Fox is in line to acquire two additional NFL games this season, the company\u2019s CEO Lachlan Murdoch said during an investor call on Monday morning, per Brian Steinberg of Variety.<\/p>\n
The announcement from Murdoch likely means Fox secured two of the five games that reports last week first indicated would be split among Netflix and YouTube<\/a>. Soon after those initial reports were filed, subsequent reports indicated that YouTube had \u201cbalked\u201d at the idea of splitting the games with Netflix<\/a>, and that Netflix would receive three of the five games available for purchase, expanding its total package to five games when including the Christmas Day doubleheader, leaving two additional games for the NFL to sell. Those games, it was reported last week, were being shopped to broadcast networks after YouTube seemingly backed out.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n On the earnings call, Murdoch revealed the two added regular-season games would come in Week 10, which will create the first-ever \u201ctripleheader\u201d in broadcast television history. Fox will air an international game from Munich, Germany, in the morning, leading into a traditional early-afternoon and late-afternoon schedule. The second game will be played on Saturday in Week 15.<\/p>\n Four of the five games the NFL took to market were previously allocated to ESPN as\u00a0Monday Night Football doubleheaders. The inventory was returned to the league as part of its recently approved equity deal with ESPN. The fifth available game was reportedly the Week 1 game from Australia, which appears to be headed to Netflix<\/a>.<\/p>\n Adding games to Fox\u2019s schedule would help make sense of prior reporting that the NFL will slightly increase its presence on broadcast television this season, a decision that happens to come amid federal scrutiny into the transition of games from linear television to streaming. Fox, as previously reported, has also secured rights to a primetime Christmas Day game following the Netflix doubleheader. Last season, that game aired on Prime Video.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The news also comes shortly after a bombshell\u00a0Wall Street Journal report filed last week which described a pressure campaign by Fox Corporation founder Rupert Murdoch<\/a> in which he solicited President Donald Trump to investigate the NFL\u2019s media rights practices.<\/p>\n On Monday\u2019s call, Lachlan Murdoch said, \u201cThere is no tension really with the NFL,\u201d despite Fox\u2019s apparent efforts to pressure the league.<\/p>\n The post Fox acquiring two additional NFL games this season, Lachlan Murdoch says<\/a> appeared first on Awful Announcing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fox is in line to acquire two additional NFL games this season, the company\u2019s CEO Lachlan Murdoch said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[119769,116564,7,863,111747,13476,6,117446,5098],"class_list":["post-888438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-brian-steinberg","tag-broadcast-television","tag-football","tag-fox","tag-lachlan-murdoch","tag-netflix","tag-nfl","tag-rupert-murdoch","tag-youtube"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116556567934570764","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}