The 2026-27 NFL season is the first since the league took a 10% stake in ESPN. Netflix now streams NFL and MLB games in the same calendar year, and the WNBA sold its 2026 national games to five separate partners. Sports media rights used to sort by channel. This year they sort by app, and a fan who follows one team through a full season will open several of them. Here is how the major U.S. packages break down, and what they mean for the person holding the remote.
The NFL schedule released in May “places more games than ever in exclusive broadcast windows,” according to Front Office Sports. The breakdown:
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