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Is anyone else not surprised that the NFL, an industry that can't even get broadcast television down correctly, and seemingly refuses to go outside of it's little bubble distributors and programs that cost entirely too much isn't involved in these negotiations?

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The NFL's TV deals are arguably fan unfriendly. But satisfaction probably isn't high on the NFL's list of success metrics. The deals are successful in that they're very lucrative.

I don't know if I'd blame the NFL if it thinks there's little value in addressing the common complaints about its TV coverage.

CBS, NBC, Fox & ESPN are paying a combined $20.4B to broadcast games [1], DirecTV another $700M. I'm not really surprised they aren't interested here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_on_television

I'm not. The NFL schedule is very different from the other major American sports and is incredibly lucrative for all parties currently. No need to rock the boat from their perspective.

NBC actually does broadcast Sunday Night Football on its site for free, at surprisingly decent quality. I do wonder what allows NBC to do that but prevents other broadcasts from being made available, though.

the NFL screwed themselves with their contract with DirecTV (NFL Network & Sunday ticket) they effectively handed over all broadcast rights to (out of market/streaming) DirecTV (aside from NBC's Sunday Night Football broadcast)

NFL games are streamed via a free DirecTV app. But you need the $400+ Sunday Ticket package from them...

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