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The NFL and CBS have made an agreement to extend their American Football Conference broadcast deal for two years, through the 2013-14 season. The deal gives CBS broadcast rights to Super Bowl XLVII in the first year of the agreement. The NFL also announced a new deal with Comcast Corp. earlier today...
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Comcast Corp., the biggest U.S. cable company, and the National Football League ended a dispute over carriage of the NFL Network, meaning the channel will be carried on the operator's system. The deal settles all legal disputes over the matter and moves the NFL Network from Comcast's sports entertainment...
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Dish Network and NFL Network have reached a settlement in their carriage dispute. The settlement calls for a new multiyear carriage agreement. NFL Network will be carried in Dish Network’s Classic Silver 200 programming package. “We are very pleased that our NFL Network will continue to be distributed...
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The National Football League said it extended its exclusive deal with DirecTV for its Sunday Ticket package of out-of-market games through the 2014 season. DirecTV also extended its carriage of the NFL Network. Cable operators, who want a piece of the Sunday Ticket package, have resisted carrying the...
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The Media Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission is again stepping in to speed the resolution of a complaint that cable systems aren’t dealing fairly with an independent cable network, this time to the benefit of the NFL Network. The Media Bureau today withdrew from an administrative judge the...
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The NFL Network is ready for some football. After spending much of its energy battling cable operators for carriage, the NFL Network is hitting the sweet spots of its year this week, when it begins to air its slate of eight regular-season football games. GOAL-ORIENTED NFL Network is looking to rebuild...
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The National Football League is defending its decision to keep some of its games on its own NFL Network in the face of criticism from some U.S. senators. In a statement today, the NFL blamed cable system owners, not the league, for some fans’ inability to see some games. “Our television policy regarding...
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The Federal Communications Commission’s media bureau is giving the NFL Network, WealthTV and a Baltimore/Washington sports network a major victory in their battle for carriage on cable systems, saying there is sufficient evidence the channels are being discriminated against to justify administrative...
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NFL Network will kick off the NFL season with the premiere of “NFL GameDay Morning” on Sept. 7 at 10 a.m. ET. The two-hour show will feature host Spero Dedes and analysts Marshall Faulk and Warren Sapp, with correspondent Adam Schefter reporting from New York. NFL Network correspondent Alex Flanagan...
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New faces on some channels, fewer faces on others, and a whole lot more access to the action set the stage for the 2008-09 National Football League broadcast season as networks finalize plans for game coverage. Last year’s season saw record ratings for most of the networks, culminating with the most...
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NFL Network plans to televise Brett Favre’s first preseason game as a New York Jet nationally on Saturday, the network said. The network will be picking up the local feed of the game between the Jets and the Washington Redskins. The local feed will be broadcast in New York and Washington, but football...
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Michael Irvin has joined the NFL Network’s 45th Pro Football Hall of Fame induction ceremony coverage on Aug. 2. Irvin will be on-air alongside Fran Charles, Steve Mariucci and Adam Schefter for 7 hours of live, high-definition coverage from Canton, OH. Coverage will begin at 4 p.m. ET with NFL Total...
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The NFL Network announced plans to televise a record number of 54 preseason games in August, with 42 of them to be broadcast in high definition, up from the record 32 televised last season. The cable network is scheduled to air 52 of the 65 NFL preseason games that will be played over 26 days in August...