Sunday Won't Be Only Ticket in N.F.L.'s New TV Deal
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The N.F.L. settled its Sunday afternoon packages with Fox and CBS through the 2011 season, but left its prime-time and cable packages unresolved.
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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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NEW YORK -- 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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ESPN's first regular-season Monday night NFL game under the new contract drew the cable network's biggest audience ever.
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How signing NASCAR's first nationwide TV deal helped grow the sport.
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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 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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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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NEW YORK -- CBS and Fox yesterday announced an $8 million rights extension with the National Football League that gives the networks the right to continue televising Sunday afternoon games for an additional six seasons, through 2011.
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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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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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Politically charged drama, comedy, and reality fare is coming to network and cable TV.
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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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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 Hollywood studios  have figured out how to counterprogram against the behemoth  weekend television event that is Super Bowl Sunday. Sony  Pictures and Universal Pictures both scored this frame at the  North American box office with two releases aimed specifically  at audiences not typically interested in the big game.
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By Alan Pergament  Things have gone so badly for fourth-place NBC in the last few seasons that it had to lob a Hail Mary pass and make a deal with the National Football League.
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&quot;We want everybody to be calling it `Fox-borough' this weekend.&quot; That's the word from Scott Ackerson, coordinating producer for &quot;Fox NFL Sunday,&quot; the network's pregame NFL program. The show, which normally emanates from a Los Angeles studio, is making a rare in-season &quot;road trip&quot; and will originate today from Gillette Stadium (Channel 25, noon).