NFL Network to air eight regular-season games

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>NEW YORK -- The NFL Network will broadcast eight prime-time games on Thursdays and Saturdays beginning next season.The eight-game package, announced by commissioner Paul Tagliabue on Saturday, will begin with a game on Thanksgiving night. All of the games also will be shown on local stations in the teams' home markets. The package was created by taking Saturday and Sunday games that originally would have been shown by the league's broadcast partners or on their regional telecasts.The league runs the 2-year-old NFL Network, which is in about 40 million homes. The addition of games to its lineup almost assuredly will increase that number.The league also has lucrative deals with CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN and DirecTV."After discussing this new package of games with many potential partners, we decided it would be best presented on our own, high-quality NFL Network, which has developed so rapidly that the time had come to add live regular-season games to the programming," Tagliabue said. "In the end, we wanted these games on our network, which is devoted 24/7 to the sport of football, and not on a multi-sport network."ESPN is paying $1.1 billion annually over eight years to broadcast the Monday night games. NBC has a six-year, $3.6 billion deal for the Sunday night package. CBS and Fox are paying a total of $8 billion over six years for the rights to Sunday afternoon games. DirecTV agreed to pay $3.5 billion for a five-year extension that runs through 2010.</div>http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2309549
     
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    How the hell do you get NFL Network? Does it cost extra money or is it supposed to just come with your normal cable? A lot of my friends have it but I don't...
     
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    I have NFL Network with my digital cable [​IMG]
     
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    yupim glad, I hope i can get to watch more than 2 Vikings game next season..
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (JHair @ Jan 28 2006, 02:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>How the hell do you get NFL Network? Does it cost extra money or is it supposed to just come with your normal cable? A lot of my friends have it but I don't...</div><span style="color:#993399">Comcast Cable has it, but Time Warner does not. DirecTV and The Dish Network also carry it.</span>
     
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    Its free with DirecTV which I got. This is great news.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><span style="color:#993399">Comcast Cable has it, but Time Warner does not. DirecTV and The Dish Network also carry it.</span></div>Ya I have Comcast but it doesn't come with my plan, but I have all the extra channels like HBO and CineMax.I don't know why I dont get it.
     
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    I have NFL Network on my Direct TV.
     
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    Speaking of the NFL on TV, is it true that NBC will be host to Sunday Night Football?
     
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    I got it as well in the Rogers Digital Cable(Canada) for free, I use to have NBA TV, Raptors TV, Leafs TV and NHL TV but their 2 month trials are finished.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Tha.New.Look.Giants. @ Jan 28 2006, 05:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I have NFL Network on my Direct TV.</div>Me too. But I get the free package.
     

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