Madden NFL 24 and DirecTV reached a "broad agreement" with regard to the Madden NFL 24 Sunday ticket package, which gives the cable company control of this sports bundle for the coming decade, according the Sports Business Journal Madden 24 Coins. The terms are still being worked out however, the new agreement is expected to integrate around the Madden NFL 24's TV contracts. The current deal between the league and ESPN lasts until 2021. Contracts for CBS, NBC and Fox extend until 2022.

In order to broadcast out-of-market games for customers who pay, DirecTV will pay an annual rights fee starting at $1.3 billion and growing to $1.4 billion in the coming decade.

DirecTV has been Madden NFL 24 Sunday Ticket's sole distributor for the past 20 years. The current contract for the package that includes a $1 billion annual fee, is set to expire at the end of the 2014 season and complete the deal over a period of four years.

There is a possibility that Madden NFL 24 and DirecTV have been discussing talks about an extension of their contract for a while. The Sports Business Journal notes that an official announcement isn't imminent with issues like control over digital rights still being discussed however, those issues are minimal in comparison to the totality of the contract.

The Madden NFL 24 offered a variety of potential buyers for the Sunday Ticket but none of them were quite as serious as DirecTV. Even though the package remains a prized commodity -- at present Buy Mut 24 Coins, there are two million users paying anywhere from $239.94 to $329.94 Cable companies have claimed that the presence of the frenetic Madden NFL 24 RedZone Channel on sports packages makes Sunday tickets less popular.