Super Bowl LXI is the planned

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championship game of the

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(NFL) for the 2026 season. The game is scheduled to be played on February 14, 2027, at

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in Inglewood, California. This would be the ninth Super Bowl hosted by the

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area, and the second at this venue, the first being Super Bowl LVI in 2022. The game is planned to be nationally televised by

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and

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, marking the first Super Bowl simulcast between the two sister networks, the first time ABC has aired the Super Bowl since

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(21 years earlier), and the first time that

has aired the Super Bowl. There is also the option for Disney Channel and/or

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to produce an alternate telecast similar to Nickelodeon's

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Background

Host selection

The league has made all decisions regarding hosting sites from

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(held in February 2023) onward. There is no bidding process per site: the league selects a potential venue unilaterally, the chosen team puts together a hosting proposal, and then the league votes to determine whether it is acceptable. On December 13, 2023, the NFL announced that

, home of both the Los Angeles Rams and the

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, was selected as the Super Bowl site.

Broadcasting

United States

Television

Super Bowl LXI will be televised nationally by

and simulcast on

as part of the 11-year NFL television contract, which allows a four-year rotation between

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and ABC/ESPN. This would mark the first time ABC has aired the Super Bowl since

, and the first time ever that

has aired the Super Bowl. When ESPN took over the ''

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'' package from ABC in 2006, the NFL was reluctant to give the cable network any broadcasting rights to the Super Bowl or any playoff games. ESPN was then given the rights to air a first-round Wild Card playoff game on the channel after the conclusion of the 2014 season. The cable-only playoff game experiment would only last one season, and ABC would start simulcasting ESPN's Wild Card playoff game in the 2015 season. But the NFL refrained from having an ABC/ESPN simulcast of the Super Bowl until Super Bowl LXI. It is expected that

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will air a Spanish-language feed of the game. There is also the option for one of or both of Disney Channel and

, two children's channels operated by The Walt Disney Company, to carry an kid-focused alternate broadcast of Super Bowl LXI in a similar way to

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's simulcast of

. Disney XD has simulcasted the

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(both under its original guise and the Pro Bowl Games format) alongside ABC and ESPN since 2019 and

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and ESPN+, two of The Walt Disney Company's streaming services, aired a kid-focused alternative broadcast of an NFL regular season game themed around the ''Toy Story'' franchise in 2023 known as "''Toy Story'' Funday Football". In addition, Disney Channel, Disney XD, Disney+ and ESPN+ have aired alternate broadcasts of

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games themed around the Disney animated series ''

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'' and Disney XD has aired

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esports matches during the OWL's run as part of its short-lived ''D, XP'' block.

Streaming

The game is planned to be streamed live on ESPN+, as well as

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via mobile devices.

Radio

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holds the national radio rights to the game.

International

*In the

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and

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, the game will be televised on the free-to-air channel TBC *In

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, the game will be televised by

and its streaming and on-demand platform

. *In

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and

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, the game will be televised by TBC

References

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