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Netflix Scores Two NFL Christmas Day 2024 Games Under Three-Year Deal With League
Netflix is reportedly poised to win streaming rights to two NFL games on Christmas Day 2024, which would be its first move into big-league sports.
Netflix will be the “likely winner” of media rights to the pair of NFL games scheduled for Dec. 25 for the upcoming football season, Puck’s John Ourand reported, citing anonymous sources. Per the Puck report, the NFL delayed the release of its 2024-25 schedule until May 15, and one of the main reasons is that the league has been “in the middle of a high-stakes negotiation with Netflix over its planned Christmas Day games.” Netflix execs have repeatedly said the streamer isn’t interested in shelling out big bucks for massive sports-rights deals — while it also has been steadily upping its lineup of live sports content as well as sports-adjacent programming.
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