NFL agrees to extensions with CBS and FOX
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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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CBS and Fox will continue to televise NFL games on Sunday afternoons through the 2011 season. The price tag for the six-year deal: $8 billion, 25 percent and 30 percent higher than the previous eight-year contracts for the two networks.
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Boosted by a Dallas  Cowboys-Chicago Bears matchup on &quot;Sunday Night Football,&quot; NBC  won Sunday night&#39;s primetime against season premieres on CBS  and Fox.
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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 networkâs coverage of Super Bowl Sunday and Super Duper Tuesday will meld.
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NEW YORK -- The NBA announced extensions of its television contracts with ESPN/ABC and TNT on Wednesday, deals that will include rights for digital media content.
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CBS said the $280 million deal will allow the service to continue to operate as an independent unit.
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Fox will be the new television home of the Bowl Championship Series. The network and the BCS announced a four-year, &#36;80 million deal Monday that gives Fox the broadcast rights to the Fiesta, Orange and Sugar bowls from 2007-10 and the national title game from 2007-09.
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You wouldn't think there would be any more room at Fox, CBS , NBC, ESPN, and the NFL Network to add bodies to their programming teams, but a stunning twist to the landscape has mandated it.
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The NBA announced extensions of its television contracts with ESPN/ABC and TNT on Wednesday, deals that will include rights for digital media content.
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By Aman Batheja, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep. 15--Time Warner customers will no longer have the NFL Channel, effective today, after the cable company and network were unable to reach an agreement.
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Saturday's potentially  historic football game between the New England Patriots and the  New York Giants will be simulcast on both NBC and CBS under an  unusual deal hammered out by the NFL Network.
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The NFL Network said Monday  it would accept Time Warner Cable's offer to carry the channel  on a digital tier for a week beginning Christmas Eve.
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Italian Serie A games will be televised in the United States on Fox Soccer Channel under a three-year agreement that starts with the 2007-8 season.
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NEW YORK (Sports Network) - The New York Jets and  quarterback Chad Pennington finally agreed on a long-term  contract extension Wednesday.
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Sunday's Ravens-Patriots game, which was seen in 75 percent of the country, highlighted CBS's late-afternoon NFL coverage (other games in that window were Jets-Cardinals, Dolphins-49ers, and Bills-Seahawks). Nationally, those games generated a 15.4 overnight rating (27 share) in the 56 metered markets. It was the best rating for a CBS window in 2004 and a 14 percent increase over the ...
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For the first time in its history, the National Football League concluded only part of a long-term television deal yesterday, settling its Sunday afternoon packages with Fox and CBS through