NFL putting playoff game exclusively on streaming service for first time ever

TO GET THE STUPID GAME AND PAY FOR THE STREAMING SERVICE TO GET A PLAYOFF GAME >> LISTEN, NBC NUNVERSAL I PAYING $100 MILLION TO PUT IT ON PEACOCK IN THE HOPES THAT THIS WILL COME IN BIG AND A BUNCH O PEOPLE WILL SUBSCRIBE. WHY IS THAT HAPPENING? LOOK AT THIS GRAPHIC THE TOP 100 BROADCASTS OF TH PAST YEAR. LOOK HOW MUCH OF IT WAS PR FOOTBALL THAT’S ALL FOOTBALL. THERE IS A LITTLE TURKEY THAT IS THE MACY’S DAY PARADE. THERE IS AN OSCAR STATUE AND THAT’S THE OSCARS. THERE ARE A COUPLE OF COLLEG FOOTBALL GAMES

IN HERE POLITICAL PROGRAMMING. BUT FOOTBALL EVERYWHERE. THE AUDIENCE IS THERE. THERE IS POTENTIALLY A HUG NUMBER OF EYE BALLS YOU CAN PULL INTO THE STREAM. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL ALIENATING THE FANS THAT TUN IN NECESSARY DISCLOSURE HERE, PEACOCK IS OWNEDED BY NB UNIVERSAL. I WANT TO BRING IN COHOST OF THE PRESS BOX POD, BRYAN CURTIS. THANK YOU FOR COMING ON. >> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME PLEASURE TO BE HERE. >> THERE IS A LOT OF YELLING AND ANGST AND ANXIETY ABOUT THE FACT THAT PEOPLE HAVE TO GET PEACOC TO WATCH THIS GAME WHAT SAY YOU

>> IT REMINDS ME OF WHEN WE WERE KIDS IN THE ’80s AND ’90s AN THERE WAS ONE KID IN THE HOUSE WHO KNEW HOW TO PROGRAM

THE VC AND PEOPLE ARE LIKE, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? I HAD A CONVERSATION WITH MY UNCLE WHO SAID HE WATCHES EVER GAME AND HE IS SCREAMING AT ME LIKE HOW DO DO I WATCH THE GAME? AND I WAS LIKE, WELL, YOU HAVE A PHONE AND A COMPUTER, DON’T YOU? WE ARE STEPPING INTO THE FUTUR OF PROGRAMMING IT IS GOING TO BE WEIRD. >> DO YOU THINK THIS SAY

SOMETHING ABOUT THE LONGTERM STRATEGY SETTING ASIDE THE FACT THA PEOPLE WANT TO SEE TRAVIS KELC AND PERHAPS TAYLOR SWIFT WHO WILL LIKELY SHOW UP, PEOPLE WH WANT TO SEE THEM SHORT-TERM WILL GET A SUBSCRIPTION TALK ABOUT THE LONGTERM PLAY HERE, THE PROS AND THE CONS. >> THE GRAPHIC YOU PUT U EXPLAINS IT. THE NFL IS THE KING OF TELEVISION THE NFL ALSO WANTS TO BE THE KING OF STREAMING, NOT NUMBE TWO IN STREAMING BEHIN YELLOWSTONE OR WHATEVER SHOW I OUT THERE. THEY WANT TO BE NUMBER ONE THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY HAVE THIS MAYBE

YOU SACRIFICE THIS WITH 30 MILLION. I HAVE SEEN PREDICTIONS THAT MAYBE THIS IS AT 20 MILLION. PEACOCK ONLY HAS ABOUT 2 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS. YOU ARE SACK FIGHTING SOMETHIN TO OWN THE FUTURE. >> DO YOU THINK, I KNOWIA DON’ HAVE A CRYSTAL BALL BUT YOU LOOK AT THE BACKLASH HERE, DO YOU THINK IN THREE YEARS, WE WIL LOCK BACK FIVE YEARS AT SOME O THE MOMENTS AND SAY, CAN YOU BELIEVE WE WERE UPSET ABOUT THIS KIND OF THING? >> ABSOLUTELY SO FIRST OF ALL, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BIGGER BACKLASH IF YOU PHILADELPHIA EAGLES WERE PLAYING THE

GAME >> BE NICE, PLEASE >> BUT NO, I’M SERIOUS I THINK WE WILL LOCK BACK AN SAY THIS WAS A WEIRD MOMENT IN TIME WHEN WE KIND OF KNEW WA STREAMING WAS BUT NOT EVERYONE AND WE GOT OVER IT QUICKLY STREAM. STREAM. YOU GET IT, YOU ARE PART OF THE WAVE OF FUTURE AND SO ARE YOU.