The story behind YouTube’s NFL livestream

This year, shot play kicks disconnected with a twist: Following tonight's play opener, YouTube volition stream the NFL's archetypal Friday game of the play - a face-off betwixt the Los Angeles Chargers and the Kansas City Chiefs broadcast unrecorded from São Paulo, Brazil - for escaped to a planetary assemblage this Friday.

It's the archetypal clip YouTube has hosted specified a high-caliber US sports lawsuit successful beforehand of the paywall, and the Google-owned video work is pulling retired each the bells and whistles for the occasion. There volition beryllium drones. There volition beryllium implicit 50 cameras. Karol G volition execute the halftime show. And successful summation to unrecorded commentary from broadcast vetera …

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