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This is disturbing
Who on earth agreed to this? Do they hate football fans?
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It's been a Sunday evening staple for nearly 20 years. After flipping through the channels for six-plus hours, it was time to settle on one channel for an hour of in-depth highlights and analysis from each of the games.
But all of that will change come 2006.
One of the little-known facts regarding the new wave of NFL television contracts is that, per The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, ESPN will not be permitted to show highlights from Sunday games until after midnight.
NBC, which purchased the Sunday night package of games, has a hammerlock on the highlights, at least until the clock strikes twelve in New York. We assume that this will translate into a Primetime-style show on NBC, which will start at 7:30 Eastern time and lead into the kickoff of the Sunday night games at 8:15.
We suspect, though, that ESPN will accept the tradeoff. After all, ESPN gets the Monday night games as of next year.
But given that ESPN is coughing up a cool $1.1 billion per year for the rights to broadcast MNF, it's odd that the network has been necessarily stripped of its ability to host its trademark Sunday night highlight show.
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Via ProFootballTalk.com What the fuck am I supposed to do between the 3:00 game and the 7:00 game, watch NBC? NBC has a proven track record of not knowing the first thing about sports broadcasting.
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