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• Trench Warfare in the NFL.(NFL Network plans sports programs)(Tony Kornheiser on Monday Night Football.)(ratings of television networks)

  - 2006-08-28

  By Ben Grossman Kornheiser, flex scheduling and NFL Network are this season's flashpoints As the NFL season prepares to kick off this week, TV rights to the games themselves are being passed around like an old...

  Tags: NFL, game, network, NBC Universal Inc., ESPN, Fox, TV

• The prime time race.(Illustration)

  - 2005-09-26

  THE PRIME TIME RACE Top 10 Basic Cable Shows Sept. 12-18 Total Households in millions PROGRAM ...

  Tags: ESPN, Fox, Nextel Communications Inc., NFL

• The prime time race.(Illustration)

  - 2005-09-19

  THE PRIME TIME RACE Top 10 Basic Cable Shows Sept. 5-11 Total Households in millions PROGRAM ...

  Tags: ESPN, Fox, NFL

• No NFL? No ESPN rival: Fox biz, reality nets still on tap, says Murdoch.(National Football League, Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, Rupert Murdoch )

  - 2005-02-07

  Rupert Murdoch said his expanding TV empire is open to buying back a portion of the voting shares in News Corp. owned by Liberty Media Corp.--but he wouldn't break the bank to get those shares back. With the Liberty negotiations in flux,...

  Tags: entertainment, ESPN, Fox, Liberty Media Corp., network, News Corp., NFL, Rupert Murdoch

• No NFL? No ESPN Rival (Multichannel News)

  - 2005-02-07

  Fox Biz, Reality Nets Still On Tap, Says Murdoch Fox Biz, Reality Nets Still On Tap, Says Murdoch

  Tags: ESPN, Fox, NFL

• The prime time race.(Programming)(the top cable television programs are ranked for the week of 12/15/03 through 12/21/03)(Illustration)

  - 2004-01-05

  THE PRIME TIME RACE Top 10 Basic Cable Shows Dec. 15-21 Total Households in millions PROGRAM DATE ...

  Tags: NFL, ESPN, Fox, NBC Universal Inc., cable, cable television, programming, TV

• ESPN, Basic Cable Big Nov. Winners.

  - 1998-12-07

  NEW York -- Juiced by its National Football League package, ESPN edged out USA Network in the November primetime-ratings race. Still, USA surged 10 percent from a year ago, while ESPN was flat. Basic-cable ratings jumped 10.5 percent in primet ...

  Tags: ESPN, Fox, network, NFL

• Networks lose ground on NFL.

  - 1998-10-05

  Fox, ABC, ESPN suffer ratings declines; some blame baseball's late-season resurgence For the first month of the NFL season, the TV picture isn't good: Ratings are down and advertising is soft. And baseball's resurgence may be part of the prob ...

  Tags: NFL, ABC Inc., network, baseball, ESPN, Fox, game, NBC Universal Inc.

• NFL huddles over rights: team owners prepare for negotiations.(Brief Article)

  - 1997-10-20

  Team owners prepare for negotiations National Football League owners met this past week in Washington to discuss labor issues, but television insiders speculate that most of the talk centered on the upcoming broadcast rights negotiations. ...

  Tags: ESPN, Fox, negotiation, NFL, team

• Going once, twice...; bidding by TV nets for NFL, NBA and other big-league sports rights could be fierce. (includes related article on sports advertising revenue)(TV Sports Rights)(Cover Story)

  - 1997-04-28

  The upcoming TV rights negotiations between the National Football League and the television networks will favor the incumbents more than in previous years. Current rights holders--Fox, ABC, NBC, ESPN and TNT--will pay more to avoid the experience The upcoming TV rights negotiations...

  Tags: NFL, Fox, NBA, NBC Universal Inc., network, cable, ESPN, incumbent, TV, advertisement