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and the said Tuesday they have worked out an agreement that will make the available to a greater number of Comcast cable-television subscribers, and settles the legal disputes between them.

Under the agreement, Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA,CMCSK) will move the NFL Network from its Sports Entertainment Package, which has about 2 million subscribers and usually costs an additional $5 to $7 a month, to its Digital Classic Package, which two-thirds of its 17.3 million digital cable subscribers get, by Aug. 1.

The NFL had argued that putting its network in the sports tier unfairly limited the number of viewers the NFL Network could attract, and said the Comcast-owned sports network Versus was part of the Digital Classic package.

Comcast and the NFL didn’t reveal how much Comcast will pay for the network, but a source close to the negotiations said it’s about 40 cents per subscriber.

, according to the SportsBusiness Journal.

In addition to allowing Digital Classic customers to see the network without having to subscribe to the Sports Entertainment Package, the move will give customers on-demand access to NFL game highlights and replays, NFL Films material, interviews with players and coaches, highlights of their local team(s) and other programming.

Comcast also will be allowed to offer the when the NFL launches it. The channel will provide look-ins and real-time highlights of games as they are occurring. The NFL created it for cable operators to enable them to give their customers a way to look into games other than the ones being shown by their market’s TV stations without having to order NFL Sunday Ticket, which enables viewers to see any game not being shown on their market but is exclusively available on DirecTV.

The NFL and Comcast said they will immediately will immediately move to end their legal disputes, which are being waged before the Federal Communications Commission and in a New York state court.