YouTube angers fans with 'NFL Sunday Ticket' buffering issues – The Washington Post

YouTube agreed with the NFL on a multibillion dollar agreement for the league’s Sunday Ticket package in December 2022. (Patrick Semansky/AP)Fans who followed the NFL’s out-of-market game-day package from DirecTV to YouTube were angry Sunday when YouTube TV experienced issues streaming the nine games that kicked off at 1 p.m.The company acknowledged the problems and said it was “working on a fix.”If you’re experiencing buffering issues on YouTube our team is aware and working on a fix. YouTube TV or NFL Sunday Ticket may also be impacted. we’ll follow-up here once this has been resolved.— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) October 29, 2023 The issues persisted well into the second half of the games and seemed to justify concerns about how seamlessly the product would be able to move from a linear platform to a streaming service. YouTube became the home of out-of-market games on CBS and Fox when it reached agreement in December on a seven-year contract worth more than $2 billion per season.YouTube has had an official NFL channel since 2015 that grew to include channels for all 32 teams and 10 official league channels before it took over “Sunday Ticket” from DirecTV, which had carried the package since it began
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