

Live regular-season and playoff games are available only on your phone or tablet. Can I watch live regular-season and playoff games on my TV via NFL+? The condensed replays go back as far as 2009. The premium tier includes everything from what had been NFL Game Pass, everything from the basic NFL+ tier, plus ad-free full and condensed (45-minute) game replays and ad-free All-22 (which is the birds-eye-view video watched by players and coaches). The cheaper tier gives you live local and prime-time regular-season and postseason games on your phone or tablet, live out-of-market preseason games on those devices or your TV, live game audio for all games, and ad-free access to the NFL’s library of on-demand content such as NFL Films and NFL Network programming. The premium tier is $9.99 a month or $79 a year. The basic tier is $4.99 a month or $39 for the year. Planning for NFL+ has been several years in the making, with league owners briefed on the launch in March. Younger fans tend to stream more, so sports leagues are trying to reach that demo where it’s consuming content.

About 5 percent of NFL live-game viewership is digital, and that number is expected to rise. Many of those cord-cutting households have opted for streaming services as replacements, so the NFL is going where its fans are going. TV households with cable or satellite has declined from 110 million several years ago to about 70 million today. While traditional linear TV continues to make up the bulk of viewership, the number of U.S. The broadcast industry continues to undergo radical shifts in how people consume content.

Here’s an FAQ guide to what we know so far about NFL+. Whether something like that ever comes remains to be seen. And while that’s not inherently a bad thing - especially amid the cord-cutting trend - it does mean that NFL fans remain without their holy grail: a streaming service that offers literally all games. In other words, it caters more toward mobile users.
