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NFL RedZone is an American sports television channel owned and operated by the NFL that launched on the 13th of September 2009. It airs on Sundays during the NFL regular season from 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern, providing whip-around coverage of all Sunday afternoon games and promising to show every touchdown from every game.
Scott Hanson hosts NFL RedZone. He signs on each Sunday at 12:45 p.m. Eastern and hosts the full seven-hour broadcast, which he has done without a restroom break for extended stretches, a feat he noted on Twitter on the 10th of December 2017.
NFL RedZone introduced its own commercial breaks at the start of the 2025 NFL season, ending its longstanding commercial-free format. The initial rollout limited breaks to four fifteen-second ads per broadcast, shown in a double-box format with game action still visible, and no breaks during actual red zone action.
ESPN, LLC owns the RedZone trademark and the channel's linear broadcast rights, as part of an agreement that took effect in January 2026 covering ESPN's acquisition of NFL Network. The NFL itself continues to own, operate, and produce the channel and holds its digital distribution rights.
NFL RedZone is available internationally as a direct simulcast of the American feed. In the United Kingdom it airs on Sky Sports Mix, in Canada on DAZN and TSN, in Germany and Italy on DAZN, and in Spain on Deportes por Movistar Plus+ starting in 2021.
The DirecTV Red Zone Channel was a separate, independently operated service included with DirecTV's NFL Sunday Ticket package and hosted by Andrew Siciliano. It ceased operations after its final broadcast on the 8th of January 2023, when YouTube purchased the Sunday Ticket rights and chose to distribute NFL RedZone directly rather than produce a competing version.