"This deal strengthens our NFL relationship as it includes expanded carriage of NFL Network and all the best action from Sunday’s games with NFL RedZone, which is now available to customers across all three DIRECTV platforms."
Bars and restaurants won't have to dump their DirecTV subscriptions.
"We’re always working to find the right tradeoff between latency, buffering and quality."
YouTube's NFL Sunday Ticket packages will start at $249 (for YouTube TV members who sign up before June 6), but many of them will be more expensive than the package was with DirecTV.
Individuals will need an Apple TV+ subscription to watch Friday Night Baseball this year. Or they can go to a bar with DirecTV.
"We welcome the addition of MLS Season Pass to an already market-leading lineup of sports properties."
If a deal isn't reached, Fox owned-and-operated local affiliates (plus FS1, FS2, BTN and more) could go dark for DirecTV/DirecTV Stream/Uverse customers on Friday.
DirecTV's NFL Sunday Ticket hit major issues in Week 1, and then hit them again in Week 2 for many.
Thursday Night Football will still be accessible in bars that have DirecTV
"We couldn’t be more pleased about adding DirecTV and DirecTV Stream to the list of providers for the Kraken and the Trail Blazers."
Disney has had interest in the NFL out-of-market package for ESPN+ since 2019
This move gives AT&T some cash to pay down debt, and may have other flexibility benefits for both AT&T and the new DirecTV entity.
Those with AT&T or DirecTV packages in Seattle, Dayton, Eureka and Yuma may need to find alternate ways to watch the Super Bowl Sunday.
This affects ABC, Fox, NBC and CBS stations, but the CBS stations in Seattle and Dayton may be particularly important for the Super Bowl.
AT&T may wind up not selling off all of DirecTV, but rather only a minority stake.
AT&T bought DirecTV for $49 billion in 2015, but may only get $20 billion for it now.
"The growth in TV is not coming from linear TV providers, but from huge programmers. You just can't swim upstream against a real tide of big players."
Many viewers reported experiencing prolonged sound outages and occasional picture blackouts on DirecTV's 4K feed of the Sugar Bowl.
Channels including ESPN, NBCSN and FS1 all weren't working in high definition for many DirecTV subscribers Saturday.
Altitude Sports is expected to be back on DirecTV Friday.
AT&T and DirecTV has Sunday Ticket until 2022.
This dispute could affect 136 local broadcast stations in 86 markets.
