On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Bob in Jersey <bob.in.jer...@juno.com>wrote:
> That's what this WaPo piece is suggesting... the league's TV deal > usually stipulates that the visiting team's conference determines the > network carrying it (AFC=CBS, NFC=Fox), but without this move CBS > might have had too many games to cover: > > http://goo.gl/23MI8 CBS lost the Denver Broncos at Minnesota Vikings game to FOX on December 4th. Per Adam Schefter at ESPN, the league is looking to do this more often to see if they can get more money out of the networks when the contracts come up in a few years. It looks like the move was less CBS having too many games than FOX having too few. FOX has a double header day with only two early games before the switch (Carolina at Tampa Bay and Atlanta at Houston). This gives them a third game early. The late games don't work early - Giants-Packers is the high coverage game, Cowboys-Cardinals and Rams-49ers are West Coast starts. The NFC also has two of the three national games that week - Thursday is Philly-Seattle, Sunday prime is now Lions-Saints. OK - here's my question, before the season started, did anyone ever see Colts-Patriots being sent out of the primetime slot to a 1PM start and the Detroit Lions replacing the game? TVG -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
