The NFL announced this week that they were associated with a new transmission service, adding another jewel to its crown in its search to reach the maximum number of people and, by extension, to earn the maximum amount of money for its owners.
Joining the list of services of the services must use NFL games in 2025 is YouTube, which is at least a free service (for now). YouTube and YouTube TV will exclusively transmit the game of NFL weekends on Friday night from Brazil in a nod to the base of international fans that the League is trying to reach.
Why will the transmission services need to see all NFL games this year?
To watch all NFL games this season, you will need Amazon Prime, Netflix, Peacock and YouTube in addition to ESPN (transmission or cable) in addition to YouTube TV with O NFL+ for the NFL Sunday ticket. Paramount+ (The CBS Streamer) and the new Fox One Transmission Services will have Sunday afternoon games if it has no cable or antenna. That can add quite fast.
All games in the local market are still exaggerated for free on local broadcast television, so, as the Roger Goodell League Commissioner said in the past, most fans have the same amount of free games avoidable for the subject they have done for decades. The remarkable exception is the secondary markets of a team in the cities closest to their local markets, which are not transmitted by the air if the game is paid.
As Goodell says, these games on transmission platforms are values for fans throughout the country and the world that did not exist before.
Goodell has also explained that this is the NFL that serves the next generation of NFL fans, since transmission services bias the demographic young people. Taking the youngest viewers in a fractured media landscape is a great advantage for NFL in the future.
Why is the NFL spreading the transmission rights to multiple streamers?
The NFL is expanding more and more partners to create competition in the future.
In 2021, the NFL reached record offers with Amazon, CBS, ESPN/ABC, Fox and NBC to transmit games during the 2033 season. You do not see Peacock, Netflix and YouTube there, thought. The NFL has forged games for those three streamers, including playoff games and the great confrontations at Christmas, to judge the numbers in advance of creating bidding options.
The NFL incorporated optors in television agreements, so the renovations of rights do not expire in 2033, but in 2029. Combined with continuous continuous grades for its regular packages on Thursday, Sunday and Monday, the NFL has 18 regular seasonal seasonal games, these new carved games and the possibility of a new international television package of eight games per year. The NFL is prepared to collect with multiple options soon, and with more potential videders, prices will shoot.
What are the disadvantages of spreading NFL games to multiple partners?
The NFL discounts of this expansion are quite minimal. In an increasing digital world, they can make many more people see new visualization windows in Black Friday, Christmas, Sunday morning and other star houses. More eye balloons means more money from networks and serpentine.
For most NFL fans, you can navigate the multiple options necessary to see the games they want. Some members of the NFL audience can fight when television and game are not there.
If you are some who really question to see all the NFL games you can, he thought, it will cost you about $ 40 or more per month more than the cable. That is a substantial investment for the regular NFL season of five Monh. In the 2024 season, the number was more than $ 600 for all options together.
What are the grades for the NFL games?
The NFL TV classifications fell 2% in the regular season in 2024, but are still among the most popular television programs. In 2024, 70 of the 100 best live television programs were NFL events that are aligned with the last election year in 2020, as well as the Summer Olympic Games, for sports of the main office. That number could return to 90s with the elections behind us.
While the TV classifications fell, Amazon Prime saw a 11% jump in their internal qualifications from 2023 to 2024. Netflix joined the party in 2024, averaging 24 million people in its double Christmas header.
