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NFL PRESEASON ON FOX: AN AFC MATCHUP?

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Studio20

Interesting. The network that normally covers the NFC, and only shows those AFC teams when they host the NFC team, is showing an all AFC matchup Thursday , Oakland vs Tennessee..

I seem to recall sometime waaaay back in the CBS, which at the time covered the NFC, had a regular season matchup between the Jets and New England.
 
Studio20 said:
Interesting. The network that normally covers the NFC, and only shows those AFC teams when they host the NFC team, is showing an all AFC matchup Thursday , Oakland vs Tennessee..
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...that's tomorrow (Friday) night, not tonight (Thursday). Right now I'm watching the Panthers at Philadelphia (and it's a good picture as long as KMSB/11's digital signal stops spackling)...
 
And indeed, that would make sense, when you think about it.

The whole AFC/NFC thing with CBS and FOX during the season is built around the fact that the networks distribute regional broadcasts. In the pre-season, the local/regional broadcasts are produced and distributed by local stations, with usually a small "(team) TV network" to feed outlying markets that are still in the sphere of influence of the major market where the NFL team is.

Here in Cleveland, NBC affiliate WKYC/3 produces the Browns pre-season games, and sends them to Youngstown, Columbus and the like.

Since CBS and FOX are not taking the role of producing/distributing local telecasts in pre-season, they can presumably air what they want.
 
Really, the biggest reason Fox and CBS even do preseason games is to get their crews back in midseason form. I some markets, they use their backup crews to produce local preseason games.
 
I was actually shocked when I heard Joe Buck call last night's Panthers/Eagles game. I thought, "What's this?Joe Buck calling a game in which the Giants are not involved?"
 
My apologies: Friday.

Speaking of Buck, apparantly he's bored with calling baseball. He took himself off the Cardinals TV and maybe now he ll be off baseball till the playoffs.

Wondered if he, like FOX, is afraid they may have to do a game from Tropicana Field?*


(* Home of the Tampa Bay Rays, American League East leader. May not be there when its over, but you'd think having had no success for 10 years while other players were needling themselves, the Rays would be a nice story for baseball in general. But the only reason FOX has baseball is so they can have the same eight teams most of the season, and hope to God at least one major market team is in the Series)

Even ESPN has shown the Rays.
 
BRice16 said:
Really, the biggest reason Fox and CBS even do preseason games is to get their crews back in midseason form. I some markets, they use their backup crews to produce local preseason games.
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Not only the behind the scenes crews for various teams. Long-time network NFL announcer Sam Rosen did a couple of years as the analyst for the Browns pre-season TV broadcasts, and he is not alone in doing that sort of thing.
 
Studio20 said:
My apologies: Friday.

Speaking of Buck, apparantly he's bored with calling baseball. He took himself off the Cardinals TV and maybe now he ll be off baseball till the playoffs.

Wondered if he, like FOX, is afraid they may have to do a game from Tropicana Field?*


(* Home of the Tampa Bay Rays, American League East leader. May not be there when its over, but you'd think having had no success for 10 years while other players were needling themselves, the Rays would be a nice story for baseball in general. But the only reason FOX has baseball is so they can have the same eight teams most of the season, and hope to God at least one major market team is in the Series)

Even ESPN has shown the Rays.
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Joe Buck wanted to spend more time with his family then doing the STL Cardinals games
 
It sounded like there was a weather delay of almost an hour. What did FOX do with the time?
 
After about a half hour of filling time with recaps of the reason for the delay and riffing on other teams' prospects for the upcoming season, when told at 9 the game would resume at about 9:30, they went to a first-season rerun of Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader to fill some time. They only ran about 20 minutes of it before going back to coverage of the game gearing up to start again.
 
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