Cable cos. get free week of NFL Network
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The NFL has offered one free week of its network programming to two cable TV operators who don't carry the channel, and one will show the Texas Bowl between Rutgers and Kansas State.
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By Bill Bradley, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Dec. 13--So what does NFLN next to the 49ers' TV listing mean? For those who have not heard, that's the NFL Network, where Thursday night's 49ers-Seattle game will be televised.
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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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By John Ryan, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Dec. 14--The NFL Network's big legal fight is elsewhere, since it's under contract with Comcast and the channel is available on digital cable here.
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It is nearly impossible in Jacksonville, Fla., to ignore the NFL Network, the league's 24-hour network all about itself.
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The league signed a six-year extension of its Sunday afternoon CBS and FOX deals through 2011. The NFL will receive $8 billion in rights fees for the Sunday afternoon packages.
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The NFL has offered one free week of its network programming to two cable TV operators who do not carry the channel in hopes of breaking a deadlock.
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The Dallas Cowboys Channel, a 24-hour cable network devoted to America's Team, will launch Sept. 8 and be available to more than 1.3 Comcast subscribers in Texas and adjoining states.
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The NFL Network has  expanded its distribution in time for preseason football,  reaching a deal with EchoStar Communications Corp. to expand  carriage on the Dish Network to basic service.
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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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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 Rutgers-Kansas State Texas Bowl game will be available on the NFL Network as part of a free preview from Dec. 24-30 that the network offered last week to Time Warner and Cablevision.
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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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CBS and Fox yesterday announced an $8 million rights extension with the National Football League that gives the networks the right to continue televising
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By Carolyn Shapiro, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Mar. 1--Hey, all you local Redskins fans: You can now watch your NFL team in high-definition on cable TV.   After at least two years of talks, cable television provider Cox Communications Inc.
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By Sanford Nowlin, San Antonio Express-News  Dec. 12--Time Warner Cable is aiming a new local ad blitz at the NFL  after facing weeks of public pressure from the league for not carrying its  fledgling cable network.
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With the NFL Network carrying two college bowl games, the three-year old network finds itself fighting on another tier with the cable companies that are refusing to carry the channel.