CBS to televise 8 Thursday Night Games

[Jims_Doors]

CBS will televise the first 8 and the NFL network will the do the last 8


NEW YORK – The National Football League will team with long-time broadcast partner CBS to produce and televise Thursday Night Football for the 2014 season, it was announced today by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, CBS Corporation President and CEO Leslie Moonves and CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus.

CBS will air eight early season games that also will be simulcast on NFL Network. NFL Network will also televise eight late-season games in the run-up to the playoffs. The mix of games will include 14 on Thursday nights and two late-season games on Saturday.

The full slate of 16 regular-season games will be produced by CBS with its lead broadcasters and production team, including Jim Nantz and Phil Simms, on all Thursday night games. In a new twist, NFL Network hosts and analysts will be featured in the pregame, halftime and postgame shows along with CBS Sports announcers.

The agreement is for the 2014 season with an additional year at the NFL’s option.

“NFL Network built Thursday into a night for NFL fans,” said Goodell. “Our goal is to bring these games to more fans on broadcast television with unprecedented promotion and visibility for Thursday Night Football on CBS.”

http://www.cbspressexpress.com/cbs-sports/releases/view?id=38050

 

[Johnnydollaz89]

Pretty soon CBS will probably have them all. Or weren't they going to do a Thursday night double-header?

 

[MrMoJoRisin63]

I am so unexcited about this. I hate the concept of Thursday night football. I would be more supportive if it took the place of Monday night football. I sort of miss the wait we use to have.

 

[bksballer89]

I am so unexcited about this. I hate the concept of Thursday night football. I would be more supportive if it took the place of Monday night football. I sort of miss the wait we use to have.

I'm very excited about this. I absolutely love it that we now have football 5 out of the 7 days (including NCAAF) during football season

 

[MrMoJoRisin63]

I'm very excited about this. I absolutely love it that we now have football 5 out of the 7 days (including NCAAF) during football season

And that is exactly why it sucks IMO

 

[Johnnydollaz89]

And that is exactly why it sucks IMO

Exactly, overdoing it. Less is more.

 

[Midnightangel]

CBS will televise the first 8 and the NFL network will the do the last 8


NEW YORK – The National Football League will team with long-time broadcast partner CBS to produce and televise Thursday Night Football for the 2014 season, it was announced today by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, CBS Corporation President and CEO Leslie Moonves and CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus.

CBS will air eight early season games that also will be simulcast on NFL Network. NFL Network will also televise eight late-season games in the run-up to the playoffs. The mix of games will include 14 on Thursday nights and two late-season games on Saturday.

The full slate of 16 regular-season games will be produced by CBS with its lead broadcasters and production team, including Jim Nantz and Phil Simms, on all Thursday night games. In a new twist, NFL Network hosts and analysts will be featured in the pregame, halftime and postgame shows along with CBS Sports announcers.

The agreement is for the 2014 season with an additional year at the NFL’s option.

“NFL Network built Thursday into a night for NFL fans,” said Goodell. “Our goal is to bring these games to more fans on broadcast television with unprecedented promotion and visibility for Thursday Night Football on CBS.”

CBS Press Express | NFL PARTNERS WITH CBS ON 2014 THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL PACKAGE

I'm a little surprised in that I didn't think the Thursday night games were doing well enough to warrant someone else paying to air them.

 

[The Derski]

Wow that means i'll be able to watch Thursday night games for once.

 

[Jims_Doors]

I am so unexcited about this. I hate the concept of Thursday night football. I would be more supportive if it took the place of Monday night football. I sort of miss the wait we use to have.

This a great thing for those who don't have NFL Network, NFL league pass or Sunday ticket. You're getting to watch a game that you normally wouldn't be able to see because of being out of market etc....

 

[Jims_Doors]

"Bidding started somewhere north of $200 million for a single season (with an NFL option for a second) and CBS eventually beat out Fox, NBC, ABC/ESPN, and Turner. But it wasn't quite a full package being bid on—of the 16 games, CBS will produce all of them but broadcast just eight, with the NFL Network airing the remainder (and simulcasting the CBS-aired games).

What this means:

More Phil Simms and Jim Nantz. I hope you like them. (You don't.) CBS's lead broadcasting duo will call every game, even the ones on the NFL Network. But NFL Network talent will appear on the pregame, halftime, and postgame shows.

The other networks' Thursday programming is about to get wrecked. Yes, Thursday games tend to be sloppy and boring, and yes, players hate them, but people watch. Despite NFL Network being available in only 72 million homes, Thursday Night Football invariably wins the night on cable, and comes close to the top-rated network shows. On CBS, it will dominate.

The return of Saturday football! Once upon a time not so long ago, when college football's regular season ended, the NFL would air a few late-season games on Saturday night. That's coming back—the contract actually stipulates 14 Thursday games and two Saturday games. December Saturdays will be a bit less dreary.

 

[MrMoJoRisin63]

Exactly, overdoing it. Less is more.

Exactly, its now at a point where I watch less football because they now saturate us with it. I basically watch two games a week. The Notre Dame game on Saturday and Pats on Sunday. I sort of love my wife and don't think its fair to tie up all my weekends and now weeknights with football. Way to selfish a move for me.

 

[broncosmitty]

Wow that means i'll be able to watch Thursday night games for once.

That sucks you don't get NFL Network. IMO, their coverage is second to FOX.

 

[Lonewate44]

It does mean an influx of aprox 7 mil to each teams salary cap coming in 2015.....which will make Jerry and teams tight against it.....feel a lil better

 

[StoningtonQB]

There will be no point of an NFL Network if they don't broadcast games.

I hear people saying that they don't get to watch all of the games. I really can't understand that in this day and age. Clearly you all have computers. And I'm going to assume HDTVs as well. It's really as simple as hooking up an HDMI cable from your laptop or PC to your TV and logging on to wiziwig.tv or dozens of other sites. Even if you don't have an HDTV you still have a PC. I live in CT and the local networks force us to watch the Giants, Jets and the Patriots. And if they are not playing then Indy for some reason or the next closest team. That doesn't work for me. Thankfully it's very easy for me to watch what I WANT instead of what some blowhards decide to force upon me.

 

[wildturkey]

I wonder how this will affect CFB games on ESPN. Obviously it makes it a lot tougher to compete for ratings. Will they step up and put more attractive games on or just give up and toss out two AAC teams.

 

[Cobiemonster]

I'm glad CBS is taking over these games - the NFL Network broadcasts were awful - not a Mike Mayock fan

 

[R.J. MacReady]

I have yet to see one good argument of why it made sense all of these years to have the country's most popular sport play most of it's games all at the same time. It's the right move to break it up as much as you can.

And in my eye's it's still broke until they give the NFL Sunday Ticket to all service providers and not just one. Or at least make Direct TV give non account holders the option to pay for an app to watch games on their phones and computers.

 

[Wazmankg]

I'm a little surprised in that I didn't think the Thursday night games were doing well enough to warrant someone else paying to air them.

If true that probably had a lot to do with the fact that many don't have the NFL Network. I didn't until I switched my service awhile back.

 

[Wazmankg]

I have yet to see one good argument of why it made sense all of these years to have the country's most popular sport play most of it's games all at the same time. It's the right move to break it up as much as you can.

And in my eye's it's still broke until they give the NFL Sunday Ticket to all service providers and not just one. Or at least make Direct TV give non account holders the option to pay for an app to watch games on their phones and computers.

This ! ^^ I don't get those who claim to be NFL fans who think it's on too frequently. If it bothers you don't watch the damn games for cryin' out loud.

 

[MrMoJoRisin63]

I have yet to see one good argument of why it made sense all of these years to have the country's most popular sport play most of it's games all at the same time. It's the right move to break it up as much as you can.

And in my eye's it's still broke until they give the NFL Sunday Ticket to all service providers and not just one. Or at least make Direct TV give non account holders the option to pay for an app to watch games on their phones and computers.

Not that any of us here have to provide you with a good argument but I can tell you why it was set up like it was. Back in the day prior to TiVo and DVR people worked and worked hard, games during the week were kicking off at 9 PM EST this of course was done to please the lefties. This kick off time meant a midnight bed time if you wanted to watch the game. Of course during the course of the game fans were consuming copious amounts of beer and foods which were not conducive to a good nights rest. So fans were falling asleep about 12:45 to 1:00am. Of course they needed to wake at 4:00 am to get to the worksite. Now sleepy, hung over and still slightly drunk the fan of the Monday night game hopped into his crane, while lifting a cargo trailer off the ship at the local docks the fan falls asleep at the controls and drops the cargo on the unsuspecting sober, well rested non participants of the Monday night game killing nine. But the lefties are well rested and sober, but of course they don't do manual labor on the left coast they are all to soft of lazy for that type work. I

In today's world it makes a little more sense we have TiVo and DVRs but we are required to go to work on Tuesday morning, so we come to work log into SportsHoopla and some over zealous poster has posted the results of the game in every thread he posts in, mostly because he is a blind homer incapable of not boasting of his teams victory. Of course those of us who recorded and rested inadvertently open that thread thus rendering the DVR and pending result of the game useless.

If that's not enough there is the pussy factor, there are those of who like to get laid on occasion, this of course requires some give and take from the wife who is now tired and fed up football all day Saturday, all day Sunday, Monday night and Thursday night. So fed up she starts boinking the geek from Best Buy that installed the Hi Def TV with surround sound because your not giving her any attention thus begins the process of your messy divorce. The kids don't understand why daddy isn't home anymore and become juvenile delinquents and begin randomly knocking out teachers in school, they end up in juvenile detention centers and are soon raped by some sick guard and while there assholes are aching the ex wife can't stop talking about what an asshole of a husband you were. You develop a bad rep and lose all your friends you use to watch the games with. Now unmarried, no friends and a son forced into homosexuality all becomes to much for you to bare. You grab the 12 gauge and blow your brains out only to be found naked from the waste down with a T-Shirt on that reads proud member of the NRA. Of course that means no more football for you which you could have avoided from the outset.