Netflix Inks Three-Season Deal To Stream NFL Christmas Games
Netflix Inks Three Season Deal With NFL, Will Stream Christmas Day Games, X Users Say Bah Humbug
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Per NFL.com:
“Last year, we decided to take a big bet on live — tapping into massive fandoms across comedy, reality TV, sports and more,” said Bela Bajaria, Netflix chief content officer. “There are no live annual events, sports or otherwise, that compare with the audiences NFL football attracts. We’re so excited that the NFL’s Christmas Day games will be only on Netflix.”
“We couldn’t be more excited to be the first professional sports league to partner with Netflix to bring live games to fans around the world,” said Hans Schroeder, NFL executive vice president of media distribution. “The NFL on Christmas has become a tradition and to partner with Netflix, a service whose biggest day of the year is typically this holiday, is the perfect combination to grow this event globally for NFL fans.”
X Users Are Saying Bah Humbug
While Netflix is excited to land some NFL football, fans are not happy they might have to pay for a streaming service to watch games that would typically be on their televisions for free.
“This really sucks for people who don’t have Netflix,” one user on X, formerly Twitter, wrote.
Another X user wrote, “The most diabolical part of this is putting it on a service that makes it basically impossible to even change the channel over to the NBA games during commercial breaks.”
Bah humbug, indeed.
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