{"id":10447,"date":"2020-08-13T10:05:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T14:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/sky-launch-sky-sports-nfl-channel\/"},"modified":"2020-08-13T10:05:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T14:05:41","slug":"sky-to-launch-sky-sports-nfl-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2020\/08\/13\/sky-to-launch-sky-sports-nfl-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky to Launch Sky Sports NFL Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sky and the NFL have agreed to a new five-year deal to broadcast the league&#8217;s games, and the two will launch a dedicated channel, Sky Sports NFL.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement marks the 25th anniversary of live NFL coverage on Sky Sports. It will see Sky Sports NFL launching from September 3, ahead of the 2020 season, which kicks off on September 10. The brand-new in-season channel will be the round-the-clock home of the NFL on television in the U.K. and Ireland from the regular season through to the playoffs, with Super Bowl LV live from Raymond James Stadium in Tampa on February 7.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSky Sports has been a fantastic broadcast partner for a quarter of a century,\u201d said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.\u202f \u201cThis new five-year agreement and the launch of a dedicated Sky Sports NFL channel will undoubtedly continue our rapid growth in the UK and Ireland. \u202fWe are excited that our expanded partnership with Sky will provide even more NFL content to our millions of UK and Irish fans.\u201d<br \/>\nStephen van Rooyen, Chief Executive Officer, Sky UK &amp; Europe said: \u201cWe are proud of our quarter-century partnership with the NFL and are hugely excited about launching a dedicated channel which will be a first for the NFL with an international broadcaster. Sky Sports NFL will allow us to take our customers even closer to the sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSky Sports has shown live NFL since 1995 and played a big role in growing the sport in the UK &amp; Ireland over the last 25 years. Now, as part of Comcast, we are excited about taking our partnership to a whole new level. Our viewers are passionate sports fans and we look forward to capturing the drama of NFL for another five years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sky and the NFL have agreed to a new five-year deal to broadcast the league&#8217;s games, and the two will launch a dedicated channel, Sky Sports NFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":10448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[886,91,2504],"class_list":["post-10447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-nfl","tag-sky","tag-sky-sports-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sky to Launch Sky Sports NFL Channel - TVEUROPE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2020\/08\/13\/sky-to-launch-sky-sports-nfl-channel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sky to Launch Sky Sports NFL Channel - 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