The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football association based in New York City. The NFL comprises 32 clubs divided among two conferences, which itself is split among eight divisions.
Telecast rights to NFL games are held by the Walt Disney Company (ESPN, ABC), Comcast Corporation (NBC), Paramount Global (CBS), Fox Corporation and Amazon’s Prime Video. National radio broadcasts are offered by Cumulus Radio’s Westwood One.
The NFL also distributes games through its own standalone streaming app called NFL Plus, with out-of-market games aired on CBS and Fox affiliates available through YouTube’s NFL Sunday Ticket package.
Football fans are doing more than watching live games on television — they are interacting at an increasing rate across different platforms that reshape the traditional sports viewing experience.
Anyone who has worked in television for more than a minute or so learns that there are three sets of numbers that you have to care about: Your paycheck, corporate earnings and ratings.
The Google-owned streaming service said it under-counted the viewership of its NFL game in Brazil.
CBS was the clear winner of the week, though Fox pulled in a strong TV audience of its own with a single game on its broadcast network.
DAZN has renewed its multi-year partnership with the National Football League to remain the exclusive digital home of every NFL game in Canada.
A weather delay prevented NBC Sports from attracting the largest audience for an NFL Kickoff event in domestic TV history.
Before the game was played, questions were raised about how Nielsen and YouTube would collect and report viewership figures.
The 2025 season will be the first in years to feature absolutely no commercial-free football.
The ManningCast will surpass 50 total episodes this year and has averaged 1.3 million viewers per telecast since its 2021 debut.
The NFL has experimented with alternative measurement solutions that compete with Nielsen.
Sky Group has struck a new three-year deal with the National Football League (NFL) that expands the number of live American football games available on its pay TV platform.
Spending on U.S. sports rights has soared 122 percent over the past decade, fueled by blockbuster rights deals with the NFL and NBA, according to Ampere Analysis.
The amount is more than double what broadcasters and streaming platforms paid under the prior TV rights agreement.
The NFL continues to deliver unrivaled value for advertisers, according to the latest installment of EDO’s NFL TV Outcomes Report released this week.
Gray Media will deliver the first over-the-air television broadcast produced entirely in native High Dynamic Range (HDR) on Friday when it airs a pre-season football game involving the New York Saints.
The bundle will be offered to football fans on September 3 at a price of $40 per month.
A gunman who fatally shot four people at a New York City skyscraper on Monday was targeting the administrative offices of the NFL.
ESPN is nearing a deal to acquire NFL Media, including NFL Network and Red Zone, according to a report.
The study released this week contradicts first- and third-party data from Nielsen and other measurement sources.
Gray Media and the NFL’s Carolina Panthers have announced a first-of-its-kind partnership that will bring all three of the team’s 2025 preseason games live in Spanish to Telemundo audiences throughout the Carolinas.
The Google-backed streaming video platform is favored to distribute a rare Friday NFL game during the league’s opening weekend.
Sports fans like data and AI capabilities during live games, but only if it comes across as a genuine way to supplement the viewing experience, according to a new Hub Entertainment Research study.
Netflix and Amazon’s Prime Video will share distribution rights to three National Football League (NFL) games played on Christmas Day, the league confirmed on Tuesday.
Streamers are near-evenly divided over wither Netflix’s distribution of NFL games on Christmas made them more or less likely to subscribe or keep their memberships active.
As more sports moves to streaming, fans are growing comfortable — and satisfied — with the available options to watch their favorite teams.
Executives at Fubo warned the company is likely to lose subscribers during Q1, a red flag that sent its stock price down 20 percent on Friday.
A Netflix executive is hoping the company gets Sunday afternoon games from the NFL, but one of the company’s co-CEOs says full season rights could be a complicated endeavor.
NFL and college football programming, plus other live events, helped lift traditional TV’s share of viewership over streaming’s lead in January.
The company’s decision to distribute a free feed of the NFL championship game on Tubi helped.
NFL games on Prime Video grow viewership, but still lag behind peer broadcast networks.
Linear TV captured more than 46 percent of total TV time in December, compared with streaming’s 43 percent.
Netflix saw its global customer base increase to 300 million paid accounts by the end of 2024.
Two NFL games streamed live on Netflix during the Christmas Day holiday drew 30 million viewers each, according to new data from the league.
The Baltimore Ravens-Houston Texans game was the more-popular of the two Christmas Day NFL matches, per Nielsen ratings.
The Beyoncé halftime performance during the second of two Christmas Day NFL games on Netflix will be available to stream as a separate special later this week.
The NFL’s early partnership with Netflix appears to have gone off without a hitch on Christmas Day.
Two NFL games will be available to stream on-demand through Netflix for just a few hours after the live broadcasts conclude.
More than 13 million people watched some or all of Amazon’s football game between the Raiders and the Chiefs last Friday.
Fox sports won the day, while CBS came in second, according to Nielsen data released by the league.
The Fox match-up between the Cowboys and the Giants averaged 38.5 million viewers on broadcast, cable and streaming, the network said.