{"id":2380379,"date":"2024-12-16T05:25:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T10:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nfl-streaming-scheme-makes-watching-football-impossible\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T05:28:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T10:28:18","slug":"nfl-streaming-scheme-makes-watching-football-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nfl-streaming-scheme-makes-watching-football-impossible\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Streaming Scheme Makes Watching Football Impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnfl-streaming-scheme-makes-watching-football-impossible%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2380379&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the challenges that \u2063American football fans \u200bface due\u2062 to \u200bthe increasing\u200b complexity of accessing live games. The fragmentation \u2064of TV and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-15-most-anticipated-albums-of-2021\/\" title=\"The 15 Most Anticipated Albums of 2021\u00a0\">streaming services<\/a> has \u200bmade \u200dit tough and costly for viewers\u200b to enjoy their favourite sport, especially during \u2062the fall and winter\u2063 seasons. This \u2064issue has become particularly pronounced since the NFL&#8217;s 2021 media distribution agreement, which designed \u200cto expand \u2063the \u200dleague&#8217;s reach\u200d across various platforms. however,\u200b the\u200b result has been a confusing experience for \u200dfans who now have to navigate multiple networks and streaming apps to\u2062 watch \u2064games. As\u200d a result, what was once a straightforward viewing experience has \u200bturned into a cumbersome task for football enthusiasts.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Like any good American, I prefer to spend my fall and winter weekends watching the best sport of all time. Thanks to streaming fragmentation, however, tuning into even a few of the biggest and best football games has become a ridiculous, remote-fumbling, and expensive feat.<\/p>\n<p>The problem posed by the splicing and dicing of desirable TV and movie content is certainly not limited to football. Yet the ramifications of that fracturing are felt most by pigskin fanatics who, between college and professional game schedules, expect to tune into their favorite sport five days a week.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL&rsquo;s foray into the mess that onscreen entertainment has become can be traced back to 2021, when the NFL <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/nfl-completes-long-term-media-distribution-agreements-through-2033-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">finalized an 11-year media distribution agreement<\/a> that, starting in 2023, auctioned off thousands of games to various TV and streaming networks.<\/p>\n<p>The league pitched the move as the best way to &ldquo;reach a broader audience.&rdquo; Over a year into the agreement, though, it&rsquo;s clear that selling games&rsquo; media rights to what feels like a billion different networks and streaming apps has become a channel-flipping nightmare for the at-home audience keeping the league&rsquo;s TV prominence alive.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL website boasts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/ways-to-watch\/by-device\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">18 cable TV networks and streaming services<\/a> fans can use to tune into games. Not a single one of those, however, promises access to all 272 regular-season face-offs.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, a typical week of viewing for professional football fans and fantasy managers alike requires subscriptions to several streaming apps and the sanity to remember which one is showing games when. <\/p>\n<p>Thursday Night Football <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/ways-to-watch\/by-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">airs on Amazon Prime<\/a>. Sunday day games are spread out a little more between Fox Sports, Paramount+, and the NFL&rsquo;s streaming options, making live-TV streaming bundles offered by platforms like YouTube TV potentially worth the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/12\/12\/youtube-tv-price-increase-netflix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ever-increasing price<\/a>. Viewers who stick around to watch the big Sunday evening event, on the other hand, have to flip the channel to NBC or sign into Peacock. On Monday, all of the action can be found on ESPN. <\/p>\n<p>Fans who shell out for NFL+, which offers a &ldquo;combination of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-in-10-small-businesses-have-automated-jobs-amid-nationwide-worker-shortage\/\" title=\"3 In 10 Small Businesses Have Automated Jobs Amid Nationwide Worker Shortage\">live local<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">primetime mobile games&#038;rdquo<\/a>; for <a href=\"https:\/\/id.nfl.com\/subscriptions\/select\/nflplus?signinpages=checkout&amp;signuppages=checkout,favoriteteam&amp;upsellType=nfl-plus-card&amp;upsellLocation=nfl.com:ways-to-watch:ways-to-watch:by-day&amp;redirecturl=https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/plus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$6.99 a month or $49.99 a season<\/a>, get access to a good chunk of these games. Yet even NFL+ subscribers miss out on the matchups&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.nfl.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/4989178815516-What-is-the-blackout-policy-for-live-games-on-NFL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">played and aired outside of their market region<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Less than $10 bucks on a couple of your favorite streaming services here and there doesn&rsquo;t sound like a bad deal if you&rsquo;re tired of paying for cable and you like the content those platforms put out. Spending $7 on the more than half a dozen streaming packages (many laden with viewing-limiting caveats such as a subscriber&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-us\/news\/watch-nfl-plus\/blt4c2c5368ea2ef58c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">location<\/a>), however, makes the olden days of paying for all-you-can-watch games on cable look like a cakewalk.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the NFL&rsquo;s streaming scheme wouldn&rsquo;t be so bad if viewers could split the price of Amazon Prime, Paramount+, Peacock, and other subscriptions with friends and family. As streaming costs rise and crackdowns on password sharing intensify, though, the likelihood that any one household will get to watch NFL games for less than a few hundred bucks a year is low if not impossible. <\/p>\n<p>Paying to watch NFL games from home is still certainly cheaper <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1864000347422752879\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(and warmer)<\/a> than buying tickets to see them in person. Streaming fragmentation, unfortunately, puts a huge damper on the comforts of couch coaching.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/nfl\/article-14143441\/Fans-convinced-NFL-rigged-Kansas-City-Chiefs-controversy-Raiders.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rigged<\/a>, but not for the Kansas City Chiefs. It is rigged against the league&rsquo;s loyal fans who are milked for money thanks to a myriad of media distribution agreements.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Streaming fragmentation makes watching football games frustrating and costly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2380380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/pexels-robert-hernandez-villalta-35224-128457-scaled-e1734112103712.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5541,7215,3847,17389],"class_list":["post-2380379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-streaming"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/pexels-robert-hernandez-villalta-35224-128457-scaled-e1734112103712.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380383,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380379\/revisions\/2380383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2380380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}