Getting into territory as soon as reserved for NBA broadcasts, the NFL plans to proceed broadcasting video games on Christmas Day after the 2024 doubleheader on Netflix introduced Wednesday.
NFL Vice President of Media Hans Schroeder mentioned Thursday that the league has already outlined plans for Christmas video games in 2025 and 2026. Since Christmas falls on a Saturday in 2027, it’s nearly sure that common season video games will even be performed that day.
“Amazon may have their conventional primetime Thursday night time recreation on Christmas subsequent yr, and we’ll have one other recreation on Netflix within the afternoon,” Schroeder mentioned throughout a convention name discussing the league schedule for the 2024 season that was launched Wednesday.
“Netflix may have a recreation on Friday the next yr. We’ll use our eager about ’25 to find out how we go into ’26.”
With Christmas falling on a Wednesday in 2024, the 4 groups concerned had been scheduled the week earlier than for Saturday video games to imitate the Saturday by means of Thursday recreation week schedule.
Historically, the NBA is the one recreation competing for airtime with a sparse sports activities broadcast schedule on Christmas Day. After rankings confirmed followers had been genuinely fascinated by Christmas video games in 2023, the NFL claims it has determined to decide to extra in future seasons.
In line with Nielsen, all three video games had greater than 27 million viewers, rankings that piqued the NFL’s curiosity. The video games had been dropped exterior of full community broadcast offers, and Netflix reportedly supplied $75 million for every of its three vacation video games.
VP of Broadcast Mike North mentioned the NFL was “not pondering” about planning for Christmas 2024 right now final yr.
“While you noticed the Christmas rankings for the tripleheader final yr, and the tripleheader the yr earlier than, I feel it is 4 out of the final 5 years that we have performed on Christmas, the followers have spoken,” North mentioned. “They need the video games there and our broadcast companions need the video games there.”
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