in 2004; Live Thursday Night Football games are blacked out on the feed distributed in Canada to protect local rightsholders TSN and CTV 2. NFL Network is also offered as part of DAZN's NFL Game Pass service as of 2017. United Kingdom It was reported that the network would be made available in the United Kingdom in 2008. The agreement marks the 25th anniversary of live NFL coverage on Sky Sports and will see ‘Sky Sports NFL’ launching from September 3 ahead of the 2020 season, which kicks off on September 10. Germany Since the 2017 season, NFL Network is a part of the IPTV subscription service DAZN, which also offers NFL RedZone to German viewers. Brazil NFL Network is available on NFL GamePass Free Tier. NFL RedZone is available on the Pro Tier. Carriage and distribution complications The launch of the Thursday Night Football package led NFL Network to increasingly insist on carriage on lower subscription tiers of television providers; in particular, demanding carriage on a basic package and a carriage fee of $0.61 per subscriber. Time Warner Cable and other major cable providers wished to place it on a sports tier. Cable companies felt that a channel with such marginal interest, few live games, and filler programming, would be tough to sell outside of the football season. In February 2008, The Wall Street Journal reported that the NFL had been in discussion with Disney executives over the possibility of partnering with ESPN to bolster NFL Network; one analyst suggested the possibility of NFL Network being combined into its lesser-viewed, but better-carried ESPN Classic channel. 2006 free preview NFL Network offered a free preview from December 24 to 30, 2006 to Suddenlink Communications systems in West Texas, and to Time Warner Cable and Cablevision systems in the New York City area. The package included the Texas Bowl and Insight Bowl, but excluded that week's NFL game between the New York Giants and Washington Redskins (which was already scheduled to air on a local broadcast station under existing NFL policy). However, Time Warner Cable and Cablevision were only interested in showing the Texas Bowl, which featured the Rutgers Scarlet Knights, who developed strong local appeal in 2006 and barely missed a berth in the Bowl Championship Series. The NFL denied that request and would only offer the free preview if Cablevision and/or Time Warner Cable made the entire preview week