What's with scheduling this week?

by poorboywilly on Dec 6, 2008 11:03 PM MST

I don't get it. I didn't check out the schedule this week because I assumed the Broncos playing an intra-division rivalry game would be televised in a neighboring state. Now I see I get the Jets and 49ers. Why does CBS have eight games and only one timeslot this week while FOX has five games to spread over two timeslots? Thanks NFL. I even purchased your stupid channel to watch my team play the Browns and now an attrocious bit of scheduling has one station deciding between St. Louis-Arizona and Pittsburgh-Dallas (tough choice) while the other station has eight games at two different times and can air only one.

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I'm stuck with NE @ Seattle

The best defense is a good defense!
And last week's young players. Yes!

by Mike Clark on Dec 7, 2008 8:31 AM MST reply actions

same story here

my CBS channel is out of LA, and they are giving me Jax @Chi… WTF? When BOTH SD and OAK aren’t playing on Sunday afternoons, what excuse do they have in those markets for not showing a divisional rivalry?

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by Jeremy Bolander on Dec 7, 2008 8:45 AM MST reply actions

Strange scheduling this year

In year’s past, here in Colorado, when the Broncos play the late game, there has always been two games at 11:00 Mountain Time. This year there has only been one at 11:00, except when the Broncos were at night, or, like last week, when the Broncos at Jets got rescheduled from 11:00 to 2:15.

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by bradley on Dec 7, 2008 9:54 AM MST reply actions

When a station carries their home team...

…they are allowed only one game to be broadcasted that day (unless it is a primetime game). The other affiliate in the market is compensated with two games.

"Greater is an army of sheep led by a lion, than an army of lions led by a sheep" Defoe

by Steve Nichols on Dec 7, 2008 1:05 PM MST up reply actions