Fox's NFL Pregame Grip Slips
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By Michael Hiestand  Usually, TV sports is beholden to a factor beyond its control: whether the games end up being compelling. NFL pregame shows are different. They're a sort of junior version of the network evening battles as men in (TV) makeup go mano a mano and somebody finishes first.
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NEW YORK  - ABC and the NFL aren't  taking any chances with this week's kickoff show, the first  time football has had an entertainment-style revue since the  notorious "wardrobe malfunction" during the Super Bowl halftime  show in February.
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The NFL Network suffers from growing pains as disputes continue between the league and three of the countryÃÂ¿s largest cable companies.
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The imminent closure of Lambs may be the price paid for a game's failure to attract TV coverage
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Three days after ABC took a pass on renewal of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS), Fox took the ball and signed a four-year agreement to televise the BCS and a new college football championship game.
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A lot of men and women will watch the Super Bowl next week but they probably won't be focusing on the same aspects of the game.
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Fox ruled prime-time television  ratings last week as the combination of "American Idol" and a  closely-fought football playoff game trumped everything  broadcast by the other major networks.
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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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The Super Bowl may be four months away but ad sales are already hotter than Janet Jackson at last year&#39;s halftime show. Fox, which will broadcast the big game on Feb. 6, has sold out two
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The Fox network let down a lot of people who, having worked themselves into a lather over the O.J. Simpson interview, were about to get even angrier once Fox put it on the air.
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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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A moment of respectful silence, please, for Fox's departing "The O.C."
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The NFL Network wants to add subscribers in advance of the potentially historic Patriots-Giants game on Dec. 29, but is still at an impasse with Time Warner.
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It was very much unlike John Fox, normally a steady and conservative coach: a trick play that cost the Carolina Panthers a seemingly safe one-touchdown lead and, eventually, a game in Minnesota.
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Joe Buck will host Fox's pregame NFL show and postgame doubleheader show in addition to his play-by-play work &#151; an unprecedented triple for a broadcaster.
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Call it the ripple effect, or the nipple effect, but Super Bowl advertisers have eased off the hoopla ahead of the National Football League championship game this year following an indecency scandal last year.
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The week leading up to the Super Bowl is often a banner week for TV sales, but recent data suggest that sales of high-definition TVs may be leveling off.