The W
June 7, 2009 - birthdaybritney.jpg
Views: 179013126
Main | FAQ | Search: Y! / G | Calendar | Color chart | Log in for more!
28.3.24 1038
The W - Football - New TV deals announced
This thread has 5 referrals leading to it
Register and log in to post!
Thread rated: 6.77
Pages: 1
(425 newer) Next thread | Previous thread
User
Post (12 total)
odessasteps
Scrapple








Since: 2.1.02
From: MD, USA

Since last post: 3571 days
Last activity: 3538 days
#1 Posted on | Instant Rating: 5.03
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2011/12/new-nfl-tv-deals-bonanza/1

Among highlights:

NBC gets prime time Thanksgiving game

possible flexing between networks

ESPN may get a wild card game

pregame show on NBCSports (aka VERSUS)



Mark Coale
Odessa Steps Magazine presents


RUSSIAN FLAG BURIAL - an examination of 1984 mid-south


Promote this thread!
It's False
Scrapple








Since: 20.6.02
From: I am the Tag Team Champions!

Since last post: 2199 days
Last activity: 581 days
#2 Posted on | Instant Rating: 6.51
I'm saddened that ESPN hasn't tried to negotiate for an option to flex games. That Rams/Seahawks atrocity should never be allowed to happen again.




"This is bad comedy."
odessasteps
Scrapple








Since: 2.1.02
From: MD, USA

Since last post: 3571 days
Last activity: 3538 days
#3 Posted on | Instant Rating: 5.03
I think the one day difference is the impedimemt.

It would be quite the.logistical nightmare, in terms of air and hotel, for teams and fans, to change from sunday to monday or vice versa.



Mark Coale
Odessa Steps Magazine presents


RUSSIAN FLAG BURIAL - an examination of 1984 mid-south


thecubsfan
Scrapple
Moderator








Since: 10.12.01
From: Aurora, IL

Since last post: 947 days
Last activity: 328 days
#4 Posted on | Instant Rating: 9.64

    pregame show on NBCSports (aka VERSUS)


I totally understand why they would do this, but that means there are now FIVE pre-game shows: NBC Sports, ESPN, Fox, CBS and NFL Network. And that doesn't include the fantasy pre-game show on ESPN2 and the NFL.com one that airs on the Red Zone channel. I think NFL fans are pretty well served already, maybe a bit overserved.


    I'm saddened that ESPN hasn't tried to negotiate for an option to flex games.


I'd bet they have, but couldn't get it done. Or they just prioritized getting a wild card game.



thecubsfan.com - luchablog
JayJayDean
Scrapple








Since: 2.1.02
From: Seattle, WA

Since last post: 2985 days
Last activity: 2562 days
#5 Posted on | Instant Rating: 7.97
    Originally posted by thecubsfan

      I'm saddened that ESPN hasn't tried to negotiate for an option to flex games.


    I'd bet they have, but couldn't get it done. Or they just prioritized getting a wild card game.


You can't flex the Monday night games. Peter King summed up it pretty well on Monday.

• ESPN flex. Many of you have emailed and Tweeted to ask why ESPN doesn't have the same kind of flex schedule. Answer: It's just impractical. It's one thing to move a game back four or seven hours to Sunday night. It's another to move a game, 12 days prior to it, 31 hours back. The hotels, the airplanes, the plans, the fans (inconvenienced enough by the movement from day to night and vice versa) ... It's just too much.



Holy fuck shit motherfucker shit. Read comics. Fuck shit shit fuck shit I sold out when I did my job. Fuck fuck fuck shit fuck. Sorry had to do it....

*snip*

Revenge of the Sith = one thumb up from me. Fuck shit. I want to tittie fuck your ass.
-- The Guinness. to Cerebus
thecubsfan
Scrapple
Moderator








Since: 10.12.01
From: Aurora, IL

Since last post: 947 days
Last activity: 328 days
#6 Posted on | Instant Rating: 9.64
in the big picture: People are willing to adjust to very impractical things with the right inducement, whether it's money or giving up certain rights or whatever.

in the small picture: The NFL and ESPN knew Jackonsville/San Diego wouldn't be a very good game weeks ago, and knew Seattle/St. Louis wouldn't be any good months ago. 12 might not be enough time to handle a Sunday->Monday (or Monday->Sunday), but if it's Week 5 and you're pretty sure the game in Week 15 looks pretty bad, shouldn't 2+ months be enough time to change plans?

Flex scheduling for MNF would be very inconvenient for all involved and would cause many headaches, but it's not physically impossible. Thursday night football (without flex scheduling) causes all sorts of headaches, and they still added because it was important to the NFL. If MNF flex scheduling is or became that important, they could do it too.

The real problem is ESPN caused it's own problems by not demanding a stronger package of games in the MNF contract - I'm about one chapter away from the end of ESPN book, and it's pretty clear in there that they messed up and were just desperate for whatever scraps the NFL would give them. The NFL could better the situation by not loading the MNF schedule up with so many B & C level teams and just hoping they play up to their level.



thecubsfan.com - luchablog
TheOldMan
Landjager








Since: 13.2.03
From: Chicago

Since last post: 3285 days
Last activity: 1497 days
#7 Posted on | Instant Rating: 5.64
    Originally posted by thecubsfan
    The real problem is ESPN caused it's own problems by not demanding a stronger package of games in the MNF contract - I'm about one chapter away from the end of ESPN book, and it's pretty clear in there that they messed up and were just desperate for whatever scraps the NFL would give them. The NFL could better the situation by not loading the MNF schedule up with so many B & C level teams and just hoping they play up to their level.


CBS, FOX and NBC - pay an average of $1.03 billion per year for their packages.

ESPN - pays $1.8 billion a year for it's perenially crappy scraps. But they can just charge every cable household an extra $2 per month next year.



hansen9j
Andouille








Since: 7.11.02
From: Riderville, SK

Since last post: 115 days
Last activity: 115 days
#8 Posted on | Instant Rating: 8.59
    Originally posted by thecubsfan
    The real problem is ESPN caused it's own problems by not demanding a stronger package of games in the MNF contract - I'm about one chapter away from the end of ESPN book, and it's pretty clear in there that they messed up and were just desperate for whatever scraps the NFL would give them. The NFL could better the situation by not loading the MNF schedule up with so many B & C level teams and just hoping they play up to their level.
For sure, but that was one contract negotiation ago; they re-upped earlier this year for the same shit sandwich.

(The new contract does allow for playoffs, but my understanding is that that triggers a gigantic further payment from ESPN.)



The Big Bossman raised the briefcase.

Go Pack Go! (13-0, 1st NFC North)
Let's Go Riders! (5-13. At least we got the #1 pick; can we draft Andrew Luck?)

Support my Movember moustache at Movember.com. Daily photos posted!
odessasteps
Scrapple








Since: 2.1.02
From: MD, USA

Since last post: 3571 days
Last activity: 3538 days
#9 Posted on | Instant Rating: 5.03
I don't remember where I saw it, but ESPN's carriage fee is dramatically higher than any other cable channel.

edit: ESPN's estimated carriage fee is in the neighborhood of $4.50/subscriber/month (the next highest for cable networks is closer to $1). (tvbythenumbers)

(edited by odessasteps on 15.12.11 1443)


Mark Coale
Odessa Steps Magazine presents


RUSSIAN FLAG BURIAL - an examination of 1984 mid-south


Big Bad
Scrapple








Since: 4.1.02
From: Dorchester, Ontario

Since last post: 1927 days
Last activity: 1496 days
#10 Posted on | Instant Rating: 5.70
The thing is, though, it's obviously hard for the NFL and ESPN to predict which teams are going to be good and which aren't. Some scheduling is obvious (why in the hell did Jacksonville, of all teams, get two MNF games?) but really, not only must you pick 'good' teams, you also have to have the luck to get them at the right time of year.

A game like San Diego/Kansas City, for instance, fell just at the right time on the MNF schedule when both those teams were contending and the game theoretically meant a lot to the AFC West race. Plus, it ended up being a hell of a game.

It hasn't been *that* big a disaster of a year for ESPN. SD/KC was great, NY/NO was a big game, Chicago/Detroit was big, Dallas/Washington carried importance early in the season, they only got stuck with the Colts once and the last two Monday nighters (San Fran/Pittburgh and Atlanta/New Orleans) are beauties.



"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." --- Bart Giamatti, on baseball
odessasteps
Scrapple








Since: 2.1.02
From: MD, USA

Since last post: 3571 days
Last activity: 3538 days
#11 Posted on | Instant Rating: 5.03
nyt article about espn and carriage fees

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/business/media/for-pay-tv-clients-a-steady-diet-of-sports.html?_r=2&hp=&pagewanted=allhttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/business/media/for-pay-tv-clients-a-steady-diet-of-sports.html?_r=2&hp=&pagewanted=all



Mark Coale
Odessa Steps Magazine presents


RUSSIAN FLAG BURIAL - an examination of 1984 mid-south


Lexus
Andouille








Since: 2.1.02
From: Stafford, VA

Since last post: 1462 days
Last activity: 209 days
#12 Posted on | Instant Rating: 7.28
    Originally posted by Big Bad
    (why in the hell did Jacksonville, of all teams, get two MNF games?)


Maybe the it has something to do with preventing media black-outs for Jaguars games?



"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Frown and the world laughs at you."
-Me.
Thread rated: 6.77
Pages: 1
Thread ahead: AP Done for a while.
Next thread: 2011-2012 Week 15 NFL playoff seedings
Previous thread: Cocaine's a helluva drug.
(425 newer) Next thread | Previous thread
If the Pats got lucky, then what did the Broncos get when Richard Seymour was added to the injured list on game-day, and the referees tried as hard as they could to HAND the game to the Broncos, with no-call after no-call on them, while keeping the str...
- kazhayashi81, NFL Playoff seedings after week 9 (2003)
Related threads: Midseason thoughts - The Suck 4 Luck Standings: Week 8 - Fantasy Draft - More...
The W - Football - New TV deals announcedRegister and log in to post!

The W™ message board

ZimBoard
©2001-2024 Brothers Zim

This old hunk of junk rendered your page in 0.181 seconds.