Live Webcasts of NFL Preseason Games
Football fans who subscribe to video and wireline broadband services with
Verizon can enjoy the start of NFL Network Game Extra, as NFL Network
kicks off its coverage of NFL preseason games for which the live webcasts
will be available beginning August 17. With Verizon broadband connection,
users can find themselves in a virtual control booth having choice of
camera feeds, chat, game statistics, and highlights.
NFL
Network Game Extra, available to Verizon video and wireline broadband
subscribers, will enable them to watch live, online broadcasts of NFL
Network preseason and Thursday Night Football games while selecting from
among multiple camera feeds.
This is
the second year NFL Network has offered the service, which is made
possible through an agreement between Verizon and NFL Network. The service
is available online to Verizon subscribers through any broadband internet
connection.
Viewers
of the online broadcasts will have access to alternate camera angles and
live audio feeds and have the ability to view one of four camera angles,
or all four angles simultaneously.
Other
features include: live online chats with other NFL Network Game Extra
viewers during the live games; game statistics, highlights, and
drive-chart simulations during the games; on-demand video highlights of
the games; and special events, such as college bowl games and college
all-star games including the Insight Bowl, Texas Bowl, and Senior Bowl.
The NFL
Network Game Extra service is available to consumers who subscribe to
either Verizon FiOS or Verizon High Speed Internet service, plus either
Verizon FiOS TV or DIRECTV through Verizon.
NFL
Network Game Extra viewers will enjoy live, online broadcasts of two
preseason and eight regular-season, primetime Thursday Night Football
games, beginning with the matchup between the New England Patriots and the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sunday, Aug. 17.
Subscribers can view the series of online broadcasts anywhere in the world
through any broadband-connected computer. Local team's games can still be
viewed over the air, and local television blackout restrictions may
apply.
During
the 2008 NFL season, all Verizon FiOS and Verizon High Speed Internet
subscribers can enjoy a variety of NFL-related and NFL Network
programming, including segments from such shows as "NFL Total Access,"
fantasy football game updates from NFL.com, and "Playbook," the definitive
show breaking down each week's match-ups, at verizon.net/nfl.
Verizon
provides NFL Network TV channel to subscribers of the company's
200-channel all-digital FiOS TV Premier - Verizon's standard TV package --
on channel 72 in standard definition and channel 828 in high definition.
To access
the new, online NFL Network programming and content, subscribers will log
on to their Verizon consumer broadband accounts and visit verizon.net/nfl.
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