NFL OKs 6-Year Extensions With Fox, CBS
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The NFL agreed Monday to contract extensions with Fox and CBS to televise Sunday afternoon games for six more years, deals worth a combined &#36;8 billion.
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What started as a complete long shot turned into a surprising reality last night when Patriots left tackle Matt Light agreed to a six-year contract extension worth $27 million.
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FOXBORO, Mass. (Sports Network) - The New England Patriots  Wednesday signed left tackle Matt Light to a six-year contract  extension. As per team policy, financial terms were not  released.
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The Bowl Championship Series has reached a four-year agreement with Fox Sports to televise the Fiesta, Sugar and Orange bowls from 2007-10, plus the national championship games from 2007-09, BCS director Kevin Weiberg announced Monday.
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Rookie quarterback Philip Rivers ended his lengthy holdout, agreeing to terms on a six-year contract with the San Diego Chargers last night.
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Chad Pennington agreed to a $64 million, seven-year contract extension with the New York Jets yesterday that includes $23 million in guaranteed money.
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The NFL Network yesterday spurned as a âgimmickâ Time Warner Cableâs proposal to offer the league-owned channelâs eight regular-season games on pay-per-view. Time Warner said the league could have set the price and collected the revenue from the service. Robert D. Marcus, a senior executive vice president of Time Warner Cable, wrote to the network saying that the proposal would guarantee that âno interested fan is unable to watch these games on our systems.â The network and Time Warner have been unable to reach an agreement for full-time coverage of the channel on digital basic. In a letter to Time Warner, Steve Bornstein, the president of the network, wrote, âUnfortunately, it seems that TWCâs content acquisition department cannot grasp that the NFL Network is more than eight games.â.
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Fox and CBS have agreed to pay $8 billion for new Sunday afternoon NFL packages, six-year extensions that start when the current deals expire after the 2005 season.
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High-definition television and the National Football League are going to be entwined this season. All ABC and ESPN games are scheduled to be broadcast in HD. Fox plans to do as many as six games each week in HD, and CBS will do three. And each Wednesday and Thursday at 9 p.m., the NFL Network will have a 60-minute condensed ...
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Television executives are lining up at the bargaining table for the rights to broadcast the expanded schedule of BCS games being contemplated, beginning in the 2006 season.
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New York, NY (Sports Network) - The National Football League agreed to six- year contract extensions with CBS and FOX to televise afternoon games on Sunday.
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Andy Reid received a four-year contract extension from the Philadelphia Eagles on Wednesday that will take him through the 2010 season.
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The San Diego Chargers and rookie quarterback Philip Rivers agreed to terms on a six-year contract, ending the first-round draft pick&#39;s three-week holdout.
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Tennessee Titans Coach Jeff Fisher agrees to a four-year contract extension with the team that runs through the 2011 season.
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By Mark McGuire, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Dec. 17--CBS dominated, NBC rebounded. The NFL Network starting showing live games, even though cable subscribers in this and many other markets can't get it.
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The Indianapolis Colts kept five-time Pro Bowl wide receiver Marvin Harrison off next spring&#39;s unrestricted free agent market by signing him to a seven-year, $66 million contract extension.
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KIRKLAND, Wash. -- Deion Branch eased the pain of nearly $600,000 in fines for his holdout in New England by signing a $39 million, six-year contract with the Seattle Seahawks on Tuesday.