NFL talks live sports with movie theaters
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The National Football League has had  discussions with National Amusements Inc. and other movie  theater chains about screening live sports in digitally  equipped theaters, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said on  Wednesday.
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The NFL could be diving deeper into the television business and playing a regular-season game outside the United States as early as next season.
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LOS ANGELES  - In a first for the U.S.   market, the struggling Mobile ESPN network is offering live and   complete football games for viewing on cell phones.
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LONDON -- The NFL's first regular-season game outside North America already looks like a big hit. More than 500,000 tickets were requested by about 160,000 fans in the three days following Friday's official announcement, the NFL said Wednesday.
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By SETH SUTEL  NEW YORK - The NFL Network has rejected two proposals from Time Warner Cable that would have allowed New York-area viewers to watch Rutgers and Kansas State in the Texas Bowl.  The NFL Network is carrying that Dec. 28 game, as well as the Dec.
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The NFL will air the first of eight live pro football games on its own network on Thanksgiving. But they won't be available to many viewers across the country because the league hasn't reached carriage agreements with several major cable operators.
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NEW YORK - The NFL agreed Monday to $8 billion in contract extensions with Fox and CBS to televise Sunday afternoon games for six more years, deals that would also allow the league to show better matchups late in the season in prime time.
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The NFL's next big thing could be a small, yellow television that rents for $39.95 and can be found in the hands of Washington Redskins fans this season at FedEx Field.
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The NFL's choice of where it will play  a regular season game outside the United States has been  narrowed down to five cities, one of which could be home to an  NFL franchise in the next 10 years, the football league's  commissioner said on Wednesday.
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CBS confirmed Thursday that it has been negotiating with the National Football League on a new TV rights deal.
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The National Football League wants to court women viewers as a major source of new growth, but is still working out the best strategy to attract them to a traditionally male-oriented competition, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said on Wednesday.
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NBC probably will not offer enough to  secure broadcast rights to National Football League games even  though it would be interested in carrying the widely watched  games, executives at corporate parent General Electric Co. said  on Tuesday.
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From Green Bay to New Orleans, from Pittsburgh to Jacksonville, players across the NFL yesterday reacted to the league's investigation of the Patriots' videotaping procedures in last Sunday's season opener against the Jets.
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Now if only the NFL can let players at the other 20 positions on the football field get involved. The league trading deadline was yesterday, and for the first time in five years, there actually were deals made. All three trades were for wide receivers.
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(InfoWorld) - On Feb. 5, at about 7 a.m. local time, I'll be watching the Super Bowl. For those of us living in foreign lands where football means a round ball, the NFL doesn't get primetime coverage. Despite growing up as an NFL fan, when I say "football" now to anyone except my mother, I'm talking about soccer. When I watch football on any given weekend, it's the glorious exploits of my beloved Arsenal Football Club I'm enjoying, not those of the New York Giants. During almost 11 years in China, I have slowly seen those vestiges of the U.S. unavailable here in Beijing disappear. The Internet changed the way we live overseas. Letters became e-mails. Amazon.com became the Berlin Airlift to the book-deprived, with CDs and DVDs following soon after. But regular National Football League coverage was one of just two remaining treats that eluded me. That changed on Sept. 13, 2006. On that day, I discovered Ben & Jerry's ice cream at my supermarket, for about $9 per pint. That morning, I watched an NFL game, live via the Internet, in my home. NFL Enterprises embraced the Internet for the 2006-07 season. Previously the NFL did not allow webcasting of its games, except for text and graphic-based commentary such as GameCast. But this year, international fans could buy a GamePass from YahooÂ to view games live and streamed, at either $249.99 for the season, or $24.99 per week. Apple's iTunes Music Store sold season passes for fans to watch their favorite teams, uploading each game after its completion. I took a different route. I downloaded TVUplayer , which seems to be a mass re-broadcast from a Slingbox MediaÂ device in San Jose, California. There was the NFL, complete with American sportscasters and commercials ("This is our country..."). I ignored that it was 8:30 a.m. and made popcorn. I don't understand how TVUplayer is legal, but if they ever become a paid service, they can have my money. ESPN and ABC disappeared midway through the season, so I lost the Sunday and Monday night games that I used to watch on Monday and Tuesday mornings, respectively, but Sunday night remained sleepless as I watched the day games. If living overseas teaches us anything, it's that in the Internet world, content distribution and licensing methods are grossly obsolete. I would have paid to watch the NFL live years ago -- but they wouldn't take my money. Cinema and DVD release dates seem equally ludicrous when you live in a market where they're meaningless. Piracy makes a lot more sense when you realize that the guy down the street can offer you "Casino Royale" on DVD today, but Hollywood thinks you should wait eight months. Next season promises to be even better for football fans here. On Aug. 8 -- exactly one year prior to the opening of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing -- China will host to its first-ever NFL exhibition game, with the New England Patriots playing the Seattle Seahawks. But when the regular season begins about three weeks later, it will be first down and 10 on the Internet.
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By Jeffrey Flanagan, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Sep. 15--T he battle rages on between the NFL Network and Time Warner Cable, and the loser for now is clear: Any football junkie with Time Warner Cable.
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The NFL agreed Monday to &#36;8 billion in contract extensions with Fox and CBS to televise Sunday afternoon games for six more years, deals that would also allow the league to show better matchups late in the season in prime time.