The HD games were formerly part of the Superfan package. įrom 2009 to 2019, all games were in high definition. As of 2012, some of them are part of the NFL Sunday Ticket Max package which costs an extra $100. From 2005–09 these features were part of an add-on package called Superfan and cost $100 extra. Extra features ĭirecTV offers the following extra features. The NFL suspended the local blackout policy for the 2015 NFL regular season, and has since done so indefinitely.
Games joined or switched away from in progress usually had their blackout status altered immediately. Until the end of the 2014 season, if a game the viewer wished to watch was blacked out in their home market because it was not sold out, the game remained blacked out on NFL Sunday Ticket. (This applies to live streaming of said games as well.) Viewers must watch these games on their local broadcast stations instead.
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Games scheduled to air on the local Fox and CBS affiliates within a viewer's designated media market (determined by the ZIP Code of the viewer's address) are blacked out on the NFL Sunday Ticket feed sent to their receiver. See also: NFL local television blackout policies DirecTV offers a free preview of NFL Sunday Ticket for the first week of the season. In turn, affiliates help subsidize the networks' programming costs. NFL Sunday Ticket viewers do not count towards local Nielsen ratings thus offering NFL Sunday Ticket on cable cost CBS and Fox affiliates millions of dollars in lost revenue from local commercial breaks (as opposed to national ads sold by the networks). As of the 2015 season, the service is now available through an online-only subscription exclusively for those who are unable to use DirecTV services.
Reaching the deal was also a condition of AT&T's 2015 acquisition of DirecTV. Although other satellite and cable providers supposedly are allowed to bid on the rights to carry NFL Sunday Ticket if they agree to carry the NFL Network, DirecTV decided to extend their current contract beyond 2014 by paying the NFL $1.5 billion per year for the next eight years.
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Satellite TV provider DirecTV has exclusive rights to the NFL Sunday Ticket package in the United States until it expires at the end of the 2022 NFL season.