{"id":585433,"date":"2026-04-15T09:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/585433\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T09:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:37:08","slug":"netflix-would-love-to-televise-nfls-regular-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/585433\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix &#8220;would love&#8221; to televise NFL&#8217;s regular-season opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix is interested in a package of 2026 regular-season games that includes the Week 1 contest from Australia. If it had its druthers, it would already be streaming the game to be played one night earlier, in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Via Brendon Kleen of Awful Announcing, a recent article from Bloomberg regarding the federal government\u2019s sudden interest in the NFL includes a key claim about Netflix\u2019s ambitions: \u201cNetflix <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/netflix\/love-rights-nfl-season-opener.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">would love to find a way<\/a> to get the season opener, which currently airs on NBC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Week 1 opener is part of the NBC Sunday night package, which includes the Week 1 opener and the Thanksgiving night game. That won\u2019t change until 2030, at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix aspires to televise big events in sports. It may not want a weekly package.<\/p>\n<p>In theory, the NFL could peel the Week 1 opener away from NBC as part of a renegotiation. At a time when NBC may be unwilling to pay the NFL more for the next four years of games, giving up the opener could be part of a compromise.<\/p>\n<p>Still, any movement of a significant event (like the regular-season opener) from a three-letter broadcast network to a streamer will do little to take the steam out of the federal government\u2019s multi-pronged assault on Big Shield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix is interested in a package of 2026 regular-season games that includes the Week 1 contest from Australia.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-585433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}