Netflix will use CBS Sports activities as producer for the 2 Nationwide Soccer League video games the streamer is carrying this Christmas.
The Wall St. Journal stories the one-year cope with CBS Sports activities is just for the manufacturing of the video games, and doesn’t embrace choice of the on-air expertise. Whereas that doesn’t rule out use of CBS announcers, Netflix might choose to place its personal stamp on the sport with totally different selections, the WSJ stories.
CBS will obtain a manufacturing charge for the 2 video games, in addition to promotional spots for its personal programming. CBS may even obtain advert stock within the broadcast protection of the video games within the native markets of the competing groups. Video games which might be streamed or on cable should be made out there through native over-the-air tv within the cities of the groups which might be enjoying, the NFL insists.
“CBS has constantly confirmed itself to be a best-in-class accomplice,” Brandon Riegg, Netflix’s vp of nonfiction sequence and sports activities, stated in an announcement.
Netflix’s contract with the NFL is for Christmas video games over the subsequent three seasons. This yr, the video games are a matchup between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and Pittsburgh Steelers, adopted by a sport between the Baltimore Ravens and Houston Texans.
It has but to be introduced whether or not Netflix will carry one or a number of video games within the 2025 and 2026 seasons.
