NFL: Facebook aiming to live stream a game on Thursday nights, from the 2016-17 season

Facebook is set to stream one NFL game on Thursday nights, confirmed Dan Rose, vice-president of the social network, to the US magazine Variety, on 07/03/2016.

The NFL is expected to schedule two additional "Thursday Night Football" matches from 2016-17 (increasing from 16 to 18 matches), so that they can be broadcast via live streaming. "The NFL is talks with potential partners for the allocation of the digital streaming rights for Thursday Night Football. The announcement of an agreement is expected soon," stated the US American football league on 01/02/2016.

"We are eager to grow alongside a digital partner for what will be a unique distribution model on three platforms: TV, digital cable and media," stated Roger Goodell, commissioner of the NFL, on 01/02/2016.

"We'll see if Facebook wins the bidding war," said Dan Rose, on 03/07/2016 to Variety magazine. "There's a lot of interesting things we can do with sports. If you think about how people engage on Facebook today, it's not really around watching three hours of video. We're talking to a lot of folks about live (streaming)…