NFL Plus streaming has live games for $4.99 per month — but not on your TV

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The National Football League has a mobile streaming service. The service is available in two different tiers, for a monthly fee or a yearly fee.

Live local or nationally broadcast regular and postseason games can be streamed on a mobile phone or tablet screen, but not on your TV. With your choice of home, away, or national broadcasters, you can listen to live game audio for all games. Ad-free full and abbreviated game replays, as well as access to Coaches Film, are included in the price of NFL Premium.

Earlier this month, the commissioner of the National Football League confirmed the existence of NFL Plus. The National Football League has allowed its customers to stream live games from their mobile devices, and later gave those rights to any mobile carrier. Out-of-market games were not included.

According to an interview with The Wall Street Journal, the league doesn't have a good idea of how many people will subscribe to the service. The long game is being played by the team. Establishing and learning relationships is the focus of this. We don't know if we can get 500,000 subscribers in the first 5 months.

The new subscription will no longer include Game Pass. Some of the same features, such as the ability to stream live and on-demand games, but also give users the option to stream from their TV or console, were offered by the service. If you want to watch all of the out-of-market games on your TV or mobile device, you will need to subscribe to an NFL Sunday Ticket.

At the end of this year's football season, the rights to Sunday Ticket will be given to another company. The NFL is working on a new deal for Sunday Ticket, according to the commissioner. The New York Times reported that the service would allow users to stream games from YouTube. Sources tell the Times that Apple is in the lead.

Streaming services are trying to get live sports deals. In November of last year, Amazon struck a deal with the National Football League to show Thursday Night Football. Apple TV Plus has a deal with the MLB to stream Friday Night Baseball.

Adding sports to streaming services can help lock in subscribers interested in sports and other content, something that could help other services compete with Disney's ESPN Plus, which recently announced a price increase. The rights to Major League Soccer and National Hockey League games will be exclusively streamed by the sports network. FuboTV has already dived into sports betting, after Disney CEO Bob Chapek mentioned integration of sports betting into Disney's cable channel. In June, FuboTV added a feature that lets users in Iowa and Arizona place cash-based bets, while viewers in other states can compete with friends to predict the outcome of a game.