Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: NFL trying to discover the dumbest possible deal they can convince the networks to accept...

Almost as good, a PR article from NFL.com which confirms the nets keep it for consecutive weeks; CBS first then NBC. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300630862/article/nfl-expands-thursday-night-football-package On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 7:53 PM, Bob Jersey wrote: > >

[TV orNotTV] Re: NFL trying to discover the dumbest possible deal they can convince the networks to accept...

Wesley (in Colorade), Jan 22nd: > > If it's Thursday night, it must be football. So according to the WSJ, the > NFL is close to a deal with CBS and NBC so that they both can carry NFL > games on Thursday nights. The deal would be that NBC and CBS each get 5 > games (cumulatively more games on

[TV orNotTV] Re: NFL trying to discover the dumbest possible deal they can convince the networks to accept...

> I think the owners are satiated. Alas, the owners are never satiated. And unless the league starts giving byes to teams the week before they play on Thursdays, the games themselves will continue to be awful. (They'll look awful this year, as well, with the Color Rush program in full swing.)

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: NFL trying to discover the dumbest possible deal they can convince the networks to accept...

It's worth quickly revisiting the history of NFLN. When the owners decided to launch it in 2006, the whole idea was to eventually put games on it. It was sold to the owners on the theory that carriage rights would be worth more than if the league had put the games up for competitive bid. The