Netflix's inaugural live NFL broadcast on Christmas Day encountered several technical hiccups during its pregame show, despite previous assurances from the streamer following issues during the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight. Viewers experienced brief silence at the start and an unexpected ad interruption mid-segment. Additionally, the scorebug initially displayed an incorrect number of timeouts for the Steelers.
, Wednesday’s Christmas broadcast began with silence while Kay Adams kicked things off, her microphone apparently not on during the opening roughly 10 seconds.
Several minutes later, while Mina Kimes was in the middle of talking, Netflix cut to an ad for Squid Games season 2.Netflix began its first live broadcast of the NFL on Wednesday, with a two-hour pregame show leading up to Chiefs vs. Steelers at 1 p.m. and Ravens vs. Texans at 4:30 p.m. Once the first game began, Netflix’s scorebug showed the Steelers having only two timeouts during the opening drive; it was fixed after several minutes.Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy gifts $60K to struggling pizzeria in impromptu dealThe Wall Street Journal reported Netflix paid $150 million for the two games, and the streamer will get at least one holiday game each of the next two seasons.
Concern was raised about how Wednesday’s broadcasts would go after widespread issues during the Paul-Tyson boxing bout, with many of the roughly 60 million announced viewers experiencing buffering issues.“reassured” that Netflix knew what went wrong and that the issues would be resolved for Christmas, ESPN reported last month.While traffic on the stream will likely increase greatly once the Chiefs and Steelers kick off, the streaming quality held up well early during the pregame show.
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