YouTube is beginning presales of NFL Sunday Ticket subscription beginning right now. The corporate is promoting the add-on to subscribers of the YouTube TV Base plan at $249 for the season. The corporate can be providing NFL Sunday Ticket and NFL RedZone bundles at $289 for the season in the course of the presales.
The streaming firm will enhance the value for each these packages by $100 as soon as the presale interval ends on June 6. Customers will get entry to all native, nationwide, and out-of-market video games.
For comparability, DirecTV, which had the rights to stream NFL Sunday Ticket since 1994, charged $293.94 per season for the bottom bundle and $395.94 per season for the NFL Sunday Ticket Max bundle with further content material.
Final yr, YouTube began promoting subscriptions to different streaming suppliers via its Primetime Channels providing — that is completely different from YouTube TV add-ons. The Google-owned service will even promote NFL Sunday Ticket via this retailer on the presale worth of $349 and the retail worth of $449. The NFL Sunday Ticket and NFL RedZone bundle will price $389 in the course of the presale interval and $489 after that.
YouTube picked up the streaming rights for NFL Sunday Ticket final December in a deal that reportedly price Google a whopping $2 billion per season.
Final month, the corporate introduced a characteristic beneath early entry known as the “Multiviews” characteristic. It lets customers view a number of streams in a mosaic format on one display screen. YouTube mentioned that it’ll allow this perform for NFL Sunday Ticket streaming.
The corporate can be promising a protracted checklist of options like limitless DVR storage, customized suggestions, the power to view key performs, NFL Fantasy knowledge, real-time stats and conceal spoilers on YouTube TV. Moreover, multiview and key performs options are coming to Primetime Channels.
“Customers who subscribe via Primetime Channels will see reside NFL video games featured prominently of their feeds, to allow them to rapidly leap into the motion on recreation days, instantly on YouTube. We’re additionally engaged on including purchasing integrations so viewers can simply purchase merchandise to assist their groups, and social options that YouTube customers are already accustomed to, like chat, polls, and extra,” the corporate mentioned in its announcement.