YouTube Gets Rights for the NFL Streaming Deal
YouTube Was Willing To Pay 2.5 Billion. Which Was 1 Billion More Than What Former DirecTV paid!
YouTube TV (which cost 64.99 dollars a month) has more than five million people subscribed to their service. While DirecTV (former NFL streaming site) users were paying around 80 dollars per month as the base package. However, there is 150 dollars per month for extra features.
From Yahoo Finance:
Sunday Ticket, which makes out-of-market games available to fans nationwide, will be available as an add-on package on YouTube TV and standalone a-la-carte on YouTube Primetime Channels starting with the 2023 NFL season. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
This is a major move for fans of the NFL. Since 1994 you could watch the Sunday Ticket in the U.S. exclusively through DirecTV.
WSJ (Wall Street Journal) reports:
YouTube is paying $2 billion per season in a multiyear agreement, according to people familiar with the matter.
Good news for NFL fans: The NFL Sunday can still be watched on platforms such as ESPN or Prime Video. (Not sure if this is correct)
Apple, Amazon, Disney/ESPN were contenders for the Sunday ticket owner.
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