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NFL Sunday Ticket, a mainstay of football fans in the United States since 1994, will be getting a slew of digital upgrades when it moves from DirecTV to YouTube after the ongoing season.
However, the NFL is set to face a $6 billion class action lawsuit alleging that it limited broadcast games and raised the price of the Sunday Ticket. The lawsuit is allegedly being filed by both residential and commercial customers.
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As per Front Office Sports, DirecTV owns the Sunday Ticket until the end of the season, and the plaintiffs' attorneys are suing for damages on behalf of people who have acquired the service since 2011.
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While the residential class has at least 2.4 million members, the commercial class has roughly 48,000 members. A trial is scheduled to begin in February 2024, after attorneys for the NFL and its franchises argued that the plaintiffs' lawyers failed to fulfill the legal conditions for class formation.
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The league has experienced constant public outrage for altering conventional ways of playing or watching the game, and this $6 billion lawsuit is the latest example. Everyone can only conjecture about what will happen in the future until the trial is over.
List of features of NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube
NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube will be available standalone, but more money can be saved with a YouTube TV membership. The most notable feature is that it may be accessed via an internet connection rather than a cable connection. Plans are also available with or without NFL RedZone.
As per YouTube, the features of the NFL Sunday Ticket standalone are:
- Every out-of-market Sunday afternoon game.
- No satellite dish needed:
The features for Sunday Ticket + YouTube TV are:
- YouTube TV - 100+ live top channels like CBS, ESPN, FOX, and NBC for the most NFL games in one place.
- Every Sunday game with no requirement of a satellite dish.
- With a YouTube TV membership, you can money on the Sunday Ticket.
When the Sunday Ticket is released on YouTube, it will include a variety of other elements that will undoubtedly assist in increasing the NFL's engagement among young fans.
Old-aged fans are sure to be dissatisfied with the switch from DirecTV to YouTube, but the league is doing everything possible to maximize income with new services.
