Cable operators balking at NFL Network
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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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The NFL's ability to negotiate exclusive sports packages is under fire from the outgoing chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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NEW YORK - The worst fears of the NFL&#39;s network partners were realized when FCC boss Michael Powell said he is sticking his beak into this Terrell Owens/Nicollette Sheridan &quot;Monday Night Football&quot; controversy.
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The National Football League plans to broadcast Thursday and Saturday games live over the Internet to some customers of Verizon Communications Inc. and DirecTV Group Inc, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said on Wednesday.
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Tired of steadily increasing sports programming charges, cable has booted the NFL Network.
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CableÂs two hungry rivals Â phone companies and satellite providers Â are stealing cableÂs disgruntled customers with cheaper all-in-one packages that bundle TV with Internet and phone services.
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Variety - NEW YORK -- News Corp. is planning a sports cable network to take on ESPN, but the decision to greenlight the net will hinge on negotiations currently under way with the NFL.
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Viewers in the Washington area will be shut out of the Ravens' game against the Bengals in Cincinnati because of a stalemate between the NFL and cable companies over the NFL Network.
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The National Football League will let  broadcast networks CBS and NBC air the New England Patriots'  bid to finish a perfect regular season this weekend, reversing  a plan to air the game nationally only on the sports league's  own cable channel.
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The networkâs coverage of Super Bowl Sunday and Super Duper Tuesday will meld.
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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 N.F.L. is learning how much easier it is to sell TV rights to networks than it is to operate its own cable network.
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Since just before the start of the NFL&#39;s regular season two months ago, television viewers in the Bay Area have been seeing commercials for a product that for years has sold itself.
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With the Redskins hosting the Ravens, and the Nationals and Orioles both playing night games, the Washington-Baltimore region has more sporting events tonight than its television networks can handle.
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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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By Alan Pergament  Since Time Warner kicked The NFL Network off its local cable systems, I've received my share of e-mails.
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Darren Sharper is upset about the NFL's crackdown on pass interference.