{"id":793186,"date":"2026-05-13T10:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/793186\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T10:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:12:15","slug":"ceo-ted-sarandos-reiterates-that-netflix-doesnt-want-a-full-nfl-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/793186\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO Ted Sarandos reiterates that Netflix doesn&#8217;t want a full NFL package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix is in the NFL business. And Netflix will significantly increase its current footprint, from two games in 2024 and 2025 to five in 2026. It also has aspirations to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/netflix-wants-to-expand-its-relationship-with-the-nfl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">further expand the relationship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But Netflix doesn\u2019t want to be all in.<\/p>\n<p>Via John Ourand of Puck, Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos said in an appearance on Fox Business that the company doesn\u2019t want a full-season package of pro football games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re leaning into the eventized event,\u201d Sarandos said. \u201cWe\u2019re <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/puck.news\/newsletters\/the-varsity\/?utm_campaign=The+Varsity+-+SUBSCRIBERS+%285%2F12%2F26%29&amp;utm_content=The+Varsity+-+SUBSCRIBERS+%285%2F12%2F26%29&amp;utm_medium=email_action&amp;utm_source=customer.io&amp;utm_term=f6c6060e9bb201bc831b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">not bidding on whole seasons of sports<\/a>, including the NFL.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Via Sports Business Journal, the NFL pitched Netflix on a Sunday morning package of games. This would have undoubtedly consisted of international contests, which would be conducive to a global streaming platform. Netflix, however, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AustinKarp\/status\/2054237161533108648?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wasn\u2019t interested<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix\u2019s lack of ambition to buy a full-season package narrows the universe of potential alternatives to the current partners that have weekly packages: CBS, Fox, NBC, ABC\/ESPN, and Prime Video. Which necessarily becomes a factor if\/when one or more of them opt to wait until 2029 (2030 for ABC\/ESPN) to renegotiate their current deals, in lieu of paying more now for contracts that cover four more seasons of football.<\/p>\n<p>Still, there are others. Apple and YouTube could, in theory, take a full package. And Prime Video, if it wanted, could take two games per week.<\/p>\n<p>However it plays out, the league and its current partners are in the early stages of a delicate game of chess, checkers, and chicken. With one of them (Fox) attempting to preserve the status quo by pressing the buttons of the political process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix is in the NFL business. And Netflix will significantly increase its current footprint, from two games in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":793187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-793186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116566737472494110","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}