After dipping his toes into live sports for years and tennis exhibitions, takes great steps in this direction. There is a company with Airing a Christmas Day doubleheader, marking the first time the league will broadcast a game. Netflix will also stream at least one holiday game in 2025 and 2026. These games will not be blacked out in the domestic markets of competitive teams.
It suggested that Netflix was playing for Christmas Day NFL games, which is apparently why the league delayed releasing the 2024 schedule until today (when Netflix tried to win over advertisers in its first launch). To that end, it’s still unclear which NFL teams will be the first to take the field live on Netflix from around the world, though we’ll find out when the league releases its schedule at 8 p.m. ET.
Of course, Netflix isn’t the first streaming service to stream NFL games. Prime Video shows them And YouTube
This isn’t Netflix’s first foray into the NFL as a whole. It debuted last year Quarterback, a no-hit streak that follows Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins and Marcus Mariota through the 2022 season. self-explanatory watch show called Receiver coming this summer.
Before Christmas and Netflix’s first NFL games, the company will release a boxing card some time now official professional fight. The holiday NFL games will serve as a warm-up for Netflix, as the company does every week in January.
