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One step closer to a national Comcast Sports Network?

> OLN (née Outdoor Life Network) signed an agreement today
> (Friday 2/17) to become the cable home of the Arena Football
> League.
>
> TV Week article:
> http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=9410
>
> Stelly
>

I saw the schedule and what good is it to have tape delayed games for what looks like a third of the schedule? If OLN is going to do Arena Football which to me is a sport that should be shown mostly in the evening (I don't know i'm used to that vibe from watch the Tampa Bay Storm since 1991), why show day games or tape delayed night games.
 
This is simply the NFL's way of making Comcast pay some dues if they want anything to do with the NFL when this national sports network does takes hold. (NFL owns 49 percent of the AFL)

Since ESPN bailed, AFL games were popping up on cable all over the place. The league would use the play by play guy from one team, and the analyst from the other team, under the AFL TV banner. Makes for some interesting commentary.

Of course, the olympics and NASCAR have put AFL out to pasture this weekend.
 
Hi everyone:

> This is simply the NFL's way of making Comcast pay some dues
> if they want anything to do with the NFL when this national
> sports network does takes hold. (NFL owns 49 percent of the
> AFL)

It won't take hold like Comcast would like because it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that OLN is just simply trying to imitate FOX Sports Net, which does a FAR better job of producing stuff than OLN does IMO.

That said though, I don't think the NFL had any influence in the decision.

> Since ESPN bailed, AFL games were popping up on cable all
> over the place. The league would use the play by play guy
> from one team, and the analyst from the other team, under
> the AFL TV banner. Makes for some interesting commentary.

Makes me wonder why NFL Network doesn't do anything for the AFL (especially since they're gonna be televising LIVE NFL games this upcoming season).

> Of course, the olympics and NASCAR have put AFL out to
> pasture this weekend.

Naah. It's just been relegated to FSN only, which will televise regional games every Friday or Saturday Night for the remainder of the season. The AFL is still playing.

Cheers :)

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> It won't take hold like Comcast would like because it
> doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that OLN is just
> simply trying to imitate FOX Sports Net, which does a FAR
> better job of producing stuff than OLN does IMO.
>
> That said though, I don't think the NFL had any influence in
> the decision.

The NFL would prefer that the AFL teams now be owned and operated, if not directly by owners of NFL franchises, by subsidiaries of them.

As for FSN, they were fortunate that they didn't need to start from scratch. Each regional network was already functioning (Prime, Prime Sports Network, Prime Sports Northwest, SportsSouth, and the various SportsChannel outlets)

Comcast is starting with one network, OLN.




> > Of course, the olympics and NASCAR have put AFL out to
> > pasture this weekend.
>
> Naah. It's just been relegated to FSN only, which will
> televise regional games every Friday or Saturday Night for
> the remainder of the season. The AFL is still playing.
>
> Cheers :)
>
> Pat
>

Yes they are, but the agreement signed with nBC originally was for games to be broadcast EVERY Sunday over the air....that was modified with the olympics and daytona...and a blow to the league which needs every Sunday they can get..
 
Well, look at the reality of things. NBC is in a revenue-sharing arrangement with the AFL, pays zero for rights and has the whole spring and summer (until the NFL gets back in gear) to rake in what they can.

Meanwhile, NBC is paying monster dollars to the International Olympic Committee for the rights to an event that at most will only disrupt the AFL TV package for two early weeks this season, and commanding top dollar from advertisers for same, ratings notwithstanding.

So, when it comes down to the bottom line Methinks the AFL can live with the disruption.

(BTW: I didn't include NASCAR in the mix. Everyone knows Daytona is held the Sunday before Presidents Day. Besides, NBC's contract expires in November.)
 
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