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NFL Sunday Ticket is an Out-of-Market Sports Package that broadcasts National Football League regular season games unavailable on local affiliates. It carries all regional games produced by FOX and CBS. The ideal customer of this package is presumed (based on advertisements) to be a fan of a team who is unable to see their team on local television because they do not reside in that team's market. The package is available in the United States exclusively on DirecTV, in Canada on several cable providers, in Mexico and Latin America on Sky TV, and several cable providers in the Bahamas and Bermuda.

The commercial for the NFL Sunday Ticket used the tune from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory's song, I've Got a Golden Ticket, with major NFL Stars marching down the "ideal customer's" street.

Currently, American satellite provider DIRECTV has an exclusive deal with the NFL, making them the sole provider of NFL Sunday Ticket in the United States until the contract expires at the end of the 2010 season. [1] Prior to the NFL's latest television deal, other satellite and cable providers were allowed to bid on the rights to carry NFL Sunday Ticket if they agreed to carry the NFL Network. However, DIRECTV still won exclusivity for the package, bidding over $700 million a year to do so.

Since the launch of new satellites, DIRECTV no longer drops other HD feeds to broadcast the NFL Sunday Ticket games in HD. It is rumored that some of NewsCorp's foreign satellite companies, such as BSkyB, may offer NFL Sunday Ticket within the next couple of years. However, given the fact that NewsCorp sold its 40% share of DIRECTV to Liberty Media in February of 2008[1], this seems increasingly unlikely.