NFL Expands Media Footprint, Launches League-Branded Streaming Service
25.07.2022 - 16:11
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The NFL has launched a league-branded subscription streaming outlet featuring live mobile rights once controlled by Verizon.
NFL+, as the new service is known, is available in two versions. The basic one costs $5 a month (or $40 a year), while the premium tier is $10 a month, or $80 a year.
The basic tier offers live local and primetime games on mobile devices and tablets as well as live out-of-market preseason games. It also features live game audio (with feeds for both opposing teams’ announcers as well as national ones) and library programming. NFL+ Premium adds ad-free game replays, in both full and condensed form, as well as “coaches film” and the “all-22” look, which shows every player on the field.
Reports of the streaming venture began circulating after league owners met in May. The NFL, like other major sports entities is putting more and more of its live game inventory on streaming services. In September, the league will begin a decade-long exclusive deal for Thursday night games with Amazon’s Prime Video. Its long-term renewals with other longtime partners include significant streaming components.
The setup for NFL+ follows ones in years past with Verizon and Yahoo, which had offered NFL livestreams and other programming to laptops and mobile devices. (Verizon last year re-upped with the league as a partner but shifted from live streams to providing telecom and broadband service in stadiums.) With the new service coming online, NFL Game Pass, which had offered replays (but not livestreams) of full games on a subscription basis, will no longer be available in the U.S.
The limited batch of in-market rights captured by NFL+ are not to be confused with those of NFL Sunday Ticket, the full slate of weekly games offered
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