The Arizona Cardinals-San Francisco 49ers game Saturday at 4:30 p.m. EST will be the first NFL matchup to air nationally and exclusively on Amazon Prime Video and on the company’s Twitch platform, said Amazon Monday. The game will be available to more than 150 million Prime members worldwide and in more than 240 countries and territories excluding China, the U.K., Ireland and Spain. It also will be shown in local markets over the air and on mobile nationally. Amazon is “looking forward to delivering the gift of football on Prime Video this weekend,” said Marie Donoghue, vice president-global sports video. The Prime Video event will give viewers “multiple announcers to choose from, Next Gen Stats, and on-demand replays from X-Ray,” she said. To switch between audio feeds, Prime members go to settings on their video streaming device and select the broadcast of their choice, she said. On Friday at 4:30 p.m. EST, Amazon Prime Video will show the Minnesota Vikings-New Orleans Saints game, which is also being broadcast on Fox, NFL Network, Fox Deportes digital properties and the Vikings, Saints and Yahoo Sports mobile properties. Other “shoulder” NFL programming will be available during the week on Prime Video and Twitch.
The Arizona Cardinals-San Francisco 49ers game Saturday at 4:30 p.m. EST will be the first NFL matchup to air nationally and exclusively on Amazon Prime Video and on the company’s Twitch platform, said Amazon Monday. The game will be available to more than 150 million Prime members worldwide and in more than 240 countries and territories excluding China, the U.K., Ireland and Spain. It also will be shown in local markets over the air and on mobile nationally. Amazon is “looking forward to delivering the gift of football on Prime Video this weekend,” said Marie Donoghue, vice president-global sports video. The Prime Video event will give viewers “multiple announcers to choose from, Next Gen Stats, and on-demand replays from X-Ray,” she said. To switch between audio feeds, Prime members go to settings on their video streaming device and select the broadcast of their choice, she said. On Friday at 4:30 p.m. EST, Amazon Prime Video will show the Minnesota Vikings-New Orleans Saints game, which is also being broadcast on Fox, NFL Network, Fox Deportes digital properties and the Vikings, Saints and Yahoo Sports mobile properties. Other “shoulder” NFL programming will be available during the week on Prime Video and Twitch.
The Arizona Cardinals-San Francisco 49ers game Saturday at 4:30 p.m. EST will be the first NFL matchup to air nationally and exclusively on Amazon Prime Video and on the company’s Twitch platform, said Amazon Monday. The game will be available to more than 150 million Prime members worldwide and in more than 240 countries and territories excluding China, the U.K., Ireland and Spain. It also will be shown in local markets over the air and on mobile nationally. Amazon is “looking forward to delivering the gift of football on Prime Video this weekend,” said Marie Donoghue, vice president-global sports video. The Prime Video event will give viewers “multiple announcers to choose from, Next Gen Stats, and on-demand replays from X-Ray,” she said. To switch between audio feeds, Prime members go to settings on their video streaming device and select the broadcast of their choice, she said. On Friday at 4:30 p.m. EST, Amazon Prime Video will show the Minnesota Vikings-New Orleans Saints game, which is also being broadcast on Fox, NFL Network, Fox Deportes digital properties and the Vikings, Saints and Yahoo Sports mobile properties. Other “shoulder” NFL programming will be available during the week on Prime Video and Twitch.
The FCC dismissed various petitions seeking reconsideration of its order on the 2.5 GHz band, which was approved last year over partial dissents by Democrats (see 1907100054) and is expected to lead to an auction next year. The National Congress of American Indians sought reconsideration of the decision to focus the tribal priority window on rural tribal land. The Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband (SHLB) Coalition and others asked the agency to reinstate the eligibility restrictions it eliminated and allow additional educational use of the band, and the Hawai’i Broadband Initiative filed a recon petition it asked to withdraw. “We affirm the framework the Commission adopted to make available the 2.5 GHz band quickly by eliminating outdated legacy regulations that inhibited full use of the band and establishing flexible-use rules that will allow commercial providers to use this large swath of prime mid-band spectrum to provide 5G and other advanced services to American consumers,” said Thursday's order. Only Commissioner Geoffrey Starks released a statement: The educational broadband service (EBS) model “has not been perfect” but “should have been improved rather than undercut,” he said. “Given our nation’s need for mid-band spectrum and the importance of this spectrum to future wireless broadband service, particularly in tribal communities and rural America, I concur so we can make this spectrum available as soon as possible.” The tribal priority window closed in September with more than 400 applications (see 2009030012). John Windhausen, SHLB Coalition executive director, called the order disappointing Friday: “For many schools, access to EBS spectrum would have been their golden ticket to quickly deploy networks that reach their students without home internet access.” He said the coalition “provided many examples of successful wireless deployments by schools working with private sector companies, and we provided detailed economic evidence that awarding schools EBS licenses would promote economic growth and help address the homework gap.”
President-elect Joe Biden's transition ethics rules governing the FCC, FTC and other agency review teams are relatively weak, some observers said in recent interviews. They pointed to the rules' relatively lax limits on "revolving door" movement of industry officials into the temporary roles that could influence the incoming administration's actions. The landing teams have been working with the FCC, FTC (see 2011250059) and other agencies since late November, when the General Services Administration began allowing the federal government to begin the transition process.
President-elect Joe Biden's transition ethics rules governing the FCC, FTC and other agency review teams are relatively weak, some observers said in recent interviews. They pointed to the rules' relatively lax limits on "revolving door" movement of industry officials into the temporary roles that could influence the incoming administration's actions. The landing teams have been working with the FCC, FTC (see 2011250059) and other agencies since late November, when the General Services Administration began allowing the federal government to begin the transition process.
AMC Entertainment’s “liquidity gap” amid COVID-19's theater closures and low box-office attendance spurred S&P to downgrade the company to CC from CCC-, its second demotion in two months. AMC expects to burn at least $750 million of cash in 2021, “assuming attendance returns to 20% of 2019 levels in the first half of the year and increases to 85% in the second half,” said S&P Wednesday. “Attendance is unlikely to return to these levels in 2021 and we anticipate that the company may need up to $1 billion of incremental capital.” It likely will be difficult for AMC to land “this level of capital outside of a debtor-in-possession financing and thus expect further debt restructurings,” it said. AMC didn’t respond to questions Thursday.
AMC Entertainment’s “liquidity gap” amid COVID-19's theater closures and low box-office attendance spurred S&P to downgrade the company to CC from CCC-, its second demotion in two months. AMC expects to burn at least $750 million of cash in 2021, “assuming attendance returns to 20% of 2019 levels in the first half of the year and increases to 85% in the second half,” said S&P Wednesday. “Attendance is unlikely to return to these levels in 2021 and we anticipate that the company may need up to $1 billion of incremental capital.” It likely will be difficult for AMC to land “this level of capital outside of a debtor-in-possession financing and thus expect further debt restructurings,” it said. AMC didn’t respond to questions Thursday.
Extend the deadline for comments about 4.9 GHz for at least a month, if not two, the Land Mobile Communications Council asked the FCC. Dec. 30 doesn’t “provide sufficient time for interested parties to develop thoughtful input on the novel 4.9 GHz State Band Manager concept proposed in the FNPRM or the Commission’s recommendations for maximizing efficiencies in the coordination,” said a filing posted Tuesday in docket 07-100. Commissioners approved an order 3-2 (see 2009300050).
A federal grand jury in Houston indicted eight for criminal wire fraud and entry of goods by means of false statements for allegedly evading antidumping and countervailing duties by undervaluation and falsely declaring exporters with lower rates, the Department of Justice said in a Dec. 15 news release.