NFL Network

NFL Network
A round table of an open-air announcers' booth
NFL Network studio at Super Bowl XLVIII (2014)
CountryUnited States
Broadcast area
  • United States
  • Canada
  • Latin America
  • Caribbean
  • Puerto Rico
  • Europe
  • Philippines
HeadquartersInglewood, California, U.S.
Programming
Language(s)English
Picture format1080i HDTV
(downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
OwnerNational Football League
Sister channelsNFL RedZone
History
LaunchedNovember 4, 2003 (2003-11-04)
Links
Websitewww.nfl.com/network

NFL Network (occasionally abbreviated on-air as NFLN) is an American sports-oriented pay television network owned by the National Football League (NFL) and is part of NFL Media, which also includes NFL.com, NFL Films, NFL Mobile, NFL Now and NFL RedZone. Dedicated to American football, the network features game telecasts from the NFL, as well as NFL-related content including analysis programs, specials and documentaries. The network is headquartered in the NFL Los Angeles building located next to SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, and broadcasts its worldwide feed from Encompass Digital Media (formally Crawford Communications) in Atlanta, Georgia.[1] The network has secondary East Coast facilities in the NFL Films building in Mount Laurel, New Jersey.

As of February 2015, NFL Network was available to approximately 71.9 million television households in the United States (totaling 61.7% of U.S. households with at least one television set).[2] As of June 2023, the channel was available in 51.5 million homes as cord cutting continues to affect the industry.[3]

  1. ^ Crawford distributes NFL Network via satellite services Broadcast Engineering November 28, 2008
  2. ^ Seidman, Robert (February 22, 2015). "List of how many homes each cable network is in as of February 2015". TV by the Numbers. Zap2it. Archived from the original on February 23, 2015. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
  3. ^ Robert Seidman (June 4, 2023). "How many homes the sports networks are available in". Internet Compost.