YouTube is taking over the NFL Sunday Ticket package [Updated]

Enlarge / SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 11: The San Francisco 49ers caller prima quarterback, Brock Purdy, celebrates during a blowout 35-7 triumph implicit the Tom Brady-led Buccaneers. (credit: Getty Images/Thearon W. Henderson)

Update: The woody is done. The NFL has announced YouTube volition beryllium the caller location of NFL Sunday Ticket. The woody starts with the 2023 NFL Season, which volition footwear disconnected sometime successful September.

The organisation is simply a spot of a surprise, here's what the NFL says:

Starting adjacent season, NFL Sunday Ticket volition beryllium disposable connected 2 of YouTube's increasing subscription businesses arsenic an add-on bundle connected YouTube TV and standalone a-la-carte connected YouTube Primetime Channels.

YouTube TV fundamentally replicates the acquisition of bundled cablegram TV channels, conscionable implicit the Internet, truthful a Sunday Ticket bundle connected apical of the $65-a-month work was expected. What's not expected is that you don't person to bargain YouTube TV astatine all; you tin conscionable bid Sunday Ticket (still for each 32 teams bundled together) without forking implicit wealth for the accustomed cablegram channels first. YouTube "Primetime Channels" is conscionable the YouTube.com storefront wherever you tin bargain oregon rent hollywood movies, and present Sunday Ticket volition amusement up arsenic an enactment there. So determination are options for cord cutters that privation to support the cablegram TV acquisition (YouTube TV) and an enactment for radical that conscionable privation football.