LOS ANGELES — DirecTV didn’t punt the entire “NFL Sunday Ticket” package of professional football, after all. On Thursday, the satellite TV provider and EverPass Media announced they would distribute Sunday Ticket games to more than 300,000 business establishments in the U.S. — sports bars, casinos, restaurants and offices — through a new multiyear television rights package with the NFL. The NFL in December announced it was shifting the popular Sunday Ticket offering for residential consumers to Google’s YouTube TV. Lately, DirecTV was bleeding more than $100 million a year on the pricey package that provides out-of-market games to football fans. For its part, EverPass Media will provide the platform to distribute NFL Sunday Ticket to commercial establishments, EverPass Chief Executive Alex Kaplan said in a statement.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 25, 2023 20:06 UTC