• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Who Has The Local OTA Rights To ESPN & NFL Network Games In Your Area?

JeeperOne

JeeperOne

Banned
Hi everyone:

I was thumbing through the sports pages earlier tonight and came across the Denver Broncos 2006 schedule. Among all the obvious things that should be in it was something that took me by surprise.

In fact, I was FLOORED by it.

If you've watched any of Denver's three preseason games aired via local OTA this year, you probably noticed that the station who has the local OTA rights to Broncos preseason games is CBS O&O KCNC 4 (With FSN Rocky Mountain having re-broadcast rights and providing the sideline reporter).

Well GUESS WHO has the local OTA rights to Broncos games on ESPN & NFL Network this year.

FOX O&O KDVR 31.

Now I figured that when KDVR 31 carried the Houston-Denver preseason game that was also on NFL Network last week, I kinda figured Okay....SOMEONE has to pick up the NFL Network OTA rights, so it may as well be them.. As such, I wasn't too surprised to see that they'll be the one to carry the Denver-Kansas City game on Thanksgiving Night (Though there's gonna be an awful lot of local Dallas Cowboy fans who will be upset should the Cowboys game go into overtime and KDVR is forced to drop the game to pick up the Denver-Kansas City game).

HOWEVER, boy did I get the shock of my life when I saw that KDVR will also be carrying the ESPN Monday Night games as well. I would've thought FOR SURE those games would've gone to Gannett-owned KTVD 20, the local now-soon-to-be MY Network affiliate as KTVD 20 picking up the Broncos Monday Night games would've made much more sense than an O&O of one of ESPN sister network ABC's rival networks would.

At least one would think....

Thoughts?

All this said,....Who has the local OTA rights to ESPN & NFL Network games in YOUR area? Any surprises?

Cheers :D
 
Up until now, the Patriots were carried by WCVB-TV/DT (ABC) channel 5/D 20 of Boston. I'm not sure who carried the Jets and Giants over-the-air in New York.
 
Pat Cook said:
Hi everyone:


All this said,....Who has the local OTA rights to ESPN & NFL Network games in YOUR area? Any surprises?

Cheers :D
Click to expand...

Last night here in Albuquerque, KASY(My) aired the cowboy games, and KWBQ(CW) aired the Bronco games. I was surprised to see it myself!
 
In years past, KTXA-21 has aired the Cowboys cable games in the Dallas-Fort Worth market. I suspect that's the case this year too.
 
Eagles: preseason, they had 5 games. One was the NBC SNF debut. The other 4 aired on 6ABC, WPVI. Three of those games were Eagles Television Network productions, with Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia getting rights to the rebroadcasts. The fourth was an ESPN production that 6 simulcasted. Makes perfect sense; they're corporate cousins.

Eagles have two cable games on Monday night in the regular season, and I imagine 6 will be the OTA broadcaster for those games as well.
 
Hi everyone:
MarcB said:
Kevin Lagasse said:
I'm not sure who carried the Jets and Giants over-the-air in New York.
Click to expand...
Jets were on CBS 2. Giants on NBC 4.


Connecticut: UCONN Huskies Football games from ESPN+ are/were on CW-20. But Thursdays UCONN Huskies Football game from ESPN+ wasn't on CW-20. It was on cable on the YES Network.
Click to expand...
I probably should have more clear. When it came to ESPN, I was specifically referring to ESPN Monday Night Football. Not their college coverage.

The reason why I make I make this reference is while I'm sure there are adequate outlets to handle ESPN college game rebroadcasts who have done so for years and then there are some don't even bother with them just like there are outlets who've typically handled ESPN's Sunday Night games when they had those rights (And some outlets never bothered with them either), this is the first year that Monday Night Football has ever undergone this type of treatment. And since NFL teams are generally covered differently than their college counterparts, I was curiously wondering how local broadcast outlets for most other teams IN THE NFL will handle OTA coverage when their games are on ESPN & NFL Network this season (Or if they will even bother with it).

Hope this helps clarify things :D

Cheers :D
 
Pat Cook said:
Hi everyone:
MarcB said:
Kevin Lagasse said:
I'm not sure who carried the Jets and Giants over-the-air in New York.
Click to expand...
Jets were on CBS 2. Giants on NBC 4.


Connecticut: UCONN Huskies Football games from ESPN+ are/were on CW-20. But Thursdays UCONN Huskies Football game from ESPN+ wasn't on CW-20. It was on cable on the YES Network.
Click to expand...
I probably should have more clear. When it came to ESPN, I was specifically referring to ESPN Monday Night Football. Not their college coverage.

The reason why I make I make this reference is while I'm sure there are adequate outlets to handle ESPN college game rebroadcasts who have done so for years and then there are some don't even bother with them just like there are outlets who've typically handled ESPN's Sunday Night games when they had those rights (And some outlets never bothered with them either), this is the first year that Monday Night Football has ever undergone this type of treatment.
Click to expand...
Correction: Much as ABC and ESPN would like to convince you otherwise, the true legacy ESPN's MNF is inheriting is Sunday Night Football, and the true MNF legacy is over on NBC.

I would imagine the television contracts would, for the most part, continue from the old SNF contracts, with some legal and schedule vagaries.

If MarcB really thought your request extended to college games, the problem isn't that your request was unclear, the problem is, he's an idiot (at least a partial one). He was the only one to even bring up the college game. Sheesh.
 
For several years the OTA rights for the Falcons are WGCL 46 our CBS affiliate. However the local NBC station, WXIA has the rights to the Preseason games not nationally televised.
 
...the Green Bay Packers are on WBAY/2 Green Bay and WISN-TV/12 Milwaukee for the two ESPN games this year (at Philadelphia on 2 October and at Seattle on 27 November), and on WFRV/5 Green Bay, WJMN/3 Escanaba and WITI/6 Milwaukee for the NFL Network game hosting the Vikings on 21 December...

...interesting situation about that last game in La Crosse, where the Mississippi River divides the market fairly evenly into Packer and Viking territories. WXOW/19, the La Crosse ABC station, tells me that the OTA rights for the cable games are being kept by the League to the Green Bay and Milwaukee TV markets for the Packers and Minneapolis-St. Paul for the Vikings. Since Charter Communications here doesn't have the NFL Network at this point, and cable is necessary to even get the CBS and NBC stations here in some neighborhoods, it's possible that the game won't be seen at all in this market...
 
The Cleveland Browns' only non-Sunday day appearance in the regular season is a Thursday night NFL Network tilt with the rival Pittsburgh Steelers, which will air locally on FOX O&O WJW/8.

The pre-season home for the Browns is WKYC/3 (NBC), which just picked up those rights after WOIO/19 (CBS) messed up, big time...
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom