More to come: Bears/Packers game on Prime sets streaming record

[Auggie]

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Chicago Bears come-from-behind victory over the Green Bay Packers in Saturday's wild-card round became the first NFL game to have over 30 million viewers on a streaming service.

The Bears' 31-27 victory averaged 31.61 million on Amazon Prime Video, according to Nielsen, and broke the previous standard by 4 million. That mark was set on Christmas Day, when Minnesota's win over Detroit averaged 27.52 million on Netflix.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47604248/bears-wild-card-win-packers-sets-nfl-streaming-record

Caveat: According to the link, some of the increase can be attributed to a change in the way viewers are counted. Nielsen began using its Big Data + Panel methodology for all events last September with the start of the current television season.

Still, expect the exclusive streaming of spectator sporting events to not only continue, but expand.

Shit.

[yourout]

1. And caused a massive spike in television sales after my fellow cheeseheads through their shoes at the TV

[genxlib]

2. I absolutely hate watching sports on streaming

To this day, sports is the primary reason I have kept cable that has a local hard drive based DVR.

I don't like to watch sports linearly. I like to fast forward through the huddles, timeouts, reviews, commercials, halftime etc. Not to mention sometimes rewatching a play or two. I can watch a 3.5 hour game in an hour.

Streaming is Ok for TV and Movies where it is set and forget but the FF and rewind are just not responsive enough to watch sports without aggravation.

[Xavier Breath]

3. I have some streaming services as a result of my cable package.

I pay for none independently. Now, if an NFL playoff game happens across one of them then sure, I will watch it. But, I won't pay an extra penny for the opportunity to do so.

[Auggie]

4. FYI: The NFL Network rebroadcasts streamed games the following day, sometimes even sooner ...

that's how I watched the second half of the Bears/Packers game. But of course, I already knew of the incredible comeback.

NFL Network is included in the hefty YouTubeTV subscription price of $83.00 a month. Don't know about Xfinity or Hulu.