DirecTV to pay $1.5 bln a year for NFL Sunday Ticket - source
October 01, 2014 at 17:23 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES, Oct 1 (Reuters) - DirecTV will pay the National Football League an average of $1.5 billion a year over eight years for exclusive rights to sell its Sunday Ticket package of weekly games, a source familiar with the agreement said on Wednesday. (Reporting by Lisa Richwine; Editing by Chris Reese)