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<a target="_blank" href=http://www.nfl.com/schedules/tv/national_preseason>Preseaon NFL Schedule</a> CBS, FOX, NBC, ESPN, NFL Network

<a target="_blank" href=http://www.nfl.com/schedules/tv/primetime>NBC Sunday Night Football and ESPN's Monday Night Football Schedule</a>

<a target="_blank" href=http://www.nfl.com/schedules/tv/national>National Television Schedule</a> CBS, FOX, NBC, ESPN, NFL Network

Now with The NFL Network airing regular season games might we see cable companies add this channel to regular cable? I think it should be just like ESPN and ESPN2. As I am sure some people won't be happy if they can't see the Thanksgiving Game on The NFL Network or the games on The NFL Network during December. After all football is a very popular sport to watch. So does anyone say cable companies will move The NFL Network to regular cable?
 
So does anyone say cable companies
> will move The NFL Network to regular cable?

Cable companies will do whatever makes them the most money. If they can gain enough subscribers to cover the cost of adding NFL Network, they'll cover it. If not, all the pleading in the world won't help.
 
I doubt it. Comcast here in New Britain, CT (southwest of Hartford) won't even carry the new regional sports channel from the New York Mets, let alone anything else. We only get that channel on digital cable channel 165. All I know at this point is that Miami gets national TV three times:

THU SEP 7 @ Pittsburgh (NBC) [Regular season opener]
THU NOV 23 @ Detroit (CBS) [Thanksgiving]
MON DEC 25 New York Jets (ESPN) [Christmas]

Like most other teams, 6 of their last 8 games have the potential to be moved to NBC for Sunday night prime time.

As for coverage on the analog tier, it's possible. Cable channels 14 and 15 are simply color bars and have had nothing on them since last September.
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> I doubt it. Comcast here in New Britain, CT (southwest of
> Hartford) won't even carry the new regional sports channel
> from the New York Mets, let alone anything else. We only get
> that channel on digital cable channel 165. All I know at
> this point is that Miami gets national TV three times:
>
> THU SEP 7 @ Pittsburgh (NBC) [Regular season opener]
> THU NOV 23 @ Detroit (CBS) [Thanksgiving]
> MON DEC 25 New York Jets (ESPN) [Christmas]
>
> Like most other teams, 6 of their last 8 games have the
> potential to be moved to NBC for Sunday night prime time.
>
> As for coverage on the analog tier, it's possible. Cable
> channels 14 and 15 are simply color bars and have had
> nothing on them since last September.
>

I thought your a Yankee fan so why do you care if you have SNY or not? But I really doubt much of CT will get SNY even if it does say on sny.tv that all of CT should have SNY. Cox Cable won't add it, they dumped MSG for YES. And NESN was just added last April, took Cox along damn time to add NESN. But at least now I get so that I can see all the Red Sox games.

As for the current topic how about dumping FSN New England and replace it with NFL Network. Place Celtics games on Cox 3 and for Comcast on CN8. Most of the other junk on FSN New England is crap.
 
> So does anyone say cable companies
> > will move The NFL Network to regular cable?
>


The Kansas City-Denver Thanksgiving game is on the NFL Network, I believe. In the past, KMBC-TV (ABC, Hearst-Argyle) has aired Sunday night ESPN games involving the Chiefs. I've been told a local station will be allowed to air Chiefs games airing on the NFL Network, but I don't know which one. <P ID="signature">______________
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The Rocky Mountain News (Denver) has reported that the four major denver stations KUSA-NBC, KCNC-CBS, KMGH-ABC & KDVR-FOX are all in talks with the league to air the cable games over the air. CBS 4 is "The Home of the Broncos" but KUSA-9 has been showing the ESPN games the last couple of years after KMGH had the cable games for more than a decade.



> > So does anyone say cable companies
> > > will move The NFL Network to regular cable?
> >
>
>
> The Kansas City-Denver Thanksgiving game is on the NFL
> Network, I believe. In the past, KMBC-TV (ABC,
> Hearst-Argyle) has aired Sunday night ESPN games involving
> the Chiefs. I've been told a local station will be allowed
> to air Chiefs games airing on the NFL Network, but I don't
> know which one.
>
 
What are the chances of...

... the Houston Texans getting a late season game moved to NBC Sunday night? :-O

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Re: What are the chances of...

> ... the Houston Texans getting a late season game moved to
> NBC Sunday night? :-O

Absolutely zero, and I'm in Houston. The Texans would have to pull one of the most amazing one-season turnarounds in NFL history for that to happen. Getting back to 7-9 would satisfy the most rabid Texans fans here, although 6-10 is more realistic. Playoffs are still a couple of years away, if the new Kubiak regime works out.
 
Re: What are the chances of...

Houston may actually get a late-season Sunday-night game on NBC even if the Texans have a lousy season......provided their opponent needs to beat the Texans to lock-up a playoff berth, division title, top-seed, or perhaps even an undefeated regular-season.

Still, the odds of that are very, very slight.
 
> The Rocky Mountain News (Denver) has reported that the four
> major denver stations KUSA-NBC, KCNC-CBS, KMGH-ABC &
> KDVR-FOX are all in talks with the league to air the cable
> games over the air. CBS 4 is "The Home of the Broncos" but
> KUSA-9 has been showing the ESPN games the last couple of
> years after KMGH had the cable games for more than a decade.
>
>
>
>
> > > So does anyone say cable companies
> > > > will move The NFL Network to regular cable?
> > >
> >
> >
> > The Kansas City-Denver Thanksgiving game is on the NFL
> > Network, I believe. In the past, KMBC-TV (ABC,
> > Hearst-Argyle) has aired Sunday night ESPN games involving
>
> > the Chiefs. I've been told a local station will be
> allowed
> > to air Chiefs games airing on the NFL Network, but I don't
>
> > know which one.
> >
>
What I don't get is this:

I go to the TV & Radio section of the NFL website.

It's April 2006, and the ABC Sports Logo is still on it.

When will they make the change?
 
> > So does anyone say cable companies
> > > will move The NFL Network to regular cable?
> >
>
>
> The Kansas City-Denver Thanksgiving game is on the NFL
> Network, I believe. In the past, KMBC-TV (ABC,
> Hearst-Argyle) has aired Sunday night ESPN games involving
> the Chiefs. I've been told a local station will be allowed
> to air Chiefs games airing on the NFL Network, but I don't
> know which one.

Yeah, the home markets setup for NFL Network will be just like what it's always been with ESPN--in that the game will be available over-the-air in the visiting team's market and (provided the game is sold out in time) the home team's market. It'll be like that with the Denver-KC game and with the rest of NFL Network's schedule...

... including the Minnesota-Green Bay game on December 21, where the likely sellout will air on broadcast TV in Green Bay and (if the past has been any indication) Milwaukee. The rest of Wisconsin will have to (a) buy a sattelite or (b) hope and pray that their cable company picks up NFL Network (on basic tier or otherwise) if it hasn't done so already. The Packers, needless to say, are an absolute religion here in Wisconsin, and lots of folks outside Green Bay/Milwaukee will be awfully upset if they can't see what could be Brett Farve's last regular season home game at Lambeau Field. My personal guess is lots of cable carriers (here in Wisconsin and in other states where the home team's NFL Network appearance won't have an over-the-air guarantee) will certainly feel the pressure between now and game date to add NFL Network... if not from the league but from fans that can't live without seeing their team's every game.
 
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