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Will NFL Media & ESPN Ever Tie the Knot?

The league’s three-year attempt to unload the entity, which controls the NFL Network and RedZone, is the latest casualty of the declining cable business.

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Multiple sources told me that the NFL appears to be no closer to selling some of its media assets today than it was at the start of this process in 2021. Photo: Harry How/Getty Images
John Ourand
September 6, 2024

It’s very hard, if not impossible, to spare any pity for the indomitable NFL, which kicks off the 2024-25 season tonight with the league seemingly as strong as ever. The only lingering anxieties that seem to dot the landscape, such as they are, pertain to whether the presidential election will slightly decrease ratings and whether the NBA’s recent boffo media rights negotiation suggest that the NFL is undercompensated for its 11-year, $110 billion overall package and should exercise its out in five years. Quelle horreur!