National Football League (NFL)
Cosm deals with NFL for ‘shared reality’ game rights
Cosm, the immersive technology and entertainment company, has reached an enhanced agreement with the National Football League to show live matches for the rest of the 2024 season.
ITV’s NFL highlights show discontinued
ITV will no longer show its weekly National Football League highlights programme in the UK this season
Goodell: Private equity NFL ownership limited to 10 per cent
The National Football League is set to allow each of its 32 franchises to sell to private equity investors, albeit up to a limit of 10 per cent only, commissioner Roger Goodell has declared
IOC steps up Netflix content strategy
News of the production of three Olympic focused documentaries on Netflix is further evidence of the IOC's attempts to better engage an audience in between Games.
NFL continues streaming push with two more exclusive games
The National Football League has announced two games in the 2024 season, including the league's debut game in Brazil in September, will be shown exclusively on streaming services, with Peacock and Amazon…
Peacock retains 71 per cent of sign-ups from NFL playoff
NBCUniversal's streaming service Peacock has retained 71 per cent of the sign-ups it generated when it streamed the National Football League's AFC Wild Card Game
Super Bowl domestic audience exceeds 123m to net all-time record
Domestic Super Bowl coverage drew the most-watched broadcast in NFL history with an average audience of 123.4 million viewers across all platforms
NFL playoff ratings soar in divisional round
The National Football League has set records during its live postseason coverage across the main US networks
NFL ‘in advanced talks’ to take ESPN stake
Disney and the National Football League have held "advanced talks" over the latter taking an equity stake in ESPN, it has been claimed
Prime Video’s TNF coverage posts 24-per-cent season increase
Amazon Prime Video's second season as the exclusive Thursday Night Football broadcaster returned a 24-per-cent increase in total viewership in the United States compared to its inaugural season
Prime Video’s bumper NFL audience bodes well for future rights talks
Amazon Prime Video's Thursday Night Football (TNF) broadcast of the Seattle Seahawks-Dallas Cowboys NFL game on November 30 drew its best-ever audience with an average of 15.26 million viewers
NFL Sunday Ticket suffers first issues of YouTube era
Technical difficulties plagued YouTube's coverage of NFL Sunday Ticket, the National Football League's out-of-market streaming service, just two months into its multi-billion dollar, long-term deal
NFL expands data deal with Genius Sports for streaming service
Genius Sports has expanded its deal with the National Football League to supply NFL+, the league's video streaming subscription service, with data-driven on-screen graphic overlays during game broadcasts
NFL posts highest opening ratings since 2016
The National Football League's viewership in the United States continues to have a strong start to the new season, recording its highest ratings across the first two weeks since 2016 with an average of…
NFL opening weekend, college football score major US viewership
The return of the National Football League, combined with a strong slate of college games, drew major audiences across US television, including a record for Monday Night Football on ESPN
NFL sorts Sunday Ticket spat in US territories, wagering set to soar in new season
Pay-television operator DirecTV is to continue offering the out-of-market streaming service NFL Sunday Ticket in the United States territories of Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands, despite having lost…
NFL Network, RedZone go D2C on NFL+
The National Football League is making its two cable channels, NFL Network and NFL RedZone, available in a direct-to-consumer offering on NFL+
CBS, Nickelodeon extend kid-friendly NFL broadcasts to Super Bowl
Paramount-owned CBS Sports and Nickelodeon have announced that they will broadcast a children-centric, family-friendly simulcast of next year's Super Bowl, marking the first time an alternative telecast…