Hope Springs Eternal as NFL Owners Talk Turkey
Nothing is set in stone, but the 98-day NFL lockout appears to be going the way of the drop-kick field goal and the number 00. In a meeting today in Chicago with NFL owners, commissioner Roger Goodell...
View ArticleCourt Backs NFL, Rules Lockout is Legal
In what could prove to be a fatal blow to the 2011-12 NFL season, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday vacated a lower court’s ruling on the league’s 115-day lockout. In a 2-1 ruling, with...
View ArticleCool, Brees: Saints QB Says NFL Deal Is at Hand
New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees on Wednesday said a deal to finalize a new NFL collective bargaining agreement is “very close” to being done, adding that only “a few details” stand in the...
View ArticleNFL Network in Carriage Talks With Time Warner Cable
After a five-year stalemate that has kept the NFL Network out of millions of Time Warner Cable households, the two combatants are said to be actively pursuing a long-term carriage deal. Speaking to a...
View ArticleNFL Network Locks Up Mediacom Carriage
With less than three weeks to go before the 2011-12 season kicks off, Mediacom has scored a multiyear affiliate deal with NFL Network. While financial terms were not disclosed, the pact includes...
View ArticleDelay of Game: Time Warner Cable-NFL Network Talks Break Down
Despite intensive efforts to broker a carriage agreement, talks between NFL Network and Time Warner Cable have ended without a deal. After having called off any future negotiations, it now appears...
View ArticleMoonves, Bewkes Talk Football
The National Football League was top of mind during Tuesday’s UBS Global Media and Communications Conference, as incumbent and prospective network partners alike weighed in on the value of allying...
View ArticleNFL Network Beefs Up Its 2012 Slate
The NFL has effectively put the kibosh on a proposed eight-game package of Thursday night games, electing instead to gift a handful of extra contests to its proprietary cable network. Starting next...
View ArticleNFL Network Scores Carriage Deal With Cablevision
After years of being all but shut out of the nation’s top market, NFL Network has established a beach head in the greater New York DMA, inking a multi-year agreement with Cablevision. Effective Aug....
View ArticleLazarus: NBC Broke Even on Olympics
Having tallied up all the advertising dollars that poured into its coffers during the 2012 London Summer Olympics, NBC on Thursday announced it broke even on the Games. Speaking at the Bloomberg...
View ArticleTouchdown: Time Warner Cable Cuts Deal to Carry NFL Network
After an eight-year stalemate that kept the National Football League’s in-house television network grounded in key markets like New York and Los Angeles, Time Warner Cable on Friday agreed to carry...
View ArticleNFL Social Media Sentiment Plummets
Even though the highly controversial touchdown call on the field was upheld last night at the end of Monday Night Football, social media data today confirms that the National Football League’s...
View ArticleNFL Sidelines Talk of Expanded Playoff Roster
National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell this week acknowledged that the NFL would not implement an expanded playoff scheme in time for the 2013-14 campaign. Speaking at the annual NFL...
View ArticleNFL Kicks Off ‘Together We Make Football’ Campaign
A new promotional campaign from the National Football League kicks off during tonight’s Chiefs-Eagles game, and the star of the show is a 10-year-old phenom named Samantha Gordon. A tiny running back...
View ArticlePro Sports Leagues Targeted in Tax Reform Movement
Professional sports leagues like the National Football League and the National Hockey League are getting swept up in the move towards tax reform in Congress. Two bills introduced in the the House and...
View ArticleRatings ‘Falter’ as Super Bowl Disappoints
It may have been the least competitive Super Bowl in recent memory, but Fox’s coverage of last night’s Seahawks-Broncos blowout still appears to have delivered massive ratings. According to...
View ArticleWith NFL Win, CBS Lands an Even Bigger Bang
In a somewhat surprising turn of events, CBS appears to have outbid its broadcast competition for the rights to the new Thursday night NFL package. While NBC was thought to be the lead dog in the hunt...
View ArticleNFL Sunday Ticket Is Linchpin of AT&T, DirecTV Deal
DirecTV's rights to NFL Sunday Ticket—a football package that gives subscribers access to every NFL game that plays on Sunday—is so important that it is a key clause in the deal with AT&T. If...
View ArticleAfter Ray Rice, the NFL Needs to Go Big to Restore Brand With Women
If the National Football League addresses the Ray Rice scandal as merely a public relations problem, most branding experts and marketing execs say it's making a colossal mistake. In fact, Christopher...
View ArticleCover Girl Ad Gets Photoshopped Into a Strong NFL Protest Meme
The National Football League's problems of the last week are well known. But now social media users—particularly on Twitter—are passing around a Photoshopped version of a Cover Girl ad that's quickly...
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