News: NFL nearing deal with DirecTV re: Sunday Ticket

[WoodysGirl]

The NFL makes a lot of money and starting in 2015, the league could be pulling in up to $400 million more per year. According to the Sports Business Journal, DirecTV and the NFL have reached a 'broad agreement' to extend the satellite company's "Sunday Ticket" package through the next decade.

Under terms of the new deal, DirecTV would pay the league somewhere between $1.3 billion and $1.4 billion per year through 2021 or 2022. Under the current contract, which expires at the end of the 2014 season, DirecTV is paying the NFL about $1 billion per season.

If the new deal runs through 2022 at $1.4 billion per year, that would be an extra $3.2 billion in the NFL's pocket over the life of the deal compared to the previous deal.

More: http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on...directv-sunday-ticket-deal-worth-14b-annually

 

[theSHOW]

CHA.............CHING!

 

[Future]

Who is the NFL paying off to still remain a non-for-profit.

lol, what a joke.

 

[SportsGuru80]

Mannn SMH

 

[links18]

So how much is Sunday Ticket gonna cost now?

 

[CCBoy]

Someone do some quick predictions on the new cap increases....hooooah!

 

[theSHOW]

So how much is Sunday Ticket gonna cost now?

MORE

 

[Bungarian]

Sucks because I don't like Directv but want Sunday Ticket.

 

[skinsscalper]

If anyone had any doubt that this would happen, they were fooling themselves.

 

[theSHOW]

Someone do some quick predictions on the new cap increases....hooooah!

You don't understand that there is no advantage getting more cap when every team gets more. Just higher costs for the fan to see the NFL in every venue.

 

[diehard2294]

Goodell and henchmen to the rescue

 

[CCBoy]

You don't understand that there is no advantage getting more cap when every team gets more. Just higher costs for the fan to see the NFL in every venue.

Oh noooo, there is then, cap room and one can start to become competitive...there still is a market available then.

 

[xwalker]

You don't understand that there is no advantage getting more cap when every team gets more. Just higher costs for the fan to see the NFL in every venue.

It's a big short term advantage for teams that are tight against the cap.

 

[Risen Star]

So how much is Sunday Ticket gonna cost now?

I don't even want to know.

But whatever it is, I'll pay it.

 

[TheCount]

If anyone had any doubt that this would happen, they were fooling themselves.

Doubt about what?

 

[skinsscalper]

Directv securing, again, exclusive rights and the bid skyrocketing.

 

[Floatyworm]

Welp...........Looks like Directv can continue to offer crappy customer service w/ their monopoly on the NFL.

 

[links18]

I don't even want to know.

But whatever it is, I'll pay it.

Captive market, unless you don't mind those god awful internet feeds.

 

[StarBoyz83]

I hate direct tv but good for them I guess. Redzone is the best for me.

 

[EST_1986]

Sucks because I don't like Directv but want Sunday Ticket.

And this is why Directv pays so much for the exclusive rights.