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Report: NFL inches closer to deal with YouTube for Week 1 TV rights

The deal would allow YouTube to distribute, around the world and for free, the Week 1 game played on Friday in Brazil; YouTube TV subscribers would also have access to the game.

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May 09, 2025
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A version of this story first appeared on The Desk.

The National Football League (NFL) is weighing the idea of giving YouTube the exclusive streaming rights to a rare Friday football game during the league’s opening weekend later this year.

The game would stream during Week 1, the opening week for football, according to a report from the New York Times, which said YouTube “has emerged as the heavy favorite to stream its first exclusive NFL game on Friday of the opening week,” based on information provided by unnamed sources.

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