The National Football League is creating its personal streaming, in line with The . NFL officers reportedly confirmed off a service tentatively referred to as NFL+ to group house owners on the league’s annual offseason assembly in Florida this week. Among different content material, the service would come with video games and podcasts.

The Athletic experiences the platform probably received’t be prepared till group house owners meet once more in May. At that time, a vote would resolve whether or not the NFL strikes ahead with the mission. Potentially complicating the rollout of a subscription service is the state of the NFL’s numerous media offers.

, the NFL and Verizon prolonged their longstanding advertising and marketing and know-how partnership however did so with out agreeing on new phrases associated to cellular streaming. Up till , the service had unique rights to that content material. One analyst The Athletic spoke to advised the league may use NFL+ as a strategy to leverage a greater deal from both Verizon or one other cellular service. The league additionally just lately entered into an take care of Amazon for the retailer to hold Thursday Night Football video games by means of its Prime Video service.

We’ve reached out to the NFL for remark.