Darren Rovell at ESPN says that Fox bought the rights to the next five years’ worth of Thursday Night Football from the NFL for over $60 million per game. He points out that players hate playing on Thursdays because that doesn’t give them enough time to heal from the previous Sunday’s game, but NFL commissioner Goodell said, “We will continue to work with the NFLPA to make the shorter week more attractive in a way that is better for our players.” The obvious answer is to only play on a Thursday when it’s after a bye week. Anyway, it’s great to see some content stay freely available on over-the-air TV, unlike …

Star Trek: Discovery hasn’t driven enough subscribers to the CBS All Access OTT service, if you believe the numbers crunched by Colin Dixon of nScreenMedia (which isn’t a typo, honest). He points out that Discovery is the least-viewed Star Trek series ever, writing “CBS’s decision to release the show through All Access appears to have deprived it of most of its audience.” (Although with the general decline of OTA ratings since ST: Enterprise ended in May 2005, that might have been true even if it had stayed on CBS.) All Access seems unlikely to make its goal of 8 million subscribers by 2020.

Finally, Chris Johnston of BBC News wrote last week that pay-TV provider Sky was going to make all its channels and content available online. Despite the article’s title, “Sky signals the end of the satellite dish”, the company said it didn’t plan to stop broadcasting by satellite. And I would add, yet. Satellites are darned expensive compared to internet delivery, so if the latter improves, we might see less and less of the former.