Citing metrics and strategic importance to the companies below, which of these television/online entities in your opinion benefited the most from its acquisition of the rights to exhibit NFL games on its distribution platform? Please give a synopsis of each one’s goals and rationale for becoming a successful NFL ‘Wannabe” before explaining the one you have selected.
1 ABC’s Monday Night Football (1970) 2 ESPN’s Sunday Night Football (1987) 3. Fox’s NFC package (1994) 4. DIRECTV NFL Sunday Ticket (1994) 5. NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football (2006) 6. CBS, NBC and Fox broadcast television of TNF (2014-) 7. Twitter NFL TNF (2016) 8. Amazon Prime’s NFL TNF (2017-)
