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This is a list of active NFL broadcasters, including those for each individual team as well as those that have national rights. Unlike the other three major professional sports leagues in the U.S. (Major League Baseball, the NBA and the NHL), all regular-season and post-season games are shown on American television on one of the national networks.
In January 2014, reports surfaced that the NFL was shopping a selection of up to eight games from its Thursday Night Football package to other broadcasters, including the league's existing broadcast partners, along with Turner Sports. While the league was seeking either a cable or broadcast outlet, they were strongly considering the latter.
National television broadcasts of the National Football League (NFL) first aired on ESPN in 1980, when the network broadcast the 1980 NFL draft. ESPN did not air live NFL games until 1987, when it acquired the rights to Sunday Night Football. In 2006, ESPN lost the rights to Sunday Night Football and began airing Monday Night Football (MNF ...
The NFL will also see action on Friday night, when the Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles face off in the league's first ever game in Brazil. The game will air exclusively on Peacock and is ...
Roger Goodell, National Football League Commissioner since 2006 (pictured in 2012) At the corporate level, the National Football League considers itself a trade association made up of and financed by its 32 member teams. [65] Up until 2015, the league was an unincorporated nonprofit 501(c)(6) association. [66]
Satellite trucks broadcasting from Super Bowl XXXV.National Football League broadcasts are among the most-watched programs on American television. The television rights to broadcast National Football League (NFL) games in the United States are the most lucrative and expensive rights of any sport in the world.
In other markets, stations who are the affiliates of MyNetworkTV or The CW (and, in at least one case, an independent station [2]) have out bid more established local broadcasters in some markets. However, the home team's market must be completely served by the station and that broadcast can only air if the game is sold out within 72 hours of ...
The Sports Broadcasting Act was passed in response to a U.S. District Court decision which ruled that the National Football League's method of negotiating television broadcasting rights violated antitrust laws. [2] [3] The court ruled that the "pooling" of rights by all the teams to conclude an exclusive contract between the league and CBS was ...