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NFL Network in talks with ESPN
- 2008-06-22
For years, they have circled and jabbed at each other like the heavyweights they are. In one corner, the NFL - considered the gold standard of American sports fare, where ad revenues are as eye-popping as the open-field hits. In the other, Comcast - the Philadelphia-based cable giant that had...
NFL Network, ESPN discuss a partnership
- 2008-06-21
NEW YORK AP -- The NFL Network and Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN are in talks about forming a partnership, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. A deal could end a long standoff between the league and cable carriers, some of whom said the NFL was asking them to...
On draft day, networks, Billick score
- 2008-04-28
NEW YORK -- While NFL teams need years to figure out if they drafted well this weekend, the picks can already celebrate -- like Brian Billick. Fox will formally announce today that the ex-Baltimore Ravens coach, who debuted as a national TV analyst on the NFL...
Carter replacing Salisbury as ESPN football analyst
- 2008-02-27
ESPN said late Tuesday that it was parting ways with longtime football analyst Sean Salisbury. The surprise announcement came hours after the network announced its hiring of Cris Carter from HBO's Inside the NFL. "Sean Salisbury has made many contributions to our efforts for the past...
NFL was wise to expand Pats-Giants broadcast
- 2007-12-28
The NFL is making much of the "unprecedented" telecast of Saturday's Patriots-at-Giants game -- so designated because it will be carried on not one, not two, but three different channels. (The NFL Network, CBS and NBC.) Wow! A football game carried live on three different channels!...
Most network analysts criticize NFL's game in London
- 2007-10-29
Usually, the sun never sets on NFL games in the league's early-afternoon Sunday time slot. But it did in London on the New York Giants-Miami Dolphins game, which NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell -- popping up on Fox's third-quarter coverage -- announced had "exceeded all expectations." If...
Clash of the Titans: Cable industry rebels against NFL's new channel
- 2007-08-22
As football season approaches, the cable industry is gang- tackling the fledgling NFL Network created by the powerful National Football League. Comcast subscribers in Utah and across the nation have had the NFL Network yanked from their homes as part of a bitter battle. The NFL tried to...
Networks take bold steps to offer new vantage points
- 2007-07-11
Over the last two nights, we've seen Fox contributor Eric Byrnes and ESPN's Kenny Mayne paddle around McCovey Cove in kayaks in search of home run balls at Major League Baseball's Home Run Derby and 78th All-Star Game from San Francisco. In the future, ESPN would...
Seeing nothing of the mighty Quinn dominated draft-day drama
- 2007-04-30
There will always be "durability issues" and "statement-makers" and "amazing skill sets" discussed on NFL draft-day TV. Even "heavy-legged waist-benders," as NFL Network lead analyst Mike Mayock dubs slow linemen who rely heavily on bending at the waist. But for coverage by ESPN, ESPNews and the...
Networks give their air to draft
- 2007-04-23
Neither ESPN, paying the NFL $1.1 billion annually for its Monday night games, nor the NFL Network, owned by a behemoth league that still can't be above wanting lots of SportsCenter airtime, will call their NFL draft coverage a competition. Well, ESPN executive vice president Norby...
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