Optimum and NFL Network Kick Off 2023 Football Season by Reaching Multi-Year Renewal Agreement
NFL Network and NFL RedZone Carriage Extended on Optimum TV lineups
NEW YORK (August 8, 2023) – Touchdown, Optimum TV customers! Optimum, a brand of Altice USA (NYSE: ATUS) today announced a multi-year renewal of its affiliation agreement with NFL Media that will extend its existing carriage of NFL Network and NFL RedZone on Optimum TV just in time for the start of the 2023 NFL Season. NFL Network will continue to be available in Optimum’s Select and Premier packages, with NFL RedZone available in Optimum’s Sports Package and Sports Plus Package offers*.
“Optimum is thrilled to have reached an agreement to continue bringing NFL Network and NFL RedZone to Optimum TV lineups through the signing of a new multi-year agreement,” said Leroy Williams, Chief Growth Officer at Optimum. “Optimum customers love sports and the NFL, and we’re excited to bring them more sports programming that they know and love throughout the entirety of the NFL season. We have a long-standing partnership with the NFL Network and NFL RedZone and are looking forward to what the 2023 season has in store for our favorite teams, players, and most importantly, our customers.”
“We are excited to extend our partnership with Optimum,” said Hans Schroeder, Executive Vice President of Media Distribution for the NFL. “Fans with Optimum TV will continue have the ability to watch NFL Network’s award-winning coverage of America’s most popular sport as well as access to our wildly popular NFL RedZone.”
With NFL Network, Optimum TV subscribers have access to year-round NFL content, including exclusive live preseason and regular season games, popular studio shows such as Good Morning Football, NFL GameDay Morning, and NFL Total Access and award-winning original series such as A Football Life, NFL 360 and America's Game.
With NFL RedZone, subscribers can tune in to watch host Scott Hanson deliver every touchdown from every game to fans on Sunday afternoons during the NFL regular season.
NFL content continues to be the most valuable in all of sports and entertainment. According to Nielsen, 185 million people tuned into the 2022 NFL regular season with an average of 16.7 million viewers watching per game. NFL games accounted for 88 of the 100 most-watched TV shows among all programming in 2022.
Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
For more on Optimum TV packages and channel lineups, customers can visit optimum.com/tv.
*Package names, availability, and lineups can vary by location.