It's worth quickly revisiting the history of NFLN. When the owners decided to launch it in 2006, the whole idea was to eventually put games on it. It was sold to the owners on the theory that carriage rights would be worth more than if the league had put the games up for competitive bid. The problem was that, when the games started airing, the NFL effectively created a second right package that included the games (with a significant price increase), since the original deals all specifically said there were no live games included. The cable companies hedged, and while everyone eventually went to the game package, the league didn't make as much as they estimated they would have in a competitive bid (and dealt with a bunch of legal crap as well). This truly pissed off the owners, who felt they were sold a bill of goods by the league. The league effectively had to justify its existence with owners on a regular basis because of this.
Here we are, 10 years later, and the league now has the best of both worlds: they get the rights fees from the networks *and* they get the carriage fees from the cable companies. I think the owners are satiated. On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 2:21 PM Wesley (in Colorado) <[email protected]> wrote: > Almost as good, a PR article from NFL.com which confirms the nets keep it > for consecutive weeks; CBS first then NBC. > > http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000630862/article/nfl-expands-thursday-night-football-package > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 7:53 PM, Bob Jersey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Variety >> <http://variety.com/2016/biz/news/thursday-night-football-nfl-1201684945/> >> (link), reportedly quoting an update from the WSJ, is saying the deal is >> done, and the nets involved get to keep their games in consecutive weeks... >> actual Joinal subbers are welcome to confirm/refute. >> >> B >> > -- > Wesley McGee > http://www.ambivi.com > http://sterlingnorth.typepad.com > http://drawing-a-blank.tumblr.com > > Twitter: @westwit > G+: http://plus.google.com/113413697748381364954 > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wesleymcgee > > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
