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November 9, 2004

New NFL TV Deal

NFL agrees to six-year extensions with Fox and CBS worth $8 billion:

A unique aspect of the extensions -- and something Tagliabue has sought for several years -- gives the NFL the option to move seven late-season games from Sunday to Monday night to feature more attractive matchups.

The NFL also can develop late-season prime-time satellite or cable packages of eight games, which would be televised on Thursdays and Saturdays. Or the league could take those eight games and show them regionally in prime-time telecasts on Sundays and Mondays.

``We got some protections,'' Fox Sports chairman David Hill said. ``The last several weeks of the season, the NFL has the right to pull a game for Monday Night Football and we're still in conversation on (details).''

As a viewer of MNF, I'm pleased about this. However, if I was a season-ticket holder of a team that could potentially host a game that moved to another time than what was originally scheduled, I'd be a little perturbed.

Posted by Alex Harden on November 9, 2004 11:23 AM |

Comments

Didn't you suggest just such a setup a year or so ago? Maybe I am wrong but I could of sworn you mentioning something like this last year.

Posted by: Scotbuff | November 9, 2004 12:45 PM

You might be thinking of this entry, where divisional-only matchups the final three weeks of the season were mentioned as possibly helping to make more exciting MNF games.

I know I've thought about this concept before, but don't know if I ever posted about it here or on Nitevilla. I did a quick search of both places and couldn't find anything.

Posted by: aharden | November 9, 2004 1:06 PM

Yes, I think that is the entry I was thinking of. Kind of along the same lines as far as making the late season Monday night games more meaningful.

Posted by: Scotbuff | November 9, 2004 2:38 PM

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