NFL Offering Free Week of Its Network
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NEW YORK -- The NFL has offered one free week of its network programming to two cable TV operators who do not carry the channel in hopes of breaking a deadlock.
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By SETH SUTEL  NEW YORK - The NFL Network has rejected two proposals from Time Warner Cable that would have allowed New York-area viewers to watch Rutgers and Kansas State in the Texas Bowl.  The NFL Network is carrying that Dec. 28 game, as well as the Dec.
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The season premieres of seven Fox Broadcasting shows will be offered on Apple Inc.'s iTunes store for free in the latest example of TV networks using the Web to create interest in their shows.
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The NFL will air the first of eight live pro football games on its own network on Thanksgiving. But they won't be available to many viewers across the country because the league hasn't reached carriage agreements with several major cable operators.
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It is nearly impossible in Jacksonville, Fla., to ignore the NFL Network, the league's 24-hour network all about itself.
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The National Football League on Monday said it will extend broadcast rights for television networks CBS and FOX to air Sunday afternoon football games through 2011 in deals worth a combined &#36;8 billion.
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By Molly Willow, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Sep. 13--Hope you don't have plans next week: Your television needs you.
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By Bill Bradley, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Dec. 13--So what does NFLN next to the 49ers' TV listing mean? For those who have not heard, that's the NFL Network, where Thursday night's 49ers-Seattle game will be televised.
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When the N.F.L. season opens Thursday night, NBC Sports will resume its relationship with the league, but they aren't doing it for the love of the game.
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FOXBOROUGH - They are not much different from the folks who read the sports pages and call the talk shows. They are football fans and they will watch the games this weekend. Just like you.
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The NFL Network has  expanded its distribution in time for preseason football,  reaching a deal with EchoStar Communications Corp. to expand  carriage on the Dish Network to basic service.
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NEW YORK (Ticker) - CBS and Fox gave the National Football League $8 billion reasons to keep games on free television. The NFL on Monday agreed to six-year contract extensions with CBS and Fox to continue
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The National Football League on Monday said it will extend broadcast rights for television networks CBS and FOX to air Sunday afternoon football games through 2011 in deals worth a combined $8 billion.
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The National Football League will let broadcast networks CBS and NBC air the New England Patriots' bid to finish a perfect regular season this weekend, reversing a plan to air the game nationally only on the sports league's own cable channel.
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(InfoWorld) - On Feb. 5, at about 7 a.m. local time, I'll be watching the Super Bowl. For those of us living in foreign lands where football means a round ball, the NFL doesn't get primetime coverage. Despite growing up as an NFL fan, when I say "football" now to anyone except my mother, I'm talking about soccer. When I watch football on any given weekend, it's the glorious exploits of my beloved Arsenal Football Club I'm enjoying, not those of the New York Giants. During almost 11 years in China, I have slowly seen those vestiges of the U.S. unavailable here in Beijing disappear. The Internet changed the way we live overseas. Letters became e-mails. Amazon.com became the Berlin Airlift to the book-deprived, with CDs and DVDs following soon after. But regular National Football League coverage was one of just two remaining treats that eluded me. That changed on Sept. 13, 2006. On that day, I discovered Ben & Jerry's ice cream at my supermarket, for about $9 per pint. That morning, I watched an NFL game, live via the Internet, in my home. NFL Enterprises embraced the Internet for the 2006-07 season. Previously the NFL did not allow webcasting of its games, except for text and graphic-based commentary such as GameCast. But this year, international fans could buy a GamePass from YahooÂ to view games live and streamed, at either $249.99 for the season, or $24.99 per week. Apple's iTunes Music Store sold season passes for fans to watch their favorite teams, uploading each game after its completion. I took a different route. I downloaded TVUplayer , which seems to be a mass re-broadcast from a Slingbox MediaÂ device in San Jose, California. There was the NFL, complete with American sportscasters and commercials ("This is our country..."). I ignored that it was 8:30 a.m. and made popcorn. I don't understand how TVUplayer is legal, but if they ever become a paid service, they can have my money. ESPN and ABC disappeared midway through the season, so I lost the Sunday and Monday night games that I used to watch on Monday and Tuesday mornings, respectively, but Sunday night remained sleepless as I watched the day games. If living overseas teaches us anything, it's that in the Internet world, content distribution and licensing methods are grossly obsolete. I would have paid to watch the NFL live years ago -- but they wouldn't take my money. Cinema and DVD release dates seem equally ludicrous when you live in a market where they're meaningless. Piracy makes a lot more sense when you realize that the guy down the street can offer you "Casino Royale" on DVD today, but Hollywood thinks you should wait eight months. Next season promises to be even better for football fans here. On Aug. 8 -- exactly one year prior to the opening of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing -- China will host to its first-ever NFL exhibition game, with the New England Patriots playing the Seattle Seahawks. But when the regular season begins about three weeks later, it will be first down and 10 on the Internet.
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By Barry Horn, The Dallas Morning News  Sep. 14--The NFL Network will disappear from Time Warner Cable systems on Friday, said Gary Underwood, the cable provider's spokesman for North Texas.
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For the first time in its history, the National Football League concluded only part of a long-term television deal yesterday, settling its Sunday afternoon packages with Fox and CBS through