December 26, 200718 yr Patriots' historic game to be available to all of America, after all Associated Press NEW YORK -- The New England Patriots' shot at history Saturday night will be available for every household in the country with a television after months of wrangling. The game against the New York Giants, in which the Patriots could become the first NFL team to go 16-0 in the regular season, was originally scheduled to be shown only on the NFL Network, which is available in fewer than 40 percent of the nation's homes with TVs. But the league announced Wednesday that the NFL Network feed will be simulcast on NBC and CBS. It's a major concession by league officials, who repeatedly said they would not show the game anywhere but the NFL Network. The NFL had faced mounting pressure from politicians in recent weeks to make the game available to more viewers. This will be the first three-network simulcast in NFL history and the first simulcast of any kind of an NFL game since the first Super Bowl in 1967, when CBS and NBC both televised the first meeting of the champions of the newly merged National Football League and American Football League. Gee, now I can watch this game on 6 different channels! My guide counts NFL Network (Dish 154), NFL Network HD (DishHD 154), WBBH 20 (NBC), WBBH-DT 20.1 (NBC-HD), WINK 11 (CBS), & WINK-DT 11.1 (CBS-HD) The NFL is getting really carried away, but at least everyone can now see the game.
December 26, 200718 yr Author I can imagine Jerry Jones hurling a picture of Bill Parcels off his wall and at the speaker phone in his office during that conference call.
December 27, 200718 yr Author Good, now the whole country can watch the Patriots lose. with Bryant Gumble bumbling names the whole way on the 2 major broadcast networks he once worked for.
December 27, 200718 yr Sucks this is the NFLN game that gets put on regular TV when far more people wanted to watch the Packers-Cowboys game. Besides, the Pats would have to win 3 more games after this to be perfect.
December 27, 200718 yr I think it's a smart move by the NFL Network. IMO, they do the best job of anyone in covering a game. With the exception of Gumbel, who's a tool.
December 27, 200718 yr Patriots' historic game to be available to all of America, after all Associated Press NEW YORK -- The New England Patriots' shot at history Saturday night will be available for every household in the country with a television after months of wrangling. The game against the New York Giants, in which the Patriots could become the first NFL team to go 16-0 in the regular season, was originally scheduled to be shown only on the NFL Network, which is available in fewer than 40 percent of the nation's homes with TVs. But the league announced Wednesday that the NFL Network feed will be simulcast on NBC and CBS. It's a major concession by league officials, who repeatedly said they would not show the game anywhere but the NFL Network. The NFL had faced mounting pressure from politicians in recent weeks to make the game available to more viewers. This will be the first three-network simulcast in NFL history and the first simulcast of any kind of an NFL game since the first Super Bowl in 1967, when CBS and NBC both televised the first meeting of the champions of the newly merged National Football League and American Football League. Gee, now I can watch this game on 6 different channels! My guide counts NFL Network (Dish 154), NFL Network HD (DishHD 154), WBBH 20 (NBC), WBBH-DT 20.1 (NBC-HD), WINK 11 (CBS), & WINK-DT 11.1 (CBS-HD) The NFL is getting really carried away, but at least everyone can now see the game. the question i have why two network their could have use nbc or cbs but not both i bet fox network say why not use!!!!!!!
December 27, 200718 yr Author the question i have why two network their could have use nbc or cbs but not both i bet fox network say why not use!!!!!!! News Corp is not happy with the NFL right now. 1. FOX says it was not invited while the NFL says FOX did not show any interest. 2. WWOR-TV in NYC is owned by News Corp and it had bought the rights to simulcast NFL Network for this game. (News Corp previously spent $700,000 to buy the rights to simulcast NFL Network for the Bears game in Chicago) http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/gia...0,3443585.story
December 27, 200718 yr That will be 5 channels that will be showing this game on my cable company on Saturday night Buffalo's CBS and NBC affiliates State College's CBS and NBC affiliates NFLN Make that 9 with HD channels.
December 27, 200718 yr Author That will be 5 channels that will be showing this game on my cable company on Saturday night Buffalo's CBS and NBC affiliates State College's CBS and NBC affiliates NFLN Make that 9 with HD channels. I'm up to 7. NBC: WBBH/WBBH-HD CBS: WINK/WINK-HD NFL Network: SD 154/HD 154 WWOR (NYC): SD 238 This is getting out of hand IMHO.
December 27, 200718 yr here in miami we see on ch 4 ch 6 and nfl network that too many channel you going see same thing on both channel guys from nfl network
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