weren’t that bad.


49 posted on 01/15/2024 4:41:50 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Steven Scharf
The only streaming service I'd ever consider paying for is Britbox. But most of the stuff on Britbox that I'd like is available on DVD so I'd say “no” to it as well. Peacock? Sorry,not in this lifetime!
50 posted on 01/15/2024 4:48:37 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: thegagline

There’s only about 6 teeth among them.


51 posted on 01/15/2024 4:52:22 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: raccoonradio

I keep getting emails from them saying $5 a month.


52 posted on 01/15/2024 4:53:23 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: Steven Scharf

Well good for Disney. They should make all the games like that. Maybe people will wise up and get out and do something instead of wasting their time on a stupid football game.


53 posted on 01/15/2024 5:08:09 AM PST by Dandy (Drain the swamp baby!!!)
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To: yldstrk; All

“NBC and Peacock ought to be ashamed of themselves. Greed. Pure greed.”

That’s what Marxists say about all Capitalists who have a product people are willing to pay for.....

How many here have become less than the constitutional, conservative, pro-capitalists that they have claimed to be - by slow and gradual brainwashing, without ever realizing it?

Funny how a small personal inconvenience show the shallowness of one’s principles and convictions.


54 posted on 01/15/2024 5:28:17 AM PST by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: piytar

That game was only streamed on NBC? I had no idea since I could not have cared less about it.

And I’m a HUGE football fan. Disappointed in my Browns. Stroud was amazing. Dallas’ D was horrible. Could run through a ton of stats if someone wants.

But this game did not even hit my radar. Just didn’t care.

Only streamed? Huh. Who knew.
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It’s not credible that one would not be aware when the defending Super Bowl champion team, the Kansas City Chiefs, was playing in the playoffs or the controversy surrounding the NFL’s extortion of the fans for money. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.


55 posted on 01/15/2024 5:28:35 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: yldstrk

Fair enough. Guess I just don’t like KC or Peacock. LOL.


56 posted on 01/15/2024 5:33:17 AM PST by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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To: trebb

So “NBC and Peacock ought to be ashamed of themselves. Greed. Pure greed.”

That’s what Marxists say about all Capitalists who have a product people are willing to pay for.....

How many here have become less than the constitutional, conservative, pro-capitalists that they have claimed to be - by slow and gradual brainwashing, without ever realizing it?

Funny how a small personal inconvenience show the shallowness of one’s principles and convictions.
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So now I am a Marxist?
I already pay for Dish and Sports TV or whatever comes with DISH. I called and said to DISH I only buy DISH for football and if you can’t provide me with football, what is the point of me buying DISH? I certainly didn’t buy it to watch Bluebloods. So I suppose if I didn’t have Dish, I wouldn’t mind paying for Peacock if Peacock had all the football, but no, Peacock doesn’t have all the football. Amazon Prime has Thursday Night football. Sunday Ticket has some football. So you and your “capitalism” is awesome don’t have it right either.


57 posted on 01/15/2024 5:39:08 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: piytar

Fair enough. Guess I just don’t like KC or Peacock. LOL.
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That’s how I feel about the Seahawks LOL


58 posted on 01/15/2024 5:41:51 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: Blue Highway
the ones the cut the cord and ditched cable, only to be once again strapped down with monthly tv bills

Such is life in the Circusphere. Addicts will even choose it over their daily bread.

59 posted on 01/15/2024 5:44:42 AM PST by Sirius Lee (Next week on The Bickersons...)
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To: maddog55

Since you have it for a month I’d recommend taking a look at Poker Face. I really enjoyed it spectrum gave me a free year of Peacock. I’m keeping it just for that. Paying extra so I can watch all of Law and Order as well as the Chicago shows the day after air broadcast without commercials


60 posted on 01/15/2024 5:55:36 AM PST by organicchemist (Without the second amendment, the first amendment is just talk)
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