Wednesday, December 25, 2024

NFL -- Television -- Thinking Out Loud -- December 25, 2024

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Updates

December 26, 2024: screenshot from CNBC this date -- 

Original Post

32 teams; 16 games. Bye weeks not included. Holiday games / weeks not inluded.

  • TNF: two games, four teams (legacy network, Amazon)
  • MNF: two games, four teams (legacy network, ESPN) -- double-headers, occasionally
  • SNF: one game, two teams (legacy network --> Peacock -- 2025-206)
  • that leaves 11 games, 22 teams for the NFL to slice and dice.

Netflix acquired rights to two games on Christmas Day this year.

Could easily go to a double-header Sunday nights (legacy, Apple, for example)

Could easily go to a regular double-header MNF (legacy, ESPN+).

ABC / ESPN / ESPN+ / Disney: Hulu?

Those over-the-air televised games are sold by the NFL on a case-by-case basis:

Long term:

  • could the NFL sell "whole team packages" to a single streaming network?
  • for example:
    • Amazon gets the Texas market
    • Netflix gets the NY market
    • Hulu: gets the Pennsylvania / DC market
    • Apple gets the West Coast games 
  • the deals would not include holiday weeks or playoffs or Super Bowl

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