<P> NFL Sunday Ticket is an out - of - market sports package that broadcasts National Football League (NFL) regular season games unavailable on local affiliates . It carries all regional Sunday afternoon games produced by Fox and CBS . The ideal customer of this package is presumed (based on advertisements) to be a fan of a team who is unable to see their team on local television because they do not reside in one of that team's markets, or sports bars who want to increase business by attracting fans of out of town teams . The package is distributed in the United States exclusively by AT&T Inc. under its DirecTV unit (which also offers it on the Internet, on certain tablets and smartphones, and JetBlue Airways flights); in Canada on streaming service DAZN, in Mexico and Latin America on SKY México, in South America and the Caribbean on DirecTV Latin America, and several cable providers in The Bahamas and Bermuda . </P> <P> Satellite TV provider DirecTV has exclusive rights to the NFL Sunday Ticket package in the United States until the end of the 2022--23 NFL season . Although other satellite and cable providers supposedly are allowed to bid on the rights to carry NFL Sunday Ticket if they agree to carry the NFL Network, DirecTV decided to extend their current contract beyond 2014 by paying the NFL $1.5 billion per year for the next eight years . Reaching the deal was also a condition of AT&T's 2015 acquisition of DirecTV As of the 2015 season, the service is now available through an online - only subscription exclusively for those who are unable to use DirecTV services . </P> <P> NFL Sunday Ticket viewers do not count towards local Nielsen ratings; thus offering NFL Sunday Ticket on cable might cost CBS and Fox affiliates millions of dollars in lost revenue from local commercial breaks (as opposed to national ads sold by the networks). In turn, affiliates help subsidize the networks' programming costs . Since the launch of new satellites, DirecTV no longer drops other HD feeds to broadcast the NFL Sunday Ticket games in HD . DirecTV offers a free preview of NFL Sunday Ticket for the first week of the season . </P>

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