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Joe in Philly

Nov 9 2004, 08:43 AM

It's a six-year extension with Fox and CBS worth $8 billion. Talks are continuing with ESPN and ABC for the Sunday/Monday night package.

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The deals give the NFL the option to move seven late-season games from Sunday to Monday night to feature more attractive matchups, according to an official within the league who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

The NFL also can develop late-season prime-time satellite or cable packages of eight games, which would be televised on Thursdays and Saturdays. Or the league could take those eight games and show them regionally in prime-time telecasts on Sundays and Mondays.

DirecTV also extended its deal with the league through 2010 for the Sunday Ticket package. The satellite distributor will pay $3.5 billion for the five-year extension.

Ka-CHING! wink

Any additional games in a cable package (or if they somehow got the Sunday Ticket on digital cable instead of just satellite) would work for me.

NFLJockGuy

Nov 9 2004, 10:41 AM

There's no way that Sunday Ticket will be moved/offered to either regular cable or digital pay per view cable...DirectTV has too much at stake and pays WAY to much cash to the NFL for that to happen...The DirectTV deal was actually part of the agreement made yesterday also...that exclusive agreement has always been there...in fact, DirectTV is adding a REDZone Channel that will shift from game to game whenever a team gets inside the 20 yard line...

Joe in Philly

Nov 9 2004, 01:51 PM

And so long as Comcast doesn't allow their Comcast Sportsnet station (with local sports teams broadcasts) here to be available to satellite subscribers, there's no way I'd ever sign up for DirecTV in order to get the Sunday Ticket. I'm not paying for both cable and satellite, and I'm not missing out on the local teams' games. So by not working out a deal, they're making that much less money from me.

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