{"id":542395,"date":"2026-03-15T17:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/542395\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T17:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:48:08","slug":"nfl-seeing-50-60-increase-in-rights-fee-in-paramount-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/542395\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL seeing 50-60% increase in rights fee in Paramount talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"TAMPA, FLORIDA - NOVEMBER 09: Detail view of a CBS graphic prior to an NFL football game between the New England Patriots and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Raymond James Stadium on November 9, 2025 in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Perry Knotts\/Getty Images)\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/CPPU6JJGOZE2JLBHHMYB2RZWGQ.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>CBS currently \u201cpays around\u201d $2.1B a year, on average, for its Sunday afternoon NFL games. Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">The NFL and Paramount Skydance\u2019s renewal talks for the league\u2019s media rights are \u201cbeginning to take shape.\u201d Sources said that execs from both sides are \u201cnegotiating a price increase, with a bid-ask spread midpoint around 50% or 60%.\u201d CBS currently \u201cpays around\u201d $2.1B a year, on average, for its Sunday afternoon NFL games. A 50% increase would mean CBS \u201cwould pay more than\u201d $3B in its next media deal. In return for the increased revenue, the NFL \u201cwould eliminate the opt-out clause after the 2029-30 season that it put in its original deal with Paramount.\u201d CBS would begin paying the new fee \u201cas soon as next season for the next eight years for the same package of games\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/13\/nfl-media-deal-paramount.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/13\/nfl-media-deal-paramount.html\">CNBC SPORT, 3\/13<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS currently \u201cpays around\u201d $2.1B a year, on average, for its Sunday afternoon NFL games. Getty Images The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,134,593,85],"class_list":["post-542395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}