NFL receives $8 billion from CBS, Fox
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NEW YORK (Ticker) - CBS and Fox gave the National Football League $8 billion reasons to keep games on free television. The NFL on Monday agreed to six-year contract extensions with CBS and Fox to continue
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Pop singer Janet Jackson's bare breast flash earlier this year during the nationally televised Super Bowl football game will cost 20 CBS stations that aired it a combined &#36;550,000 for violating indecency rules, U.S. communications regulators said on Wednesday.
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On Monday, Fox will announce a four-year deal to carry four Bowl Championship Series games, according to an executive familiar with the negotiations, starting with bowls after the 2006 regular season.
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The Patriots-Giants game will be available to fans throughout the nation under a simulcast agreement reached by NBC and CBS.
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News Corp's Fox network generated  about $250 million from Super Bowl television advertising  revenue, Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch said.
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Twenty CBS-owned TV stations have challenged plans by federal regulators to fine them $550,000 (296,610 pounds) collectively for airing Janet Jackson&#39;s breast-baring Super Bowl performance.
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The News Corporation agreed to sell eight Fox network-affiliated television stations to Oak Hill Capital Partners for about $1.1 billion.
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The NFL agreed to contract extensions with Fox and CBS to televise games for six more years.
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CBS said it concluded a series of agreements with cable system operators that would generate a new stream of revenue for the network.
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For an NFL devotee reading or hearing about a flexible Monday Night Football schedule, an option contained in the six-year, $8-billion contracts awarded to CBS and Fox on Tuesday, the concept appears quite intriguing.
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It&#39;s big news whenever the television networks throw $8 billion on the table, and even moreso when it&#39;s being thrown at the NFL, the Halliburton of sports.
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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 National Football League on Monday said it will extend broadcast rights for television networks CBS and FOX to air Sunday afternoon football games through 2011 in deals worth a combined $8 billion.
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Janet Jackson&#39;s split-second Super Bowl flash dance will cost Viacom $550,000. The FCC this week levied the maximum indecency fine of $27,500 for each of the 20 Viacom-owned CBS affiliates.
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NEW YORK Sunday afternoon NFL games are staying on CBS and Fox. The league and the networks have agreed to six-year contract extensions in deals worth a combined eight (b) billion dollars.
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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 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.