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>Amazon has wanted to put sports rights on its Amazon Prime video service,

Amazon wants me to cancel my Prime Video Service....

I would have rather gotten Season 3-n of Alpha House than Football or any other sports.. If they start investing in sports over premium content they can count me out...

I have been a prime member almost from the beginning of prime, I own 6 fireTV devices, and a few Kindle's, I am deep in the Amazon eco system, I will rip them all out over sports..

I dropped cable TV originally because I grew tried of most of my payment going to subsidize sports, and having my channels interrupted with "Live Sports"

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So if they pocketed the $50 million or did share buybacks or similar you'd be ok, but you have an ideological problem with sports and will cancel over them?

He's probably concerned that going forward a certain large percentage of his "Prime" subscription will go toward sports, just like cable:

https://consumerist.com/2014/08/05/espn-accounts-for-more-th...

...I doubt Amazon will get that bad, but it's definitely a good reason to currently avoid cable. Really, for people who don't like sports, the notion that watching people throw a ball around costs vastly more than the other channels is baffling. I really don't want some heavyweight imbeciles getting my money when I want to watch news/movies/comedy/etc.

This just seems like such a strange attitude, given the veritable ocean of non-sports content out there at the moment. If your show got cancelled, it's almost certainly not because of sports; rather, it's exceedingly likely that it's up against some other show (or shows) which drew a larger audience.

In fact, realize that up until very recently a great deal of non-sports content only got created because sports were used as leverage against the cable companies. The bundling that happened on major cable networks required cable companies to carry channels which comparatively few people watch in order for the cable company to be allowed to carry e.g. ESPN. If you're a fan of indie content/comedy, you should be happy about the existence of ESPN et al, otherwise your show would likely not exist.

That's funny, because if they had made another season of Alpha House instead of getting Thursday Night Football, I would have cancelled my Prime subscription. It all evens out in the end I guess.

>> It all evens out in the end I guess.

unlikely, most of the cord cutters I know did so for simlair reasons to me. We have no intrest in sports and grew tried of the Sports Tax on our entertainment content.

Most of the people I know that still subscribe to a traditional packaged TV service do so mainly because of live sports

Amazon is attempting to get more people to "cut the cord" with this move, but they are risking alienating the people that already have.

Where did it say they were transferring funding from Alpha House to ThNF?

They cancelled Alpha House awhile back, I do not believe I implied they cancelled because of NFL, I simply stated I think the 50 million would have been better spent on that show than buying any NFL garbage

That said every company has a Budget, and the 50 Million they are giving to the NFL for their over priced waste of time is 50 Million they could have spent on quality original entertainment, or buying some back catalog somewhere.

personally I would get more enjoyment if they released a video of Jeff Bezos burning 50 Million in a 55 Gallon drum...

//I can not stand the NFL....

So it was fine when my logistics membership was subsidizing your TV viewing, but now that Amazon is offering something I want to watch, it's awful they are using memberships to subsidize something not everyone wants?

Okay then.

>So it was fine when my logistics membership was subsidizing your TV viewing,

No, it is not. I have also advocated for a Shipping only Prime.

I have a problem with the "Everything including the Kitchen Sink" Prime,

Why does it have to be either/or?

Clearly not everyone agrees with you but honestly I'm in the same boat.

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