NFL will make all games available on stream in 2025.

[Ed_Formerly_of_Roch]

I wonder how good the NFL's technology will be a stopping IP spoofing??  Hmmmmm.......

[The Firebaugh Kid]

Iptv

Iykyk

[Gregg]

I didn't like it when the NFL started showing one playoff game on Prime. Had to go to the bar to watch it. It's the way the world is trending so why bother complaining about something we have no control over.

[Lagoon Blues]

6 minutes ago, The Firebaugh Kid said:

Iptv

Iykyk

I swear all over 55 community homeowners here in Florida all have a superbox.  It's hilarious...spectrum is freaking out about all the cable drops and offering an alternative box of their own.

[LABILLBACKER]

3 hours ago, ddaryl said:

 

The only issue is only sunday afternoon games are available on the sunday ticket. So you are still out Monday Thursday and Sunday night.

And NFL Sunday ticket isn't cheap for a guy like me who only wants to watch Bills games. If you want to watch lots of games all day long then the price is more than fair

You're right, it's more expensive than when DTV offered discounts.  All you can do now is sign up for YTTV in September and drop it Jan 1st. Pay monthly around $83/ month which comes out to $332. The playoff games in January are all on national networks.  Don't pay for the whole year.

[LabattBlue]

4 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:

They are just getting us used to watching games on stream. Eventually free over-the-air TV games will go away and we'll be paying to watch all games. 

 

Define “eventually”?

[Goin Breakdown]

5 hours ago, BillsFanMike said:

Last year was already too much to watch games on 4 different streaming services. They need to have one website where you can pay to stream these games.

 

Isn't this called the Sunday ticket and costs like 400 bucks. Screw that. Greedy ass league.  Ant even afford eggs and they want to soak us for watching games. NFL used to be a break from all the BS in life. Seems like they just want to be a part of the BS

[Jrb1979]

This is just the beginning. In a few years the over the air package will be done. As much as it sucks, the consumer had a part in this change to streaming. 

 

It goes back to people cutting out cable. This these companies way of getting back that money. 

[Goin Breakdown]

3 hours ago, TheFunPolice said:

Some day there's going to be this service... where you pay a fee (probably a somewhat hefty one) and in return you get all the streaming services and their channels in one place. 

 

And we will have come full circle. Except it will be more expensive. 

Doesn't Amazon kind of do this?

[PromoTheRobot]

4 hours ago, LabattBlue said:

Define “eventually”?

 

Three to five years? 

[Matt_In_NH]

13 hours ago, ddaryl said:

And NFL Sunday ticket isn't cheap for a guy like me who only wants to watch Bills games. If you want to watch lots of games all day long then the price is more than fair

Nfl Sunday ticket has two windows 1 pm and 4 pm games. That is it.  You cannot watch 10 games at the same time.  They give them all to you a dyou get to pick. The product is purchased by people like you and me nearly exclusively….out of market fans.  A large percentage of people just want to watch their team.  How many people really have 6 tvs set up in their living room?

Edited yesterday at 09:58 AM by Matt_In_NH

[SoTier]

15 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:

They are just getting us used to watching games on stream. Eventually free over-the-air TV games will go away and we'll be paying to watch all games. 

 

 

It's highly unlikely that games on OTA TV are going to go away any time soon -- not until OTA broadcasting ends which is also unlikely to happen in the foreseeable future.  The NFL is not moving games to streaming services to increase viewership.  Streaming services are buying the rights to some games in order to increase their viewership.  If the services don't get a permanent bump in their customers from the games, they won't buy more exclusive rights.

 

Making all NFL games available for streaming is simply the NFL avoiding any issues with anti-trust laws.  The networks are going to continue to broadcast teams' games to OTA stations.   Even when local team games are "stream only on XYZ  service", they are available to local OTA stations.

 

Out of market fans are the ones who are impacted most by streaming services' exclusive rights to individual games.

 

 

 

[Matt_In_NH]

7 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:

 

Three to five years? 

The current TV contracts go out to 2033....while I agree they will try to drive more streaming revenue, the "free" broadcasts are critical to get new and keep existing fans.  And in reality it is not free, the networks dont pay that money to give it for free.  They pay it to get eyeballs on the screen for there advertisers which influence you.

[PromoTheRobot]

1 hour ago, Matt_In_NH said:

The current TV contracts go out to 2033....while I agree they will try to drive more streaming revenue, the "free" broadcasts are critical to get new and keep existing fans.  And in reality it is not free, the networks dont pay that money to give it for free.  They pay it to get eyeballs on the screen for there advertisers which influence you.

 

Really no one knows what the future is going to be. So much uncertainty right now. I wonder if the NFL is convinced they are unbreakable?

[Mr. WEO]

not many people would prefer to watch on their phone when they could watch on their giant TV.  Most games you could already stream  with the networks own apps. Still "free".

[machine gun kelly]

The networks will never give up their strangle hold on the NFL.  The NFL will never lose the network $, as no amt of streaming services revenue can overtake fox, cbs, nbc, and abc.  
 

The best they can do is be competition to the networks.  As long as YouTube has the ticket, and I can use one of my childrens or step childrens student status, I’m happy.

[Jrb1979]

1 hour ago, Matt_In_NH said:

The current TV contracts go out to 2033....while I agree they will try to drive more streaming revenue, the "free" broadcasts are critical to get new and keep existing fans.  And in reality it is not free, the networks dont pay that money to give it for free.  They pay it to get eyeballs on the screen for there advertisers which influence you.

The other thing is live sports is what drives streaming numbers, especially the ad tiers. I can see towards the end of the contract they move it to streaming only. IMO this is the last contract for the big networks. Going forward I see all games on Prime, Netflix and ESPN+

[extrahammer]

I really hoped with the move of Sunday Ticket to YouTubeTV we'd get a team-specific ST option but we haven't seen it yet. I'd like to pay something like $100 for all Bills games on the season. 

[Gregg]

4 minutes ago, machine gun kelly said:

The networks will never give up their strangle hold on the NFL.  The NFL will never lose the network $, as no amt of streaming services revenue can overtake fox, cbs, nbc, and abc.  
 

The best they can do is be competition to the networks.  As long as YouTube has the ticket, and I can use one of my childrens or step childrens student status, I’m happy.

 

Exactly. CBS, FOX, NBC, ESPN pay billions to have the rights to show these games. The NFL/networks aren't walking away from that $$$$ as it is extremely profitable for both sides.

[ddaryl]

13 hours ago, LABILLBACKER said:

You're right, it's more expensive than when DTV offered discounts.  All you can do now is sign up for YTTV in September and drop it Jan 1st. Pay monthly around $83/ month which comes out to $332. The playoff games in January are all on national networks.  Don't pay for the whole year.

Last  year we had so many prime time games in the early season I did't buy the youtube sunday tocket till the halway mark @ 50% off, worked well  for me