The streams will be available on laptops, desktops and tablets at CBSSports.com and on televisions via select connected TV devices. DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket subscribers can watch the CBS and Fox Sunday afternoon games online on computers, mobiles and tablets.
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You won’t need a cable subscription credential to access those feeds, which is great news for cord-cutters. CBS and Yahoo’s respective streamed games are free.
CBS Sports will live stream two regular season games and its four AFC playoff games, another sign of how the league, and its major media partners, are exploring the wide world of streaming.
This could be the start of the floodgates being split wide open for the prospects of more NFL games being streamed for free online in the future. Last season it also debuted NFL Now, an ambitious new app with behind-the-scenes video, interviews, highlights, and features-but not live game video.
Watching football games on TV is so 2010. And Yahoo is offering up an unauthenticated stream of the October 25 game in London between the Buffalo Bills and Jacksonville Jaguars. And viewers can watch on various set top TV devices including Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku and Xbox One. CBS Sports will also stream Carolina-Dallas (Nov. 26, 4:30pm ET), which will mark the first time the CBS Sports broadcast of a Thanksgiving Day game is streamed live. Other media companies and pay-TV operators are paying even more for rights to show NFL games.
In the past the only regular season games available online without authentication in recent years have been the first game of the season on NBC.
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