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Daily Crunch: YouTube sets $249 starting price for NFL Sunday Ticket subscriptions
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Daily Crunch: YouTube sets $249 starting price for NFL Sunday Ticket subscriptions by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
YouTube TV reveals NFL Sunday Ticket pricing
The NFL season just ended two months ago. My beloved Kansas City Chiefs are champions once again. And it’s time for all of us cord-cutters to figure out how the heck we’re going to watch football in 2023.
Fortunately, the answer is easy, if a bit pricey. Starting in the 2023 season, YouTube TV will be the exclusive home of NFL Sunday Ticket, a streaming subscription that allows you to watch every out-of-market NFL game live on Sundays. With YouTube TV and Sunday Ticket, you can see every NFL game you could possibly want to see.
And you might want to pony up the cash now instead of waiting for September. Here’s why.
NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV: How it works, price, and early-bird special
If you’re not familiar with NFL Sunday Ticket, the main thing you need to know is that it used to belong to DirecTV and now it belongs to YouTube TV. In practical terms, that means you can now access it without a satellite subscription and, thus, without dealing with all the ridiculous hidden fees that come with a satellite subscription.
But you’re still going to have to pay, and pay quite a bit to get Sunday Ticket. The regular price for Sunday Ticket if you subscribe to YouTube TV will be $349, on top of the $73/mo you already pay for the base service. That doesn’t get you Sunday Ticket forever; you just get it for one season. There’s also a $389 option that bundles Sunday Ticket and RedZone, a special channel that whips through all the NFL action on a Sunday, going from game to game when the action starts getting exciting.
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Sidenote: RedZone is 100 percent worth it if you really care about football. It’s seven straight hours of commercial-free football and you only see the fun parts. It’s intoxicating. You can add either of those options to your YouTube TV plan by going to your Google account and clicking on “Payments and Subscriptions.”
That’s not all, though. Google is also offering Sunday Ticket and RedZone through its PrimeTime Channels service. Put simply, this is a way to get all of the NFL action without paying for YouTube TV on top of it. Unfortunately, there’s a big price hike if you decide to go down this road. Via Primetime Channels, NFL Sunday Ticket will cost $449, and the RedZone bundle costs $489.
And that’s still not all. If you subscribe to any of those options before June 6, you’ll get a $100 discount. Suddenly, for YouTube TV subscribers, Sunday Ticket plus RedZone for $289 doesn’t seem like such a bad deal. It definitely beats the price of going to a bar every week, and it’s less risky than watching football through, erm, other, less reliable means.
Whether you choose to patronize Google or keep watching football your own way, at least now you know there’s a way to get everything for less than a month’s rent.
YouTube’s NFL Sunday Ticket packages start at $249
YouTube has revealed the initial pricing for its first season of NFL Sunday Ticket packages. There are a range of pricing options that depend on when you make your purchase and if you have a YouTube TV plan.
A Sunday Ticket package will be cheaper if you’re a YouTube TV subscriber. It will start at $249 for the base plan if you sign up during the presale, which ends on June 6th. This will cover out-of-market games for the season, though other games will still air on YouTube TV. Adding NFL RedZone takes the price up to $289 during the presale. If you miss out on the presale, you’ll pay $349 for the base plan and $389 for a Sunday Ticket and RedZone bundle.
If you don’t have YouTube TV (which now costs $73 per month), you’ll need to add $100 to each of those prices. YouTube TV subscribers will also have the option to subscribe to only RedZone for $11 per month if they prefer. There’s no option as yet to buy a package for an individual team or even a single game, but those options are said to be on the way.
Most of these options are more expensive than what DirecTV charged for NFL Sunday Ticket for the 2022 season before it lost the rights to the package. DirecTV’s base Sunday Ticket plan cost $294 last year. Sunday Ticket was no longer viable for DirecTV, which was said to be losing $500 million a year on the package.
YouTube is believed to have beaten out Apple and other potential suitors for Sunday Ticket. According to reports, Google has a seven-year deal with the NFL and is paying $2 billion per annum for the right to sell the packages. Naturally, the company will be looking to make that money back through Sunday Ticket sales and YouTube TV subscriptions.
YouTube notes that fans will be able to watch Sunday Ticket games on the web, TVs, phones and tablets without the need for a satellite dish. It notes that Sunday Ticket subscribers will have access to features such as multiview streaming and the option to check out key plays. YouTube TV members will also have unlimited DVR storage, real-time stats, NFL Fantasy data and the ability to hide spoilers.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/youtubes-nfl-sunday-ticket-packages-start-at-249-174949489.html?src=rss