“Every live game. Every Sunday afternoon.” That is the promise of NFL Sunday Ticket. The cost is $293.94 per season, which many NFL fans are willing to pay. However, unless you are a college student or live in a building
that doesn’t allow satellite dishes, the cost fans are often unwilling to pay is having the DirecTV hardware bolted to your home. According to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, though, that’s about to change.
The NFL will end our long national nightmare and choose a new Sunday Ticket provider by the fall, Commissioner Roger Goodell says in an exclusive CNBC interview with my colleague @JBoorstin from Sun Valley:https://t.co/b0ikvlAIzE NFL Sunday Ticket brings NFL fans every out-of-market game during the 1:00 pm EST and 4:00 pm EST windows on football Sundays. Starting in the mid-1990s, the NFL partnered with DirecTV to offer this service to fans. Subscribers get every game on Sunday afternoons that is not on their local CBS or FOX affiliate. Also, the package has its own RedZone channel hosted by Andrew Siciliano as opposed to Scott Hanson. As live streaming became more popular, DirecTV began to offer that option as part of the package. However, streaming is not currently a standalone option unless you live in a place where satellites aren’t allowed or are actively enrolled as a full-time college student. These restrictions limit the reach of the package, and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell plans to do something about it when the exclusive partnership with DirecTV expires at the end of the 2022 NFL season. “I clearly believe we’ll be moving to a streaming service,” Goodell told reporter Julia Boorstin in an interview with CNBC. “I think that’s best for consumers at this stage.” That begs the question, which streaming service will get NFL Sunday Ticket in 2023? Which streaming service will have NFL Sunday Ticket? DirecTV currently pays $1.5 billion annually for the exclusive rights to NFL Sunday Ticket. With the proliferation of streaming services in the last few years, that price has increased significantly. Roger Goodell and the NFL believe that whichever streamer gets the package will pay north of $2 billion per season, and if a bidding war breaks out, the figure could double from the last deal and get to around $3 billion. As for which streaming platform will get the NFL Sunday Ticket for its next iteration, CNBC reports that Apple, Amazon, and Disney (the parent company of ESPN) “have all submitted bids to be the league’s exclusive Sunday Ticket distributor.” These companies have all already ponied up big bucks for live sporting rights. Amazon is already paying the NFL $1 billion per year to stream Thursday Night Football starting this season, and Disney/ESPN are in for around $2.7 billion for Monday Night Football. Apple hasn’t landed any NFL rights yet, but the company did just shell out $2.5 billion for the exclusive rights to MLS for the next decade. It’s too early to tell which streamer will win the rights, but NFL fans will certainly have a much easier time getting the Sunday Ticket package starting in 2023. Like Sportscasting on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter @sportscasting19 and subscribe to our YouTube channel. RELATED: Ryan Fitzpatrick in Talks With Amazon After Calling Time on Improbable Career Following the completion of AT&T’s spinning off of DirecTV to a new company, there’s been a great deal of speculation about the future of Sunday Ticket, DirecTV’s out-of-market package for NFL games. DirecTV has had the exclusive rights to Sunday Ticket ever since the package first became available in 1994. However, that agreement is expected to run out after the 2022 season, and the NFL is expected to open up the bidding to other companies. The interested bidders, according to various reports, are expected to be everyone from big tech companies like Amazon and Apple to established media companies like Disney and Comcast, who have been broadcast partners of the NFL for many years. It’s also possible that the league could go with more than one partner and split the package non-exclusively. In the meantime, the newly independent DirecTV is making a surprising offer to some of its customers. As reported by The Streamable, “select DirecTV subscribers” have been informed that they will receive the Sunday Ticket Max package for free for the 2021 NFL season, a package that typically costs nearly $400. The offer is directed towards what DirecTV calls “our OG Fans.” DirecTV confirmed that the offer was legitimate. The satellite broadcaster often offers a free year of Sunday Ticket to new subscribers to the service, although the free offer this year is for existing customers. It would appear to be an effort to either shore up DirecTV’s subscriber numbers or to keep customers on board with DirecTV, at a time when the satellite company has been bleeding subscribers significantly. “Grab your face paint. The 2021 season of NFL SUNDAY TICKET MAX is Yours,” the email to subscribers says. “We know you love football, and to us—football is life. That’s why DIRECTV will celebrate this season of NFL SUNDAY TICKET MAX by giving it to you, our loyal fans—at no cost. No catch. No fine print. Zilch. Nada.” The offer also includes the Red Zone channel, DirecTV Fantasy Zone and access to the Sunday Ticket app, which are included in the Sunday Ticket Max package. This year, the standard Sunday Ticket package costs $293.94, while the Max package, with those add-ons, is $395.94. It’s not clear when the NFL’s bidding process might begin on the Sunday Ticket package. The NFL earlier this year extended its lucrative standard TV deals, with Amazon set to take over the Thursday Night Football package. NBC, CBS, ESPN and Fox remain the league’s main partners, although the package will include more games on those networks’ streaming channels than was previously the case. Stephen Silver, a technology writer for The National Interest, is a journalist, essayist and film critic, who is also a contributor to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philly Voice, Philadelphia Weekly, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Living Life Fearless, Backstage magazine, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Follow him on Twitter at @StephenSilver. Image: Reuters How much is NFL Sunday Ticket for existing customers?Blackout restrictions and other conditions apply. 2022 NFL SUNDAY TICKET MAX regular full-season retail price is $395.94. All offers, programming, promotions, pricing, terms, restrictions & conditions subject to change & may be modified, discontinued, or terminated at any time without notice.
Is DirecTV giving free Sunday Ticket to existing customers?If you're an existing DIRECTV subscriber, and you haven't received the e-mail by now, you might not. But here's what you can do to get the NFL Sunday Ticket for free: Call them. Or send an e-mail to customer service. Tell them that you are a loyal customer, and you want to get the Sunday Ticket for free as others have.
How much does DirecTV charge for NFL Sunday Ticket?NFL SUNDAY TICKET costs $293.94 a season by itself. There is also a premium option called NFL SUNDAY TICKET MAX that costs $395.94 a season and comes with RED ZONE CHANNEL and the DIRECTV FANTASY ZONE channel.
Can you buy NFL Sunday Ticket by itself?Yes, you can get the streaming version of NFL SUNDAY TICKET if DIRECTV's satellite service is unavailable for your home. You'll have to meet the strict eligibility requirements, but college students can also get a similar package at a discounted price.
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