As the NFL embarks on an effort to renegotiate its various full-season TV packages, the league continues to shop a five-game package of games to be televised during the 2026 season.
Per a source with knowledge of the situation, YouTube, Netflix, and Fox are in play for the five-game mini-slate.
As we understand it, the NFL has presented a menu consisting of more than five potential games, with the bidders having the ability to pick the five specific games they want.
The options are believed to include the Week 1 game in Australia, a Thanksgiving eve game (which is not official but apparently inevitable), a second Black Friday game, and a Christmas Eve game, among others.
Fox’s interest surely arises from the fact that the company is owned by Australia native Rupert Murdoch. Complicating those negotiations, as a practical matter, will be the current attack by the federal government on the NFL from an antitrust standpoint — especially since Murdoch’s _Wall Street Journal_ has [joined in the P.R. effort](https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/rupert-murdochs-wall-street-journal-takes-aim-at-nfls-antitrust-exemption) regarding the league’s antitrust exemption.
That said, the NFL may benefit politically from keeping the five games of the mini-package on broadcast TV (or, in the alternative, as a free stream on YouTube). At a time when the league’s ongoing pivot to streaming has sparked intense scrutiny, the news of five standalone games landing behind a paywall could be problematic.