Netflix is “looking to expand its current two-game package” of NFL rights “to four games,” according to sources cited by the WALL STREET JOURNAL. Sources noted the streamer is “interested in adding” the league’s “new Thanksgiving Eve game and an international game, likely in the season’s opening week.” Netflix is in the final year of its three-year Christmas Day game package, for which it paid about $75M a game. The NFL reclaimed the rights to four games as part of its deal last year to sell the NFL Network to ESPN and take an ownership stake in the sports service. A fifth game is “also up for grabs” -- the first international game of the season, which the NFL has “sold as a stand-alone property for the past two seasons.” A source said that the league is “taking a flexible approach to selling the games” and is “willing to field offers for some or all of the inventory from suitors” (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 3/30).
Report: Netflix looking to expand its NFL package
