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.
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zaklee
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No way was I going to pay to watch the game. I found that 106.5 The Wolf in Kansas City was going to live stream the game. However, it turns out our daughter and son-in-law already had Peacock, so we went over there to watch the game. We left at half time, and when we got home, I downstreamed the rest of the game on my computer. It was much more exciting listening to the local announcers than the Peacock guys.
Gotta meet those DEI goals and objectives.
So VERY TRUE! Sorry to say, however, there are those so desperate they'll PAY the $6 fee to watch... interestingly enough, the game wasn't much of a contest as reflected by the score and the stats.
This is just my opinion, but, SOMEONE will take out Kansas City just as surely as Dallas got THUMPED unexpectedly!
Don’t even get me started on the Rams. Since they left St. Louis, we have become Chiefs fans. Also, our son and daughter-in-law live in KCMO. I can see why they like living there.
You couldn't have made it any CLEARER. Those DESPERATE enough would and WILL PAY even MORE!
Yeah KC is great except for the winter time.
Go team! Rah!
“Subscription” is the new business model and mantra.”
I don’t subscribe. I have internet cable, subscribing to channels does not interest me. I come from a background of radio communications among other things and I refuse to pay for signal. I don’t steal it either. But occasionally I’ll catch a Sports show or whatever at the restaurant that I’m dining or the diner that I’m lunching at, or in the hospital or doctors waiting room if they have some inane channel on I will usually just walk up and change it to something like The Weather Channel or perhaps the Home and Garden Channel. But I don’t give a rat’s ass about what a talking head thinks about or is trying to espouse.
“Hockey is the only sport that matters.”
I can agree with that, however I like the slower flag version of hockey.. it’s called golf.
True. My son said his kids have not been in school for a week and they have not been out of the house since last Thursday.
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