An officially sourced NFL Thanksgiving Week 2026 guide with five games, exact ET kickoffs, U.S. outlets, local conversions and viewing limits.

By WhatTimeIsIt.blog Editorial Team. Last verified 2026-11-02. This independent guide is not affiliated with the NFL, NCAA, any team, or any broadcaster.

NFL Thanksgiving Week 2026: Five-Game U.S. Viewing Guide

Quick answer

The official U.S. Thanksgiving-week slate has five games across Thanksgiving Eve, Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday. The NFL’s published times are Eastern Time (ET). The outlets below are the official listings reviewed for this guide; availability can vary by location, service, device and subscription.

Date	Game	Venue	Kickoff	Officially listed U.S. outlets
Wednesday, November 25	Green Bay Packers at Los Angeles Rams	SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, California	8:00 p.m. ET / 5:00 p.m. PT	Netflix
Thursday, November 26	Chicago Bears at Detroit Lions	Ford Field, Detroit, Michigan	1:00 p.m. ET	CBS, Paramount+, NFL+
Thursday, November 26	Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas Cowboys	AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas	4:30 p.m. ET / 3:30 p.m. CT	FOX, FOX One, NFL+, Tubi, FOX Deportes
Thursday, November 26	Kansas City Chiefs at Buffalo Bills	Highmark Stadium, Orchard Park, New York	8:20 p.m. ET	NBC, Peacock, NFL+
Friday, November 27	Denver Broncos at Pittsburgh Steelers	Acrisure Stadium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	3:00 p.m. ET in the NFL schedule; Amazon currently displays 1:30 p.m. EST — recheck	Prime Video

The five games, dates, venues, ET kickoffs and principal U.S. outlets are not TBD in the official NFL Week 12 schedule reviewed. Country-by-country rights outside the United States, local affiliate assignments, blackouts, exact NFL+ eligibility, current prices and some device or language details remain TBD unless an official source specifically confirms them.

Independence note: This is an independent viewing guide and is not affiliated with the NCAA, any conference, team, or broadcaster.

Scope and last verified

This guide covers the five-game U.S. Thanksgiving-week slate announced in the official NFL schedule and related broadcaster pages. It includes Thanksgiving Eve on Wednesday, November 25; Thanksgiving Day on Thursday, November 26; and Black Friday on Friday, November 27. It does not attempt to create a complete international carriage map or to promise access in a particular city, country, household, device or subscription tier.

The official pages were checked on November 2, 2026, Eastern Time. Because streaming rights, local feeds, service terms and listings can be location-dependent, use the NFL’s Week 12 Ways to Watch page as the location-personalized starting point, then confirm the relevant service or local listing before kickoff. The official pages reviewed publish the schedule in ET rather than UTC; the local-time notes below are derived from the published kickoff times and stadium locations.

The five games at a glance

Thanksgiving Eve: Packers at Rams

Green Bay visits the Los Angeles Rams on Wednesday, November 25, at 8:00 p.m. ET. The game is at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, which places the local stadium kickoff at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time. The schedule release describes it as the league’s inaugural Thanksgiving Eve game. The officially listed U.S. outlet is Netflix.

Netflix’s official Tudum announcement says its five 2026 NFL games are available in more than 200 countries and are also available on local over-the-air television in the respective team markets. That is a broad international statement, not a country-by-country station list. Do not infer that every viewer outside the United States has the same option, or that a particular local station carries the game, unless Netflix or the NFL’s location-personalized page confirms it.

Thanksgiving Day: Bears at Lions

Chicago plays Detroit on Thursday, November 26, at 1:00 p.m. ET at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. The official U.S. listings are CBS, Paramount+ and NFL+.

For Paramount+, the broadcaster says subscribers can stream games carried by their local CBS station, and that feeds vary by market. That makes the service a useful route to check, but not a universal guarantee that the same stream appears for every subscriber. The NFL’s listing is the controlling evidence for this game’s matchup, kickoff and listed outlets.

Thanksgiving Day: Eagles at Cowboys

Philadelphia visits Dallas on Thursday, November 26, at 4:30 p.m. ET. The game is at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, with a local kickoff of 3:30 p.m. Central Time. The NFL lists FOX, FOX One and NFL+; a FOX Sports press release additionally confirms Tubi and FOX Deportes carriage.

FOX says FOX One is available through a subscription or TV-provider authentication. The same release describes Tubi as FOX’s ad-supported streaming service and confirms that it carries the live game. Those statements establish the announced presentation, but they do not establish that FOX services or the same feed are available in every country. For viewers outside the United States, check the NFL’s location-based guide rather than assuming the U.S. FOX listing applies.

Thanksgiving Day: Chiefs at Bills

Kansas City visits Buffalo on Thursday, November 26, at 8:20 p.m. ET at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York. The officially listed U.S. outlets are NBC, Peacock and NFL+. The corresponding UTC date crosses into Friday, November 27 at 01:20 UTC, but U.S. viewers should use the published ET time and their local conversion.

The official pages reviewed do not provide a 2026-specific Peacock price or a complete international rights map. Accordingly, this guide does not quote a price, identify a universal Peacock plan, or promise that the NBC stream is available in a particular territory.

Black Friday: Broncos at Steelers

Denver plays Pittsburgh on Friday, November 27, at 3:00 p.m. ET, or 8:00 p.m. UTC, at Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The official outlet is Prime Video. Amazon’s official listing identifies the game as a subscription stream, and the reviewed NFL and Prime Video materials confirm the Black Friday presentation.

The reviewed sources do not establish a complete territory-by-territory 2026 rights statement or whether a local over-the-air simulcast applies in every market. Prime Video viewers should therefore verify the game listing in their own location and account before the event.

Converting the published times to your local clock

The schedule is published in U.S. Eastern Time, and the November dates fall under Eastern Standard Time. For the U.S. locations named in the schedule, the useful local conversions are:

8:00 p.m. ET is 5:00 p.m. PT for the Packers–Rams game in Inglewood.

4:30 p.m. ET is 3:30 p.m. CT for the Eagles–Cowboys game in Arlington.

The Detroit, Orchard Park and Pittsburgh games are listed in ET, matching the time zone used for their stadium locations.

If you are outside the United States, do not rely on a mental conversion alone. The schedule includes games that cross the UTC date boundary: the Thursday night Chiefs–Bills kickoff is 01:20 UTC on November 27, even though it begins at 8:20 p.m. ET on November 26. The Broncos–Steelers UTC value remains conditional until the NFL/Amazon time conflict is resolved. The Broncos–Steelers UTC value remains conditional until the NFL/Amazon time conflict is resolved. The Broncos–Steelers UTC value remains conditional until the NFL/Amazon time conflict is resolved. The Broncos–Steelers UTC value remains conditional until the NFL/Amazon time conflict is resolved. The Broncos–Steelers UTC value remains conditional until the NFL/Amazon time conflict is resolved. Use a reliable time-zone converter or the local time shown by the NFL’s location-personalized Ways to Watch page, and check whether daylight-saving or regional rules affect your location. The official source record does not provide a country-by-country local-time table, so international local times beyond the confirmed U.S. conversions are not supplied here.

Legal viewing routes

Start with the NFL’s location-personalized guide

The NFL’s Ways to Watch page asks users to select where they live and which television or streaming services they use. It lists services and providers including NFL+, Sunday Ticket, FOX One, Peacock, Paramount+, Amazon Prime and Netflix. That location-and-service design matters: a network label in a national schedule should not be treated as a promise of identical access everywhere.

Use the named broadcaster or streamer for the listed game

For Packers–Rams, check Netflix first. Netflix’s official announcement is the source for its broad “over 200 countries” statement and for the local over-the-air note in the respective team markets. It does not enumerate every country or local station in the reviewed page.

For Bears–Lions, check a local CBS listing, Paramount+ and the NFL+ listing shown for your location. Paramount+ specifically ties live streaming to games carried by the viewer’s local CBS station, so confirm the feed rather than assuming every market receives the same one.

For Eagles–Cowboys, the confirmed routes are FOX, FOX One, Tubi and FOX Deportes, with NFL+ also listed in the NFL announcement. FOX One may require a subscription or TV-provider authentication. Tubi is the ad-supported FOX streaming service identified in the official FOX release.

For Chiefs–Bills, check NBC, Peacock and NFL+. The reviewed sources confirm those U.S. listings but do not give a complete 2026 international distribution list or a current Peacock price.

For Broncos–Steelers, check the Prime Video game listing. The official Amazon material identifies it as a subscription stream; the reviewed sources do not provide a full international rights map.

What not to assume

Do not use Sunday Ticket as the recommended route for this holiday slate. The reviewed Paramount+ explainer describes Sunday Ticket as a product for out-of-market Sunday games, not these Thanksgiving-week games. Likewise, do not infer access merely because an app is installed, a network is available in your country, or a household has a general subscription. The official pages reviewed leave some eligibility and territory questions unresolved.

Territory, device and subscription limits

The strongest confirmed international statement applies to Netflix: more than 200 countries, with the limitations described above. For FOX, NBC/Peacock, CBS/Paramount+, Prime Video and NFL+, the official pages checked do not provide a complete country-by-country 2026 map. A U.S. outlet list is therefore a U.S. listing, not a universal international guarantee.

The evidence also does not establish every device rule for NFL+, every market-specific eligibility condition, or every language and audio option. Those items are TBD where the official pages reviewed do not specify them. Current subscription prices are also TBD in this guide; no price should be inferred from a general subscription description. Before the game, check the service’s current official listing on the device you plan to use, confirm that the correct matchup appears, and verify any TV-provider authentication or local-feed requirement.

Local-market blackouts and affiliate assignments remain TBD in the reviewed sources. The fact that a game is carried nationally by CBS, FOX or NBC does not by itself identify the exact local channel or guarantee a particular stream in every market.

A practical pre-kickoff checklist

Confirm your location. Open the NFL’s Week 12 Ways to Watch page and select your country or market and available services.

Check the exact game listing. Match the date, teams and kickoff time; do not rely only on a generic app home screen.

Verify the local feed where required. Paramount+ access depends on the local CBS station for the game it carries; FOX One may require subscription or TV-provider authentication.

Check your device and account. Device eligibility, market restrictions and account requirements are not fully specified in the official pages checked, so verify them with the relevant official service.

Plan for the date boundary. Chiefs–Bills begins at 8:20 p.m. ET on Thursday but 01:20 UTC on Friday.

Avoid unauthorized streams. Use the official NFL, network, broadcaster or service listings. This guide does not provide betting information or unauthorized stream links.

What is confirmed, and what is TBD?

Confirmed: five games; the dates; venues; ET kickoffs; the local stadium conversions stated above; and the principal U.S. outlets listed by the NFL and, for Eagles–Cowboys, expanded by FOX Sports. The holiday listings reviewed are fixed in the official Week 12 schedule; the league’s general flexible-scheduling warning does not change these five confirmed holiday entries.

TBD or not fully specified in the official pages checked: country-by-country rights outside the U.S.; local-market blackouts; exact affiliate assignments; exact NFL+ device and market eligibility; current subscription prices; whether every listed service has the same language or audio options in every territory; and detailed Peacock/NBC or Prime Video international distribution. Treat those items as questions to verify, not facts to fill in.