NFL+ offers game coverage for $4.99 a month.

Following suit with other companies and brands establishing their own streaming services, NFL has launched a streaming service of its own today, NFL+. A subscription to the service costs $4.99 monthly or $39.99 yearly, and offers live access to local and primetime postseason games. Additionally, subscribers will get access to out-of-market preseason games, a feature that was previously only available to the subscribers of the $100-a-year NFL Game Pass service.

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There are two catches to this. Firstly, subscribers can’t watch regular season games on NFL+, at least not at launch. NFL is planning on monitoring viewership habits of the service for a brief time, and if it becomes clear that customers want regular game coverage, they will provide it. Secondly, at launch, NFL+ is only available on mobile and tablet devices, with no app available on streaming boxes or smart TVs.

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“It’s another option we’ll consider with all of our other options,” Hans Schroeder, executive vice president and chief operating officer of NFL Media, said in a statement. “We are really excited about where NFL+ can go. As quickly as media and the sports distribution business continues to change and evolve, there are lots of different factors.”