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The new NFL TV deal

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The new NFL TV contract commencing in 2006... I know MNF is moving to ESPN and SNF to NBC, but is the NFC staying on Fox and the AFC on CBS?

Is NBC going to show Wild Card Saturday starting next year?

How about the Super Bowls? Who will be showing which Super Bowls?

And how long does the contract last?

ixnay
 
> The new NFL TV contract commencing in 2006... I know MNF is
> moving to ESPN and SNF to NBC, but is the NFC staying on Fox
> and the AFC on CBS?
>
> Is NBC going to show Wild Card Saturday starting next year?
>
> How about the Super Bowls? Who will be showing which Super
> Bowls?
>
> And how long does the contract last?
>
> ixnay
>
The NFC package will stay on Fox, while CBS keeps their AFC coverage. From what I read, NBC does take over ABC's Wild Card Saturday games as well.

As far as the Super Bowl rotation, CBS gets Super Bowl XLI (Miami) in 2007, Fox has the SB XLII from the new Cardinals stadium in Glendale (surburban Phoenix) in 2008, NBC has SB XLIII from Tampa in 2009, and CBS has 44th edition, again from Miami, in 2010.
 
> As far as the Super Bowl rotation, CBS gets Super Bowl XLI
> (Miami) in 2007, Fox has the SB XLII from the new Cardinals
> stadium in Glendale (surburban Phoenix) in 2008, NBC has SB
> XLIII from Tampa in 2009, and CBS has 44th edition, again
> from Miami, in 2010.

Super Bowl XLV in 2011 is almost a sure-fire bet to be at the new Cowboys stadium in Arlington, Texas. Fox will get that game.
 
So does this mean that NBC will have both AFC and NFC matchups during the regular season? I assume it will be like the current Sunday Night Football on ESPN.
 
Radioguy555 asked:

> So does this mean that NBC will have both AFC and NFC
> matchups during the regular season? I assume it will be like
> the current Sunday Night Football on ESPN.

Yes and no.

Supposedely, the Sunday-night games will replace Monday-night games as the NFL's "premiere" television showcase.

In fact, Sunday-night games during the latter weeks of the season will be "To Be Determined". The league and NBC will have the option of moving a "big" game on a couple of weeks' notice from Sunday afternoon to Sunday night. This should prevent NBC from getting stuck with either games between two bad teams, or one-sided blowouts.

In addition to the Sunday-night games, the two Saturday games during the first weekend of the playoffs, and Super Bowls in 2009 and 2012, NBC will also carry the opening game of the NFL season (in 2006, it will be Thursday, September 7th), which had until now been part of the "Monday Night Football" package. That game will likely be the 2006 season opener of whoever wins Super Bowl XL this February.

The NFL's all-star game, the Pro Bowl, will be rotated between CBS, Fox and NBC starting in February, 2007; whichever network has the Super Bowl will broadcast the Pro Bowl the following week.

This NBC press release runs down what is included in their Sunday-night NFL package.
 
> > As far as the Super Bowl rotation, CBS gets Super Bowl XLI
>
> > (Miami) in 2007, Fox has the SB XLII from the new
> Cardinals
> > stadium in Glendale (surburban Phoenix) in 2008, NBC has
> SB
> > XLIII from Tampa in 2009, and CBS has 44th edition, again
> > from Miami, in 2010.
>
> Super Bowl XLV in 2011 is almost a sure-fire bet to be at
> the new Cowboys stadium in Arlington, Texas. Fox will get
> that game.
>
Yes, and that stadium is going to be amazing. They sidestepped some serious politics to get it... but it will still be great.

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