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NFl Network to get Thursday/Saturday games in 2006?

Discussion in 'Carolina Panthers' started by bigdan, Jan 28, 2006.

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  1. Jan 28, 2006 at 10:38 AM #1
    bigdan

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    ESPN reporting that NFL Network will carry a total of eight Thursday/Saturday games in 2006. Also reported one of those Thursday games will be on Thanksgiving Night between Dallas and Washington.
     
  2. Jan 28, 2006 at 10:59 AM #2
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    :wtf23: I guess those will be games i miss. I don't have Satellite, digital cable. that shit ain't right. :wtf23:
     
  3. Jan 28, 2006 at 11:08 AM #3
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    you live near a bar?

    but then again... your cheap ass can't spring for some tv, I don't imagine you can afford $2.50 beers
     
  4. Jan 28, 2006 at 11:19 AM #4
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    No:fu1:, it's called having a family and living on a budget
     
  5. Jan 28, 2006 at 11:24 AM #5
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    :D

    that's what nieghbors are for anyway
     
  6. Jan 28, 2006 at 11:46 AM #6
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    What i don't get is why Time warner can't get the NFl Network they should get the NFL Network and espnU
     
  7. Jan 28, 2006 at 12:16 PM #7
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    Charter Communications offered NFL Network on the Digital Tier here in Marion for about the past year, and then all of a sudden two weeks ago, they took it off the lineup and added MAV-TV in its place. I would bet Charter will be scrambling to get it back on the system here in time for the fall.
     
  8. Jan 28, 2006 at 12:26 PM #8
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    Right. Regular cable will probably get the channel if it has something to sell besides to NFL geeks. (said affectionately). I don't have it either.

    I'm not happy about Thursday games, except for Thanksgiving.
     
  10. Jan 28, 2006 at 3:07 PM #10
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    NFL Network to carry prime-time games in 2006 season

    Jan. 28, 2006
    CBS SportsLine.com wire reports

    NEW YORK -- The NFL Network will broadcast eight prime-time games on Thursdays and Saturdays beginning next season.

    The eight-game package, announced by commissioner Paul Tagliabue on Saturday, will begin with a game on Thanksgiving night. All of the games also will be shown on local stations in the teams' home markets. The package was created by taking Saturday and Sunday games that originally would have been shown by the league's broadcast partners or on their regional telecasts.

    The league runs the 2-year-old NFL Network, which is in about 40 million homes. The addition of games to its lineup almost assuredly will increase that number.

    The league also has lucrative deals with CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN and DirecTV.

    "After discussing this new package of games with many potential partners, we decided it would be best presented on our own, high-quality NFL Network, which has developed so rapidly that the time had come to add live regular-season games to the programming," Tagliabue said. "In the end, we wanted these games on our network, which is devoted 24/7 to the sport of football, and not on a multi-sport network."

    ESPN is paying $1.1 billion annually over eight years to broadcast the Monday night games. NBC has a six-year, $3.6 billion deal for the Sunday night package. CBS and Fox are paying a total of $8 billion over six years for the rights to Sunday afternoon games. DirecTV agreed to pay $3.5 billion for a five-year extension that runs through 2010.
    AP NEWS
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