For second consecutive Year, TV Azteca runs out of the regular season NFL, which means that “Blitz“, from Televisa, is here to stay.
A couple of sources, one from each television station, confirmed this for me.
Even if TV Azteca He will also not have games from the first three stages of the postseason, he has signed a three-year contract with the NFL to transmit the Super Bowl.
A few days before the 2020 campaign, the news that TV Azteca would not have his “Ritual”, A controversial format that featured the best plays and scores from all Sunday noon games.
When they ran out of competition, in Televisa they chose to take over that format, under the name of “Blitz”.
In addition, Televisa (which also has a Sunday game at three in the afternoon) had, for the first time exclusively on open television, all the Playoffs games, something that it will surely also be able to boast in 2021.
Azteca could not come to an agreement with the NFL to broadcast professional football games and, according to the sources consulted, the television station has made the decision to forget about the regular season and keep only the Super Bowl, one of the events with the highest sales of the year.
The hole that he left Azteca It was also used by izzi, who as of last year broadcasts a match of the NFL Sundays at 12 noon. The agreement, they tell me, is for four years with the option of extending it to five seasons.
So forget about the “Ritual” and get used to “Blitz”.
Outside the United States, Mexico is, according to data from Global Web Index, the country with the largest number of NFL fans, with 23.3 million, of which 10 percent are considered “avid.”
Not even Canada (7.2 million) has that many fans of the NFL What Mexico.
The first Sunday in February is not just a holiday for Americans. In early 2020, the Super Bowl among the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers was seen by more than 12 million people in Mexico, roughly ten percent of the country’s total population, according to Statista.com.
Currently, three networks broadcast up to eight games a week of NFL: ESPN, Fox Sports and Televisa.
When it comes to the Super Bowl, they are added TV Azteca.
