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NFL Sunday Ticket officially going to YouTube TV in 2023

Vikings fans outside of Minnesota will need to have YouTube TV to catch the team every week

For the better part of the last two decades, DirecTV has been the exclusive provider of NFL Sunday Ticket. Last season, it was announced that they would no longer have the exclusive contract.

After a long negotiation with multiple companies, Google’s YouTube TV will be getting the exclusive contract for NFL Sunday Ticket starting in 2023.

The service will be available to both subscribers of YouTube TV and their subpackage YouTube Primetime Channels.

What is currently unclear is how this service will be made available to those who don’t have access to high-speed internet yet. Will they partner with any cable or satellite providers to cater to those individuals?

Either way, this is a huge step for the digital age and the distribution of the NFL.

NFL and Google partner to bring NFL Sunday Ticket to YouTube

The NFL today announced a multi-year deal with Google granting YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channels the right to exclusively distribute NFL Sunday Ticket starting with the 2023 NFL season.

According to Tom Pelissero YouTube has completed a deal for the NFL Sunday Ticket, the out-of-market package that DirecTV has exclusively broadcast since 1994 when it debuted.

Pro Football Talk is reporting that YouTube will pay $2.5 billion per year for the package.

“We’re excited to bring NFL Sunday Ticket to YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channels and usher in a new era of how fans across the United States watch and follow the NFL,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said. “For a number of years we have been focused on increased digital distribution of our games and this partnership is yet another example of us looking towards the future and building the next generation of NFL fans.”

“YouTube has long been a home for football fans, whether they’re streaming live games, keeping up with their home team, or watching the best plays in highlights,” said Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube. “Through this expanded partnership with the NFL, viewers will now also be able to experience the game they love in compelling and innovative ways through YouTube TV or YouTube Prime.”

Talks with Google (the YouTube parent company) came full circle after Amazon and Apple dropped out.

With consumers cutting the cable cord, the NFL Sunday Ticket package will be available on YouTube TV and YouTube Premium channels.

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YouTube TV dropped ESPN early in college football bowl season, and fans were furious

Don’t ever take away college football fans’ bowl games.

If you use YouTube TV to get your college football fix, we have some bad news for you.

The cable alternative streaming service dropped ESPN (and its subsidiaries), as well as all other Disney properties, from its platform after it failed to reach a deal with The Walt Disney Company to keep the content available. To account for the change, the service will decrease the price by $15 per month, and the timeline for Disney and co.’s return is unclear.

For fans of college football, especially, this presents a major dilemma, as ESPN owns the rights to televise the majority of bowl games, including the College Football Playoff semifinals and national championship, as well as 33 of the other 36 FBS bowl games in this year.

With bowl season getting into full swing on Saturday, the timing of this couldn’t be worse.

Naturally, sports fans were not happy, with many of them threatening to cancel their YouTube TV subscriptions if an agreement can’t be reached to keep ESPN channels on the platform. Twitter was set ablaze on Saturday morning with frustrated college football fans who are rethinking their cord-cutting decisions.

Here were some of the best reactions on Twitter.

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Sinclar, YouTube TV agreement will allow Thunder game streaming to continue

Oklahoma City Thunder Games will continue streaming on YouTube TV with the agreement between Google and Sinclair.

YouTube TV and Sinclair reached an agreement Thursday that will allow 19 of the 21 Sinclair Fox Regional Sports networks to continue airing on YouTube TV, according to Variety.

This means the Oklahoma City Thunder games can remain on YouTube TV. Among the approved networks is Fox Sports Oklahoma, according to the Oklahoman.

“We are pleased that YouTube TV was able to agree to terms on 19 of our RSNs and that they will continue to provide subscribers with access to some of the most in-demand sports networks in the nation,” Sinclair senior VP and general counsel David Gibber said in a statement issued to Variety and the Oklahoman.

The agreement lasts until the end of the 2020 Major League Baseball season, according to Variety.

YouTube TV has dropped regional sports networks Fox Sports Prime Ticket and Fox Sports West, and the YES Network that airs games of New York sports teams including the Yankees and Nets.

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YouTube TV is losing many regional sports channels and fans are furious

If you use YouTube TV to watch your local sports team, you may need to find another option.

YouTube TV announced on Thursday that as of Saturday, February 29th, customers will no longer have access to Fox regional sports networks or the YES Network, both owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group.

YouTube TV was not able to reach a carriage agreement with Sinclair and cited “the rising cost of sports content,” which means that thousands of fans across the country will have to find another way to watch their favorite NBA, MLB or NHL team. YouTube TV noted that other providers have also cut Sinclair-owned channels in the past over similar contract disputes, such as Dish Network and Sling.

 

Fans sounded off on both YouTube TV and Sinclair on social media.

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