Posted on 01/03/2018 7:06:34 AM PST by 11th_VA
Hope you can wait till 2022 cause that’s when the tv contracts are up,
The NFL’s gravy train rolls on: today it announced nine-year extensions to its broadcast television packages with Fox, NBC and CBS under which the networks are expected to pay roughly 60% more. The new agreements will run through the 2022 season as the current deals expire after the 2013 season.
Each network gets the rights to three Super Bowls and NBC maintains its flexible schedule on Sunday nights during the second half of the season. NBC will also add the Thanksgiving primetime game starting in 2014.
Financial terms have not been released, but the three networks are expected to pay roughly $3 billion a year on average annually compared to the current $1.93 billion they collectively pay. ESPN re-upped its deal with the NFL earlier this year at an annual rate of $1.9 billion. Factor in other media deals with the NFL Network, DirectTV ($1 billion annually), Westwood One radio and others, and NFL teams will divvy up nearly $7 billion in media money starting in 2014. That is more than $200 million per team every year before one ticket, beer or jersey is sold.
Thank you! Like the old saying goes: “If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything”.
I take comfort in the fact that I am not alone in this. The FNFL is engineering their own demise and I won’t lift a finger to stop them.
NFL = National Football LeagueNFL = National Felon League
NFL = Not For Long
NFL = No Fans Left
There was already talk of discontinuing Thursday night football.
Monday night football may go away as well, OR the league may consider their own NFL network and do it themselves............
I never said the demise is near, and I am not the one who posted the article. I was merely pointing out what the original poster’s intent was.
And as far as waiting lists for NFL season tickets, well, it’s a country of over 300 million people...look at how many actually voted for Hillary, too.
meanwhile cities pony up a billion here a billion there for stadiums for these teams/.
Keep those Super Bowl and NFL playoff ratings handy.
Let’s see what this year’s numbers look like.
I am boycotting all of them and I watched all of them in 2017.
You are the only one who cares if you watch football, you are the only one that is affected by you not watching football. I do not let a few liberals and their bullshit ruin my entertainment. If you don’t like it tough shit.
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