National football league TV privileges deals extended through '22

CBS, Fox and NBC have formally extended their privileges handles the National football league through 2022. The brand new contracts, thought to possess a combined value in excess of $3 billion yearly (Variety, 12 ,. 6), run for nine years from 2014 -- a long contracts ever between your league and it is broadcast partners. The 2009 season, the National football league and ESPN arrived at an eight-year extension to help keep "Monday Evening Football" on ESPN with the 2021 season. Not surprisingly, one consequence from the new deals is they will let the National football league to grow its Thursday evening package of games around the National football league Network, for an undetermined number. The nine Super Bowls underneath the deal happen to be split evenly between CBS, NBC and Fox. Super Bowl L, arriving 2016, would go to CBS. NBC will prove to add a Thanksgiving evening game to the sked from 2012, 2 yrs prior to the new contracts work, giving the Peacock 19 regular-season evening games (including 17 Sundays and also the season-opening Thursday). The network can also get the choice to exhibit its games on The spanish language-language internet Telemundo, and can replace among its two wild-games having a divisional playoff game. Furthermore, NBC Sports Network will launch a Sunday morning pregame show from 2014. CBS maintains the American Football Conference package it acquired in 1998, while Fox will remain using the National Football Conference package it's held since 1994. The deals also start to expand an element of flexible arranging that started silently this year: the buying and selling of games between CBS and Fox, when there's an discrepancy between your two. On 12 ,. 4, CBS permitted Fox to televise a game title between Colorado at Minnesota. Specifics on flexible arranging continue to be hammered out. Contact Jon Weisman at jon.weisman@variety.com