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NFL Network agrees to simulcast Patriots/Giants game on three networks
It’ll be the first time in history an NFL game has been broadcast on more than two networks:
NEW YORK (CBS) ― 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.
“We have taken this extraordinary step because it is in the best interest of our fans,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said. “What we have seen for the past year is a very strong consumer demand for NFL Network. We appreciate CBS and NBC delivering the NFL Network telecast on Saturday night to the broad audience that deserves to see this potentially historic game. Our commitment to the NFL Network is stronger than ever.”
Game time Saturday is 8:15 pm ET. The game will be played at Giants Stadium.
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Will we be forced to listen to the dour Bryant Gumbel
on all 3 networks for the Giants/Pats game?
Not really
The first Super Bowl was on NBC and CBS, although you can argue that the matchup was NFL-AFL. Still it was an NFL game.
Oops my bad. You said more than TWO networks. You are 100% right on that score. I apologize for misreading
The only word that comes to mind is “YAAAAY!”
Chuck! Bite your tongue! You shouldn’t be mentioning that name during this Christmas Season!
Sheesh!
Think Happy Thoughts!
I may stay up to watch the whole game … if it’s a close one. Otherwise I rise at 5AM to get to work on Sunday. Ugh!
Do I understand some of you think the NFL’s decision to simulcast the game is a “good” thing? Perhaps you need to reread the article or at least the parts where the “ALL POWERFUL NFL” has magnanimously decided to allow the little guy an “extraordinary” chance to watch this historic game, “We have taken this extraordinary step because it is in the best interest of our fans” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said. Folks, this isn’t in our best interest, it’s the NFLs’ way of saying things are about to change. Make no mistake about it, we are being given notice, that very soon you will have the NFL network, in addition to your regular cable bill, or you won’t watch pro football. Is the next step the NBA network, the MLB ? He goes on, “We appreciate CBS and NBC delivering the NFL Network telecast on Saturday night to the broad audience that deserves to see this potentially historic game. Our commitment to the NFL Network is stronger than ever.” Sad fact, even the criminal prices the NFL charges the fan in the stands to attend a game or the insane amounts advertisers pay, simply don’t generate the funds, believe it or not!, that these idiot team owners need to support the obscene payrolls they agree to.
What Goodell said:
“We have taken this extraordinary step because it is in the best interest of our fans.”
What Goodell meant:
“We have taken this extraordinary step because it is in the best interest of the NFL.”
What It All means:
Next year, Goodell (and remember the whole network was Tagliabue’s idea–not his), will make a deal with the recalcitrant cable networks, just like Bud Selig did when he decided to start an MLB network. Comcast and Time Warner will get a piece of the network, it will then appear on their basic tiers, and they will get the rights to air the on demand football package now seen only on the satellite networks. That was what “Big Cable” was really holding out for, anyway. Of course, since it will go to basic, they’ll probably raise their monthly rates. Duh . . .
Yes, CBS and NBC will pick up the NFL net telecasts, so we’ll all have to put up with Bryant Gumbel.
Or not:
To avoid Bryant Gumbel: Westwood 1 radio will be broadcasting the game nation-wide, presumably with Dick Enberg or another big name doing the broadcast.
In the northeast, radio outlets that usually pick up the Sunday or Monday night broadcasts from the local Patriot or Giants stations will no doubt do so.
So click on the TV, turn down the sound, and turn up your radios.
Notes and asides: Note that NBC and CBS, whose Saturday prime time telecasts normally consist of “Rerun Theatre,” as the Washington Post’s Reporter Who Covers Television, Lisa de Moraes, snarks, are picking up the game. Fox, which normally has “Cops” and “America’s Most Wanted,” will counter-program with those. Also, do not expect a great game. The Giants are headed for a playoff game with Tampa Bay the following week, and I doubt Coach Coughlin will risk injuries to his regulars. As for Tom Brady: who knows how long Coach Hoodie will play him, even though the Pats have a bye the first week of the playoffs.
This is something I’ve never done before…but this is one Cowboys’ fan who will be rooting for NC Cop’s Giants to win this one.
ML, I am already forced to pay a little extra on my cable bill to get TNT in order to catch Laker games. Basically, I am forced to upgrade to a package that gets me 50 more stations, just to get TNT and a few others that carry the Laker games that aren’t on my local KCAL 9.
Some of the stations I am forced to subscribe to in the package are in other languages which I will never watch. Some are stations that I can’t stand like MSNBC. I’m not happy that we will have to pay extra to watch sports in the future.
But, maybe it would make more sense for me to just pay for my basic 13 stations, and then pick and choose which extra channels I want, instead of being forced to pay for others viewing habits.
Go Pats!!!
Thanks buddy!!! Start praying now because I have a feeling that nothing short of a full blown miracle is going to save the Giants on Sat. I shall root for them until I am blue, NY Giants blue that is, however I do not think this one’s going to be pretty.
New England does not have a good relationship with the NY teams and unless they sit Brady and alot of their starters, it could be a blowout.
GO G-MEN!!!!
I’m rooting for NY also. Partly because it’s NC’s team, and partly because John Kerry is a Patriots fan.
NC, at some point in the future, I won’t ask you to root for the Raiders, but I may ask you to root for the Lakers.
Maybe against the Boston Celtics in the finals in the near future?
G-Monster,
Remember when Bill Press almost single handedly took down Channel 13?
Consider it done!!!!
PCD…I can’t stand Bill Press. I don’t remember the incident you refer to, but I know everytime I’ve accidentally caught Bill Press on my television he has gotten under my skin like very few people can do.