Fox Gets TV Rights To NFL’s Thursday Night Football

The NFL and Fox have agreed to a five-year deal to broadcast Thursday Night Football and for Fox to broadcast 11 games each season from Week 4 to Week 15.

BY DIGIT AL

Jan 31, 2018, 12:00 AM Updated: Jan 4, 2019, 11:23 am

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The NFL and Fox have agreed to a five-year deal to broadcast Thursday Night Football, per Bleacher Report.

The NFL announced their move on Wednesday and it was noted that Fox will pay the league an average of $1.75 billion each year for Thursday night and the NFC packages from now until the 2022 season.

Both parties agreed that Fox will broadcast 11 games each season from Week 4 to Week 15.

Sports Business Journal‘s John Ourand originally reported Fox will pay $550M annually throughout the five-years to carry 11 games per season.

In 2017 Amazon paid the NFL $50M to stream Thursday Night Football after Twitter earned the digital rights for $40M in 2016.

Fox had competition with NBC and CBS but after NFL ratings went down 9.7 percent this past season, they weren’t as enthusiastic to place a bid.

Fox has yet to announce which broadcasters will call the TNF games.