On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:02 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Joe Coughlin <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Thursday was never prohibited in the Sports Broadcasting Act. It was >> Saturday (which, I believe, was later extended to Friday, too), The NFL >> always could play on Thursdays. In fact, the first game of the season has >> been held on a Thursday for a few years now. >> > > If these extra Thursday games were to go on the NFL network I think they > would be asking for problems, at least given the current configuration, as > that would result in significantly fewer Americans having access to those > games, which might motivate congress to do something with Title 15 exemption > to anti-trust that the NFL would really not like. If they end up on a widely > available cable outlet they would probably be OK.
The NFL Network games, just as with ESPN Monday Night Football games, have to be made available to a broadcast station in local markets (and Milwaukee for Green Bay). This wouldn't change. I don't see it going to the NFL Network, though, because the league is looking to increase revenues and the early season NFL Thursday games on TNT (pre-basketball season) or Versus (pre-hockey season) gets the league a lot more money than just shipping the games to themselves. And whoever gets the games, pick up Bob Papa. He was the unfortunate victim in the NFL Network's change of the announcing crew. The guy had to put up with Joe Theismann and Matt Millen. Really, anyone who survives that deserves a chance to a decent announcing partner. Yes, I'm a big Giants fan and Papa is their guy. Still, he's a great listen. TVG -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
