Streaming service Netflix is looking to add more NFL games to its offerings, eying an expansion from two to a four-game package.
Netflix is interested in adding the NFL’s new Thanksgiving Eve game and an international game, the Wall Street Journal reported, as the streamer looks to add on to its sports and live events options in an effort to retain and boost subscribers and advertising.
This is the final year of Netflix’s three-year deal with the NFL to carry games on Christmas.
The NFL is currently renegotiating its media rights deals with all its broadcast partners in the hopes of being able to create smaller broadcast packages of four or five games to offer to streamers such as Netflix.
The league had gotten back the rights to four games as part of the deal to sell NFL Network to ESPN and the first international game of the season, which the league has sold on its own, is also on the block to be added by a media broadcast partner.
According to the WSJ report, the NFL is remaining flexible so that the five games could potentially be up for grabs by more than one service.
YouTube and Amazon have expressed an interest in adding more games.
Netflix has added a slew of live sports programming, which has included boxing, WWE and Major League Baseball.
Netflix carried its first MLB game last week on opening night as part of a $50 million-a-year deal, which will also include coverage of the Home Run Derby and the Field of Dreams game.
The streamer’s first foray into baseball was not well-received by fans of the sport, as complaints came in about everything from the Netflix infomercial-esque feel of the pregame show to the scorebug on the broadcast during the Yankees’ 7-0 win over the Giants.
