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NFL Network to Air Eight Games
Topic Started: Saturday Jan 28 2006, 01:47 PM (203 Views)
WeatherManNX01
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Report: NFL keeps late-season package for itself
ESPN.com news services


The NFL Network will carry eight regular-season games in 2006, the New York Times and other media outlets reported Saturday.

The league's network, which has only shown preseason games in the past, will carry eight Thursday and Saturday games, starting with the Washington Redskins vs. the Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving, the Times reported, citing a senior league official,

The NFL currently has television deals with CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN and DirecTV and had been negotiating with Comcast about the package that it will now show in its own network.

The games will also be shown by local broadcasters in the markets where they are being played. The NFL Network currently has about 36 million cable subscribers.
I wish I got the NFL Network.
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<_< Me too. Really stupid to put a Thanksgiving Day game on a channel that most people don't get - ratings for that game will plunge.
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PSUSyr5
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If they are going to show a THANKSGIVING game on NFL Network, I have a feeling not many people will see it on the basis of not many have NFLN.
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sre141
Jan 28 2006, 01:50 PM
If they are going to show a THANKSGIVING game on NFL Network, I have a feeling not many people will see it on the basis of not many have NFLN.

Yeah, I wonder how they pulled that one off. It makes no sense. :huh:
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PSUSyr5
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Seems like they'd be better served with showing one of those 1p.m. games that there are so many of. CBS shows the AFC game, FOX the NFC game, and then NFLN could call theirs the game of the week or something...idk.
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sre141
Jan 28 2006, 01:54 PM
Seems like they'd be better served with showing one of those 1p.m. games that there are so many of. CBS shows the AFC game, FOX the NFC game, and then NFLN could call theirs the game of the week or something...idk.

Yeah, something like that. There are always a slew of games that aren't on local networks. They should put a smaller market game on NFLN. I want to watch my Pats other than on Sunday and Monday nights. :(
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I'll be curious to see what the ratings are like for this one. There's a chance that I'll actually get to see the Skins-Cowboys game, depending on where Thanksgiving finds me.
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PSUSyr5
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I got a little bit more information on it. NFLN will air primetime games Thursdays and Saturdays.

Apparently NFLN is in about 40 million homes, so I guess it's an ok deal for them.
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