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Matthew S.: If your team is bad, how much do you want to pay to watch your bad team week after week? And if your team is good, then more (most) games are on a national broadcast, so you pay for 17 weeks but really only need it half the time. If whoever gets Sunday Ticket doesn’t keep Siciliano, I’ll buy the NFL RedZone if I can. Once DirecTV loses Sunday Ticket, they’ll probably lose me as a subscriber as well. Scott B: Love Sunday Ticket and love Andrew Siciliano on the RedZone. It feels like (DirecTV has done) the bare minimum to provide the service without any investment in user experience and support - feels like it’s held together by duct tape and bubble gum. This is a huge problem, especially early in the season when you haven’t interacted with the app/website/service in nine months since the prior season. Tyler P: If any issues with login or needing support, it is near impossible to get help.
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I do wish that it was team-specific or an a la carte option (add teams, conference, division, plus RedZone) and maybe that should be how it is reformatted. Jason M: I have had Sunday Ticket for over 10 years now, but I have watched less of the actual games over time as the RedZone Channel has become the gold standard for the coverage. But at least the poverty-stricken NFL owners will get more money. I also have had far more buffering issues and outages with my ISP and other streaming services than I have ever had with DirecTV … Overall, it is going to be a losing proposition. I like being able to go to church, come home and fast-forward through the commercials. I fear going to a streaming service will lose the flexibility of the DVR. I have had no issues with DirecTV’s Sunday Ticket and their Extra Innings package is second to none as well. Roger B: I have loved every minute of Sunday Ticket and it has been worth every penny. As far as I’m concerned, they can get bent. Over the years, they just kept getting more and more expensive and they never listened to customers who were requesting single-team access within the U.S. Sean H: I can’t wait for the contract to end. Also, I wish they had a package for just an individual team instead of all of the games. Below are excerpts of some of the complaints, wants and hopes for the future of Sunday Ticket (edited for clarity).ĭave Z: Not being able to pause the games sucks. Others worried about buffering and streaming lags, while a bar owner asked how these establishments are supposed to handle streaming.
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Many asked for single teams, and even solo games, to be options rather than having to buy all the contests. Fans in rural areas worried about weak broadband if the package went all streaming, some about the loss of Sunday Ticket’s RedZone. A lot of haymakers were thrown DirectTV’s way, but some compliments as well. We got two bidders.”īut beyond money for the NFL and which distributor, or distributors, gets Sunday Ticket, what do fans want out of the transition? The Athletic asked readers their likes and dislikes of the current package, and what they hope for in the new one.
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It’s so amazing, right?” TV consultant Patrick Crakes said. I mean, Sunday Ticket could possibly cure cancer. “It was, remember: This was the greatest package of rights, Sunday Ticket. The NFL clearly wants to create a frothy bidding process, leading some to question how coveted this package truly is.
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There is even a report that an Apple-Sunday Ticket deal is done, though The Athletic could not confirm that. The most likely result is Sunday Ticket ending up with a streaming company like Amazon or Apple, which sources said is the NFL’s preferred outlet seeing as Jeff Bezos’ empire already has Thursday Night Football.
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The cost of course rose with each renewal, reaching an average of $1.5 billion annually, straining DirecTV’s budget under new owner AT&T and leading to years of chatter about what would happen to the package. Sunday Ticket proved a huge success for satellite carrier DirecTV, which renewed at least four times, including an eight-year agreement in 2014, which expires after this coming season. A newspaper ad then touted, “The NFL Plays Games Most Weeks, Why Not Get Them All?” Bars and restaurants suddenly could show multiple games at once, creating new business, and DirectTV’s business soared. When the NFL and DirecTV first went to market with the out-of-market games package in 1994, it was a marvel for displaced fans who previously had no other way to watch their teams. For years, prognosticating the fate of the much-revered NFL Sunday Ticket package has been akin to a parlor game, a steady source of gossip, stories and fan angst about who the league would sell the rights to.