National Football League (NFL)

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The National Football League has finalized the schedule for its first-ever “Super Wild Card Weekend,” the opening component of its expanded 14-team playoffs.
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The National Football League is poised to generate more than $100bn (€82bn) in a series of new long-term domestic television rights deals, further highlighting just how powerful the sports property is t…
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Fox Corp. could elect to drop its Thursday night rights package with the National Football League if bidding becomes too high, the company’s chief financial officer said.
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The United States Supreme Court has announced it won’t hear an appeal by the National Football League and satellite-television provider DirecTV to avoid a proposed class-action antitrust lawsuit accusing t…
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Online retail and streaming giant Amazon is continuing to expand its presence within the National Football League, securing rights to stream one of the league's two newly formed Wild Card playoff games,…

The National Football League has seen a fall in its media-rights income from France in the 2020-23 cycle driven by a decline in the value of its deal with pay-television broadcaster beIN, SportBusiness Media understands.
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Online retail and video streaming giant Amazon is rolling out a series of new features and original programming for the October 8 start of its Thursday Night Football streaming for the National Football…
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The National Football League and Google-owned streaming service YouTube have announced a partnership renewal that will bring more league content to the NFL's official YouTube channel
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The opening weekend of the 2020 National Football League provided a decidedly mixed bag on United States television ratings, leaving any conclusions about the full state of the league’s viewership amid t…

American football's NFL has renewed its digital media rights deal with Chinese internet giant Tencent for the 2020 season, and the two parties have launched a new subscription service around the content
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Facing unprecedented sports competition with the industry’s readjusted game schedules due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the opening game of the National Football League’s 2020 season saw a double-digit per…
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NFL Network and NFL RedZone have been restored to US satellite television service Dish Network and its over-the-top offering Sling TV after NFL Media and Dish Network reached a new carriage agreement.
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NBCUniversal is planning a company-wide media and marketing blitz on September 10 to support to the start of the 2020 National Football League season, happening that night on NBC Sports with the network’s c…
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Verizon Media, along with subsidiary media entity Yahoo Sports, is debuting for the upcoming National Football League season a new co-watching experience designed to aid communal viewing of games during…
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Sean McManus, CBS Sports chairman, said the network’s advertising sales for the upcoming National Football League season are on pace with last year, despite the global economic hit from the Covid-19 p…

UK commercial broadcaster Channel 5 has agreed a three-year deal for rights to the NFL’s Monday Night Football, SportBusiness understands. The deal is non-exclusive and runs from 2020 to 2022.
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The National Football League has struck a new carriage agreement with the Google-owned YouTube that will see the NFL Network and NFL RedZone distributed on the YouTube TV over-the-top streaming service
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NBC Sports it will deploy a new and immersive overhead camera angle for its production of Sunday Night Football during the 2020 National Football League season