Fox was planning to air Cowboys-Bills in 89% of the nation, with Eagles-Seahawks going to 10%. By moving the latter to ABC, Fox can pump Cowboys-Bills to the whole nation. (and you notice, the Cardinals used their blackout two weeks ago, knowing this could happen.
I read that Fox left Cowboys-Bills unprotected. On Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 11:43:58 AM UTC-5 Tom Wolper wrote: > From a podcast interview with the NFL’s VP of Broadcast Planning: flexing > is done to move playoff relevant games from 1 PM to prime time. So it’s not > a simple matter of looking for games that will draw more viewers. The > Chiefs and Patriots (Chiefs in, Patriots out) is less relevant than Eagles > and Seahawks (Eagles in, Seahawks contending). > > And the 4/4:30 national games get more viewers (30 million) than Sunday > night (28 million) so the networks won’t agree to flex them to prime time. > > On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 3:12 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < > tvor...@googlegroups.com> wrote: > >> All times East: That's the 14th through 18th of December, when three >> games are played Saturday, all principally on NFL Network, but the league >> has to pick from five contests to determine those three... they took >> Vikings-Bengals (1pm), Steelers-Colts (4:30), and Broncos-Lions (8:15), >> leaving Falcons-Panthers and Bears-Browns to the Sunday networks, where Fox >> took both for 1 o'clock... there was also a flexing involving Monday night, >> a first in the league, where ESPN dealt Chiefs-Patriots to Fox (also at 1) >> for Eagles-Seahawks... >> >> https://nflcommunications.com/Pages/Week-15-Flex-Scheduling---Eagles-Seahawks-to-Monday-Night;-NFL-Network-Tripleheader-on-Saturday.aspx >> (link) >> >> B >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to tvornottv+...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/94941039-1bc5-40df-babb-efb41cfe66fan%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/94941039-1bc5-40df-babb-efb41cfe66fan%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/b78ccf07-bfe8-494b-8ed4-c83178d76c05n%40googlegroups.com.
