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NFL Network, Comcast Reach an Agreement

Posted by srr50 on May 19th, 2009 under Football

The NFL Network settled its fight with Comcast Cable today, giving the channel a huge boost in potential viewers.

Comcast, the nation’s largest cable outlet, started the fight in 2006 when it moved the NFL Network off its basic digital tier to the more expensive sports tier. The NFL Network wanted to boost is price from 15 cents per subscriber to 70 cents. Comcast didn’t think the 8 live games that the NFL Network would be carrying was worth the increase — especially since the NFL also insisted that the network stay on the basic digital tier.

Comcast will pay approximately 40 cents per subscriber for the NFL Network.  The channel will be on the basic digital classic tier on Comcast, which will mean a potential of an additional 8-9 million viewers. Comcast had about 2.5 million viewers on its digital sports tier.

With Tuesday’s settlement, both sides have agreed to drop their lawsuits. And the lower price also makes it more likely that other cable TV service providers, such as Time Warner and Cablevision, will reach deals to carry the NFL Network.

The deal also provides Comcast with the ability to show DirecTV’s Red Zone Channel, a part of the Sunday Ticket satellite package that gives live look-ins to the league’s Sunday afternoon games when teams are inside their opponents’ 20-yard line.

That means that the NFL must also have come to an agrement on an extention with its over-the-air partners through 2013.  Both Fox and CBS have indicated that if the NFL was going to be able to drop in on their games, that they wanted a two-year extention on their current contracts with the NFL.

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  1. Roger Goodell said:

    May 19th, 2009 at 12:16 pm

    I am all that is man!

  2. SizzleChest said:

    May 19th, 2009 at 5:42 pm

    As Verizon FIOS TV is now available to me, I’ve been jockeying with Comcast to get a shot at their best promotional rates. This may settle it offically and keep me with Comcast.

    They are adding ESPNU as well in time for college football season. Huzzah!

  3. SeeingRed said:

    May 20th, 2009 at 4:42 am

    The NFL! Where 8-8 teams in the playoffs happen!

  4. Where 9-7 teams almost win the Super Bowl.

  5. mr. sunshine said:

    May 20th, 2009 at 10:35 am

    Where a title isn’t just handed to the SEC team with the fewest losses.

  6. I am XY not XX; that's the joke/slavic fisherman said:

    May 20th, 2009 at 4:46 pm

    Makes perfect sense 2 me!

  7. Brother Beyond said:

    May 20th, 2009 at 4:47 pm

    I hate Comcast.

  8. slavic fisherman said:

    May 20th, 2009 at 4:49 pm

    ESPN, single life and Cheetos….ahhhh….the good life..

  9. anorexic groundhog said:

    May 20th, 2009 at 4:55 pm

    That’s all I eat-Cheetos.Comcast-NYET>

  10. Michelle Cheerleader in TX said:

    May 20th, 2009 at 5:12 pm

    24 hour 7 days a week- football cable channel is coming. Cannot wait! Hope they have features on female football league.

  11. Michelle Cheerleader in TX said:

    May 20th, 2009 at 5:15 pm

    Barking Carnival- please do an article on female football players. Not the sexed up ones (lingerie league), but the “real deal’ ones. Sisters can kick all you boys’ asses. Excuse me if my grammar ain’t up to snuff, either.

  12. slavic fisherman said:

    May 20th, 2009 at 5:20 pm

    Don’t even get me started about the porno- queen football league. That’s messed up. Maybe Scipio will do the write up. Most comments are always appreciated at Barking Carnival- regardless of spelling. Thanks for your input.

  13. SizzleChest said:

    May 20th, 2009 at 6:43 pm

    I think Scipio would rather write about something like “Excruciatingly Painful Dumps I’ve Taken” than write about chick football.

  14. hot stove steve said:

    May 21st, 2009 at 11:47 am

    Yeah but chick football has pictures!

  15. Stuck in Ottawa said:

    May 21st, 2009 at 3:34 pm

    Its all that damn eggplant Scipio’s been ingesting!

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