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The buffering points that Netflix customers skilled through the Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul boxing match on November 15 had been so extreme that the Nationwide Soccer League reached out to the streaming service for reassurances concerning the upcoming duo of NFL video games that will likely be streamed on the service on Christmas Day.
On Christmas Day — Tuesday, December 25 — Netflix will likely be streaming NFL video games between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and Pittsburgh Steelers, and the Baltimore Ravens versus the Houston Texans. They would be the first video games to ever be streamed on Netflix (the NFL has beforehand streamed Thursday Night time Soccer video games solely on Prime Video).
In line with Dan Graziano of ESPN, the NFL “checked in” with Netflix over the streaming points however apparently left the dialog feeling reassured.
“The buffering issues that Netflix had with the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul battle Friday raised some eyebrows across the league, for the reason that NFL is scheduled to broadcast two Christmas Day video games on Netflix this yr,” Graziano reported.
“The NFL did examine in with Netflix following the Tyson-Paul battle to ask concerning the issues and assess the chance that they may repeat themselves on Christmas… However the NFL got here away from the conversations reassured that Netflix had found out what went fallacious and that it received’t be an issue [on Christmas].”
In line with Graziano, Netflix instructed the NFL that a part of the difficulty was the sheer quantity of viewership because the 60 million properties that streamed that battle represented an “unprecedented scale for them of broadcasting a reside sporting and contributed to a few of the challenges they confronted.”
60 million households world wide tuned in reside to look at Paul vs. Tyson!
The boxing mega-event dominated social media, shattered information, and even had our buffering methods on the ropes. pic.twitter.com/kA8LjfAJSk
— Netflix (@netflix) November 16, 2024
With simply over a month till Netflix’s Christmas Day NFL video games, it seems like each the league and the streaming service are lucking out with the matches they’ve wound up with, actually when evaluating it to the upcoming Thanksgiving Day slate (Thursday, November 28), which options matchups between the Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions, New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys, and Miami Dolphins and Inexperienced Bay Packers.
