Starting in 2025, no NFL games will be exclusively broadcast on traditional TV

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The pivot to the streaming of NFL games includes ensuring that all NFL games will stream.

As explained by Tyler Aquilina of Variety.com, via Sports Business Daily, no NFL game will be exclusively available on streaming in 2025. Which means all games will be available through streaming.

And it means, per the report, that viewers within a given locale who are able to watch games that are otherwise available on “free TV” will be able to stream games without paying for a streaming service.

Thanks to geolocation technology, it’s easy to allow people in a certain area to have free access to the games, through their phones or smart TVs.

And while on one hand the move represents further progress in streaming, on the other hand it erodes the potency of broadcast TV. And it speaks to a future potential model, if/when the league fully pivots to streaming and cuts out the traditional networks.


In lieu of the games in a local market being available for free through the traditional airwaves captured by a television antenna, they’ll be available for free on the apps corresponding with the content provider.

And so, just as current viewers in a given market need to have only a TV (and a way to catch the signal) to watch local games for free, future viewers will only need to have a cell phone device. Or a TV and a WiFi signal.

source; Starting in 2025, no NFL games will be exclusively broadcast on traditional TV

 

[Rekkapryde]

 

[daemonova]

Sign of the times

Antenna TV is a thing of the past. Even if you buy a decent antenna TV now, there is no guarantee that it will give you all the channels you're supposed to get.

And anything could be hacked

 

[JordanwiththeWiz]

IPTV and streaming pirate sites woke up these league. Fox was testing it out by the Super Bowl on Tubi.

 

[Canada Goose]

Sign of the times

Even if you buy a decent antenna TV now, there is no guarantee that it will give you all the channels you're supposed to get.

Yep. When I lived in NYC my antenna was not able to pick up channel 7 (ABC). I moved the Florida and my antenna sometimes struggled to pick up the local CBS station in Tampa.

 

[Canada Goose]

IPTV and streaming pirate sites woke up these league. Fox was testing it out by the Super Bowl on Tubi.

I was typing stream in a google tab in a private browsing window and it automatically filled it out to "streameast" Streameast has trended on twitter before, its amazing how an illegal free streaming site has become so mainstream



There's a ton of free steaming sports sites but the vast majority of them are awful and feels like you are playing russian roulette with your PC even WITH the ad block on There's only like two or three quality free streaming sports sites even in 2024.