On dIRECTV the price has been between four to $500 a year, depending on if you get any additional options like the NFL channels.
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You can also pay like $70 a month.
It's presently not good--the 1st few weeks of the year DirecTV (or the NFL) screwed up a bunch of games (i.e., they didn't show them) and had to refund portions of whatever package you bought.
Apple would have done this so much better than Google, but Google for sure can do it better than DirecTV
You can get a cheaper plan streaming to iPad and iPhone. Of course, they gimped AirPlay on the app.
Nope. It’s available a la carte thru YouTube Primetime. Haven’t heard of that? Understandable. It’s relatively new, and they currently offer you the ability to pay for the garbage channels you can get for free on Pluto.
Do yourself a favor and learn how to stream any game you want online. You're still watching somebody's commercials. Asking some people to pay extra for something other people get for free with commercials is just perverse. And for a blackout zone to go any further than 20 or 30 miles is also just greedy and gross.
They were gonna win. Problem was the NFL wanted them to charge an extra $9 premium for the Sunday Ticket, when Apple just wanted the Sunday Ticket as part of the regular Apple TV sub. This is all because Fox and CBS complained that they were gonna lose business to Apple so NFL wanted the premium so they could still pay Fox and CBS.
tl;dr NFL being greedy and dinosaur media being boomers is why you ain't getting NFL games on Apple TV now.
But that’s the whole reason the deal fell through my dude. They wanted to offer it as a perk included with Apple TV+ to try to get as many subs as possible. NFL said no
I wish all companies would tell these sports league to shove it and not pay those insane fees.
I wish they would ignore NFL which is primarily in the US, and go for global sports.
NFL has plenty of coverage in the US, but has very little interest outside the US.
They should focus on F1 (which has a 300% higher TV viewership than NFL), or major league football (aka soccer in the US).
They would get a ton more subscribers if they were able to stream those services. Not that I have any interest in football, I would love to see better streaming support for motorsports.
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Meta's been looking into getting F1 access for virtual reality through their Xtadium app. They already got NASCAR races and lemme tell you watching car races in VR is absolutely incredible. Being able to move to different parts of the track on the fly or having a directorial view of the entire race is the best way to watch races.
Meh. Honestly the NFL has become a sh*t show in recent years. Not sure Apple wants to associate itself with the nonsense.
And for the NFL, this wasn't about platforms, per se. It was all about money as their ticket sales and viewership have steadily declined and Goodell's nonsense has increased.
I'm really not sure Apple lost or Google gained anything long-term. NFL is still big business, but I question for how long if things remain on the same trajectory.
ESPN+ did it with the NHL. Its part of the incentive to sign up now. Had Apple won out on the contract initially it likely would have been an included perk. The Streaming market is tough business right now.
I have been a subscriber for the last 27 years. I have never been offered a price anywhere near this amount. If you follow the DTV Internet forums you will see that a large number of subscribers would call even year and complain about the price. DTV gave them a discount of a couple hundred dollars a year for a few years. Then they got smart ( they were paying 1.5 billion dollars a year for the service) and started telling them no. Pay the full price for the service or we will discontinue you. The only people who I saw got a low price like you said was college students. They could subscribe for $99 a year. And all of those discounted prices required you to prove that you could not subscribe to the satellite service. If you could get satellite, you pay the full price. What I paid was the 70 dollars for adding the iPhone and iPad service to my existing satellite service. That’s where the 500 dollars a year number comes from.
Others articles I have read stated it will be offered as a stand alone add on. I think Macrumors got that part incorrect.
"Now, it will be available either as an add-on for YouTube TV subscribers or à la carte via YouTube Primetime Channels, which launched last month"
I am not into the NFL but I can sympathise with any sports fans who are subject to the whims of those making deals for huge amounts of money that shift and change and often consider the fans last of all.
With it being YouTube, I do however have an amusing mental image of towering NFL players stopping mid-game to encourage viewers to like and subscribe and pause for a moment to thank this game’s sponsors… and the fact that I only think this probably won’t really ever happen is kind of sad too…
With it being YouTube, I do however have an amusing mental image of towering NFL players stopping mid-game to encourage viewers to like and subscribe and pause for a moment to thank this game’s sponsors… and the fact that I only think this probably won’t really ever happen is kind of sad too…
That’s it then. All NFL will be available on streamers. YT for ALL games Sunday. EPSN+ for Monday, and Amazon for Thursday. This makes me happy. I only paid for YTTV during NFL season as is. Despite still being subject to blackouts. This is great news!
There’s also a small chance YT could give us NFL at 4K HDR. (it’s as big a leap for the field as HD was for those that have seen it)
There’s also a small chance YT could give us NFL at 4K HDR. (it’s as big a leap for the field as HD was for those that have seen it)
Sports inflate Live TV pricing so badly. I used to love the PSVue but that left. YTTV was the other one we loved until the pricing went insane
They need the money for all the sexual harassment, rape and murder lawyers.
Yessir, but even if you aren't a T-Mobile customer, it's still like $79 for the season or something ridiculously low for what you're getting. MLB has 162 games in a season!
Apple didn't lose out, they dropped out because the NFL wouldn't give them what they wanted.
Good riddance. Glad apple didn’t get a profit sucking product subject to blackouts That renders it basically Useless.
If you're into out of market games and really invested in the sport $300 for a full season isn't so bad, it's cheaper than going to even one game at this point.
I find it amusing that the NFL Sunday Ticket logo incorporates what appears to be a CRT TV from like 30 years ago.