Facebook is not quite ready for some football, as Bloomberg reported that the social network has dropped out of the bidding to livestream Thursday-night National Football League games.
According to Bloomberg, two factors led to Facebook’s decision to punt: The social network prefers that its video content remain commercial-free, which NFL games obviously are not, and the early start times of the league’s London games (the 2015 London game kicked off at 9:30 a.m. ET/6:30 a.m. PT), which are part of the streaming package.
Verizon Communications, Yahoo (which has live-streamed previous NFL games from London) and Amazon are reportedly still involved in the bidding process.
Readers: Did Facebook do the right thing in dropping out of the bidding to livestream NFL games?
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