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CBS Sports
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2015 THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL BROADCAST SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED
Slate of 16 Regular-Season Games Features 13 Division Rivalries; Kicks Off with Denver vs. Kansas City on September 17CBS and NFL Network Partner for Second Season Broadcasting Thursday Night Football The CBS Television Network and NFL Network announce the Thursday Night Football prime time broadcast schedule for the 2015 NFL season. This season marks the second year CBS Sports and NFL Network are partnering to broadcast Thursday Night Football, a slate of 16 regular-season games kicking off September 17 with Denver at Kansas City. This year’s schedule again showcases marquee match-ups...
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NFL ON CBS
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NFL AND CBS CONTINUE PARTNERSHIP ON THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL PACKAGE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1/18/15 CBS AND NFL NETWORK TO EACH TELEVISE 8 GAMES NEW YORK – The National Football League will continue its partnership with CBS to produce and televise Thursday Night Football for the 2015 season, it was announced today by NFL Commissioner ROGER GOODELL and LESLIE MOONVES, president and CEO of CBS Corp., and SEAN McMANUS, Chairman, CBS Sports. CBS will broadcast the first eight Thursday Night Football games which also will be simulcast on NFL Network. NFL Network will also exclusively televise eight games in the run-up to the playoffs. Th...
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NFL ON CBS
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*** CBS SPORTS MEDIA ADVISORY *** CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS WEEKEND CONFERENCE CALL
TUESDAY, JAN. 13 (3:30 PM, ET/12:30 PM, PT) DIAL: (719) 325-2458 CBS Sports, home of the AFC Championship, will host a conference call on Tuesday, Jan. 13 (3:30 PM, ET/12:30 PM, PT) featuring Sean McManus, Chairman, CBS Sports, and Executive Producer, THE NFL ON CBS; THE NFL ON CBS lead announce team of Jim Nantz and Phil Simms; and THE NFL TODAY analyst Tony Gonzalez to discuss Conference Championships weekend. THE NFL ON CBS, in its 55th year broadcasting the NFL, travels to Foxborough, Mass. for coverage of the 2015 American Football Conference Championship Game on Sunday, Jan. 18...
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NFL ON CBS
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“THE NFL ON CBS” BROADCAST OF INDIANAPOLIS’S WIN OVER DENVER IS SECOND-HIGHEST-RATED SUNDAY AFC DIVISONAL PLAYOFF GAME IN 19 YEARS
THE NFL ON CBS’s broadcast of the AFC Divisional Playoff game featuring the Indianapolis Colts’ victory over the Denver Broncos on Sunday, Jan. 11 (4:45-8:00 PM, ET) was the second-highest-rated Sunday AFC Divisional Playoff game in 19 years on any network. The AFC Divisional Playoff game on Sunday scored an average overnight household rating/share in the metered markets of 25.4/41, up 1% from last year’s 25.1/42 (San Diego-Denver, 1/12/14). Yesterday’s 25.4/41 is the second-highest-rated Sunday AFC Divisional Playoff game in 19 years, trailing only a 26.2/44 (N.Y. Jets-New ...
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CBS SPORTS AND NFL NETWORK ANNOUNCE BROADCAST TEAMS FOR WEEK 16 "THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL" DOUBLEHEADER ON SATURDAY, DEC. 20
This Just In… From CBS Sports and NFL Network… CBS Sports and NFL Network have announced broadcast teams for the Week 16 Thursday Night Football doubleheader airing on Saturday, Dec. 20 on NFL Network and CBS. Kevin Harlan, Rich Gannon and reporter Stacey Dales will call Philadelphia at Washington on NFL Network with kickoff at 4:30 PM, ET from FedEx Field in Landover, Md. Ken Mack produces and Mark Grant directs. Ian Eagle, Dan Fouts and reporter Jenny Dell will be on the call for San Diego at San Francisco on CBS and NFL Network kicking off at 8:25 PM, ET from Levi’s Stadium in Sant...
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CBS Sports
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“THE NFL ON CBS” HIGHLIGHTED BY NEW ENGLAND-GREEN BAY EQUALS AS HIGHEST-RATED NFL GAME OF SEASON
CBS Sports’ Week 13 coverage of THE NFL ON CBS on Sunday, Nov. 30 , highlighted by Green Bay’s 26-21 win over New England (4:25 PM, ET), earned an average overnight household rating/share of 19.2/34, equaling as the highest-rated NFL telecast-to-date in the metered markets this season (Dallas-Seattle, 10/12/14). The rating/share of 19.2/34 is up 10% from last year’s 17.4/31 (Denver-Kansas City, Cincinnati-San Diego) and is the highest-rated regular-season telecast in the metered markets on CBS in three years (19.5/36; New England-Denver; 12/18/11). The New England-Green Bay telec...
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NFL ON CBS
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“THE NFL ON CBS” HIGHLIGHTED BY MIAMI-DENVER SCORES HIGHEST RATING OF THE DAY
CBS Sports’ Week 13 national doubleheader coverage of THE NFL ON CBS on Sunday, Nov. 23, highlighted by Miami vs. Denver and Washington vs. San Francisco (4:25 PM, ET), earned an average overnight household rating/share of 17.4/31, up 18%, from last year’s 14.8/27, and is the highest-rated NFL game window of the day on any network, including primetime. Yesterday’s 17.4/31 for the CBS national game window was the Network’s second-highest rated telecast-to-date in the metered markets in the 2014 NFL season, trailing the 18.6/32 for CBS’s national game window on Nov. 2, 2014, highlighted by D...
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NFL ON CBS
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“THE NFL ON CBS” SCORES ITS HIGHEST-RATED NFL GAME OF SEASON HIGHLIGHTED BY DENVER-NEW ENGLAND
CBS Sports’ Week 9 coverage of THE NFL ON CBS on Sunday, Nov. 2, highlighted by New England’s 43-21 win over Denver in “Manning vs. Brady XVI” (4:25 PM, ET), was the highest-rated NFL game this season on CBS with an average overnight household rating/share of 18.6/32. The rating/share of 18.6/32 is up 21% from last year’s 15.4/28 (Pittsburgh-New England, Baltimore-Cleveland) and is the highest-rated game of the weekend on any network. Sunday’s national game window overnight household rating/share peaked at 20.0/35 from 5:30-6:00 PM, ET. Yesterday’s 18.6/32 is the third highest-r...
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NFL ON CBS
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“THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL” ON CBS AND NFL NETWORK WAS HIGHEST-RATED AND MOST-WATCHED PROGRAM IN PRIMETIME LAST WEEK
CBS and NFL Network’s broadcast of THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL on Thursday, Oct. 23, which featured Denver’s 35-21 victory over San Diego, was the highest-rated and most-watched program in primetime for the week of Oct. 20-26, 2014. The game earned an average national (Live + Same Day) household rating/share of 12.3/21 and was seen by an average of 20.2 million viewers. This week, THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL moves exclusively to NFL Network as the New Orleans Saints visit the Carolina Panthers on Oct. 30 at 8:00 PM, ET. * * * * * RATINGS NOTE: CBS and NFL Network are reporting audience data ...