How to watch NFL RedZone in 2025: Prices, carriers, start time

If you are a diehard NFL fan – and perhaps a fantasy football fanatic, too – you're going to want to line up NFL RedZone ahead of the first big Sunday of action.

NFL RedZone is a live channel that looks in on each Sunday's National Football League live games broadcast on CBS and Fox – you get seven hours of scores and plays in the red zone, the part of the football field between the 20-yard-line and end zone.

Scott Hanson, who will be hosting for his 16th year, coordinates all the action, which starts at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT and runs until about 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.

Especially compelling? The "witching hour," which transpires as the 1 p.m. games reach the end of the third quarter and beginning of the fourth quarter. If you are lucky, you may see up to eight games simultaneously via the famous "Octobox."

 "It’s the best hour of sports television," Hanson told USA TODAY in 2024.

You can see many games on broadcast TV or on pay-TV services including YouTube TV. But NFL RedZone is a must-have if you want to keep track of all the scoring plays during Sunday afternoon's games as they happen – and to help you see how your fantasy football team is doing in real-time.

One change this year: There will be commercials on NFL RedZone, which has been seven uninterrupted hours until now – the program's final season before ESPN, which acquired the channel from the NFL, takes over.

How to watch NFL RedZone

Most pay-TV services, from Fubo TV and Hulu to Xfinity, let you add NFL RedZone. Here's some two other ways to get the channel:

• NFL+ Premium: This streaming service ($14.99 monthly) gives you NFL RedZone and The NFL Network, as well as full, condensed game replays – all viewable on TVs, desktop, phones and tablets – and you can listen to live game audio for all games. You can also bundle ESPN's new direct-to-consumer streaming service ESPN Unlimited with NFL+ Premium for $39.99 (first subscribe to ESPN Unlimited, then you will get the NFL+ Premium bundle option).

• NFL Sunday Ticket: This program package, viewed on YouTube TV and YouTube, includes all of the Sunday out-of-market NFL games not broadcast on local TV stations. You can pair it with RedZone as an add-on.
  • NFL Sunday Ticket with RedZone on YouTube: Returning customers who subscribe on YouTube Primetime Channels and add NFL RedZone pay $522 or eight monthly payments of $65.25 (but you can get discounts). The price for newcomers who subscribe to NFL Sunday Ticket with NFL RedZone starts at $318 or eight monthly payments of $39.75. (There's also a month-to-month subscription option that starts at $155 monthly for returning subscribers and $95 monthly for new subscribers.)
  • NFL Sunday Ticket with RedZone on YouTube TV: Returning subscribers who already have YouTube TV pay $420 or $52.50 monthly, in addition to their YouTube TV subscription. Newcomers pay $318 or eight monthly payments of $39.75, plus the price of a YouTube TV account, discounted for new users at $49.99 per month for the first three months (a savings of $99), then $82.99 monthly thereafter. (There's also a month-to-month subscription option that starts at $125 monthly for returning subscribers and $95 monthly for new subscribers.)

Contributing: Chris Bumbaca and Ayrton Ostly.

Mike Snider is a national trending news reporter for USA TODAY. You can follow him on Threads, Bluesky, X and email him at  mikegsnider  &  @mikegsnider.bsky.social  &  @mikesnider & msnider@usatoday.com

What's everyone talking about? Sign up for our trending newsletter to get the latest news of the day