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NFL, CBS Extend Broadcast Deal Through 2013-14

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...

Published Tue, May 19 2009 4:53 PM by News

Filed under: Broadcast, Cable, NFL, NFL Network, CBS, Comcast, Super Bowl, American Football Conference

Comcast, NFL Bury Hatchet; Cable Co. to Carry NFL Network

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...

Published Tue, May 19 2009 9:45 AM by News

Filed under: Cable, NFL, NFL Network, Comcast, Sports TV

Dish Network, NFL Network End Carriage Dispute

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...

Published Fri, Apr 10 2009 2:17 PM by News

Filed under: Cable, NFL Network, Dish Network, Comcast

NFL, DirecTV Extend Deals

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...

Published Mon, Mar 23 2009 6:31 PM by News

Filed under: Cable, NFL, NFL Network, DirecTV

FCC’s Media Bureau Takes Lead on NFL Net Complaint

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...

Published Wed, Dec 31 2008 2:54 PM by News

Filed under: Cable, NFL Network, FCC, Comcast, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks, Mid-Atlantic Sports Network, WealthTV, Media Bureau

Waxman, Rockefeller Urge Martin to Focus on DTV Transition

The incoming chairmen of the Senate and House committees that oversee the Federal Communications Commission are urging its chairman, Kevin Martin, to devote his remaining days to the digital TV transition and to postpone FCC action on several controversial...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2008 12:26 PM by News

Filed under: Broadcast, Digital, DTV, NFL Network, FCC, Kevin Martin, Mid-Atlantic Sports Network, Henry Waxman, Jay Rockefeller, House Energy & Commerce Committee, WealthTV Network

FCC’s Martin Puts Channel Discrimination on Agenda for Dec. 18 Meeting

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is proposing the agency speed its response to independent networks’ complaints that satellite and cable providers treat their owned channels and independent ones differently. Such discrimination...

Published Wed, Dec 3 2008 1:48 PM by News

Filed under: Broadcast, DTV, NFL, NFL Network, Barack Obama, FCC, Kevin Martin, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox, Bright House Networks, Mid-Atlantic Sports Network, WealthTV Network

NFL Network Gets Ready to Rumble

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...

Published Sun, Nov 2 2008 10:30 PM by News

Filed under: Cable, NFL Network, Print Edition

NFL Blames Cable Operators as Senators Criticize Games’ Limited Availability

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...

Published Wed, Oct 29 2008 4:49 PM by News

Filed under: Cable, NFL, NFL Network, Comcast, Time Warner, Senate

FCC Orders Hearings on NFL Network, Bright House, WealthTV Complaints

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...

Published Sat, Oct 11 2008 11:25 AM by News

Filed under: Cable, NFL Network, FCC, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Mid-Atlantic Sports Network, Bright House, WealthTV

It’s ‘GameDay Morning’ at NFL Network

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...

Published Wed, Aug 27 2008 2:49 PM by News

Filed under: Cable, NFL Network, Warren Sapp, NFL GameDay Morning

NFL Amps Up Action on TV

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...

Published Sun, Aug 24 2008 11:47 PM by News

Filed under: Broadcast, Cable, Fox, NFL Network, CBS, NBC, Print Edition

Verizon, NFL Network Partner for ‘Extra’ Content

Verizon and NFL Network are teaming to bring NFL Network Game Extra to Verizon’s video and wireline broadband customers beginning Aug. 17. Viewers will be able to watch live, online broadcasts of NFL Network pre-season and Thursday Night Football games...

Published Fri, Aug 15 2008 3:27 PM by News

Filed under: Digital, NFL Network, Verizon, NFL Network Game Extra

NFL Net Airs Favre’s Jets Debut Wide

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...

Published Mon, Aug 11 2008 12:46 PM by News

Filed under: Cable, NFL Network, Brett Favre

NFL Network Adds Irvin to Hall of Fame Coverage

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...

Published Mon, Jul 21 2008 1:10 PM by News

Filed under: Cable, NFL Network, Michael Irvin, Hall of Fame

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