Netflix has signed a cope with the NFL to broadcast two video games on streaming this coming Christmas Day.
This 12 months’s video games on Netflix would be the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs on the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens on the Houston Texans. The video games will air reside on Netflix on December 25. (Followers of these groups will nonetheless have the ability to watch the video games broadcast on tv of their native markets and on the NFL+ app.)
Netflix may even air Christmas video games in every of the following two years. The NFL didn’t say what Netflix had paid for the rights to the video games. The streaming large has mentioned they may have their very own announcers name the video games.
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In current months, Netflix has been steadily dipping its toes into an increasing number of reside programming, a lot of it involving reside sports activities. After exhibition golf and tennis tournaments, Netflix introduced their broadcast of an upcoming boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul; that bout is scheduled to air on the streaming service on Saturday, July 20.
Netflix has additionally had current success with actuality exhibits about Method One and different sports activities. The corporate not too long ago made a deal to air WWE’s Monday Night time Uncooked reside all around the globe; that deal begins in early 2025. Uncooked had beforehand been a staple of cable tv programming for greater than 30 years.
Netflix has additionally broadcast reside occasions like a Chris Rock standup particular and the reunion particular for its 2023 season of Love Is Blind.
It’s attention-grabbing to watch that an organization that has constructed a lot of its buyer base on giving its customers the flexibility to look at no matter they need every time they need it —pausing, rewinding, fast-forwarding, replaying issues at will, even altering the velocity at which the content material is screened — is now moving into reside tv which is, by its very nature, the precise reverse of on-demand streaming.
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