If you’re buying NFL Sunday Ticket to watch the Lions on Thanksgiving, save your money. The Bears–Lions game is on CBS at 1 p.m. Eastern on Nov. 26. But if you spend Sundays looking for an out-of-town team that your local stations rarely carry, YouTube’s new Thanksgiving sale brings the rest-of-season pass down to $48 for new Sunday Ticket subscribers and $62 for returning subscribers through Nov. 30.
Which Lions games are on local TV?
According to the NFL’s Lions schedule, Detroit’s next three games are all on broadcast TV. The channel numbers below are for the Grand Rapids–Kalamazoo market, where reception depends on your address.
- Sunday, Nov. 15 at 9:30 a.m. New England vs. Detroit in Munich on FOX 17 (17.1). See our guide to this weekend’s Detroit games for the antenna and streaming options.
- Sunday, Nov. 22 at 1 p.m. Tampa Bay at Detroit on FOX 17 (17.1). Check your local listings closer to kickoff.
- Thursday, Nov. 26 at 1 p.m. Chicago at Detroit on WWMT CBS (3.1).
Try tuning to FOX and CBS on the TV you’ll actually use for the game. If you’re checking a setup for the first time, Transition TV’s ZIP code lookup can show which local channels are estimated at your location.
What the sale actually buys
Sunday Ticket covers out-of-market Sunday afternoon regular-season games carried by CBS and FOX. A game that’s already airing on your local station falls outside the pass. National broadcasts, Thanksgiving games and playoffs are outside it too. Before paying, pick the team or matchups you want and check where those games are listed.
You can buy the pass on its own through YouTube Primetime Channels. If you add it to YouTube TV, the TV plan costs extra and needs to stay active to use the add-on. Open the offer in a web browser and confirm the total before checking out. YouTube lists four payments of $12 or $15.50 where installments are offered. Those payments commit you to the full pass price. The pass also renews next season at the standard price unless you turn off renewal.
Offer terms and schedules checked November 14, 2026.
