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NBC Sports broadcast 16 NHL regular season games, which is the most ever NHL regular season games broadcast on NBC. The NHL on NBC schedule featured a number of rivalries, including the Capitals–Penguins rivalry , the Blackhawks–Red Wings rivalry , the Bruins-Rangers rivalry, and the Avalanche-Blues rivalry.
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The 2006 season introduced a new graphics package [132] for The NFL on CBS, including a new logo (which also formed the base of SEC college football [133] and NCAA college basketball logos) and new NFL Today studio set, as part of a network-wide overhaul of the graphics package. The digital on-screen graphics were also changed, with red and a ...
Before the 2004–05 lockout, the NHL had reached two separate deals with NBC (who would replace ABC as the NHL's national U.S. broadcast television partner) and ESPN. [58] [59] [60] ESPN offered the NHL $60 million to renew its contract, carrying about 40 games (only fifteen of which would be during the regular season), mostly on ESPN2.
Following the game, NBCSN premiered a weekly recap show, NHL Sunday Shootout, which is a summary of the previous week's NHL action. During the 2016–17 NHL season , NBC Sports began to promote both the Game of the Week and Sunday Night Hockey broadcasts under the Star Sunday brand, focusing primarily on the NHL's star players.
On September 10, 2021, ViacomCBS announced that it would air a weekly NFL series on Nickelodeon and Paramount+, [202] NFL Slimetime, [203] [204] hosted by Nate Burleson [205] and Dylan Gilmer. [206] It began airing on September 15, [ 207 ] and would air Wednesdays at 7 p.m. throughout the NFL season.
The NFL has beaten back other significant rival football leagues, often placing expansion or relocation teams in those cities following that league's demise: the World Football League of 1974–1975 (the NFL added two teams in 1975), the United States Football League of 1983–1985 (the NFL relocated one team to a USFL market in 1988), and the ...
The game had a then-NHL-record crowd of 71,217 fans in attendance. The success of the 2008 NHL Winter Classic led the NHL to schedule a second one for 2009, held at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, on January 1, 2009, matching the Detroit Red Wings against the Chicago Blackhawks. That game had the highest American television ratings of any ...