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NFL’s 2023 Sunday TV Packages Give FOX, CBS More Control Of Schedule

With Fox airing NFC games and CBS airing AFC, the networks will get to choose which teams from their respective conference they’d like to show and how many times, as first reported by Sports Business Journal.
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The NFL recently signed new TV deals with Fox and CBS that will go into effect for the 2023 season, but the way those packages will be made up is changing.

With Fox airing NFC games and CBS airing AFC, the networks will get to choose which teams from their respective conference they’d like to show and how many times, as first reported by Sports Business Journal.

SBJ noted, “Starting in ’23, Fox and CBS will identify a specific number of teams that it wants to carry for a specific minimum of games. It is not known how many teams or games are part of this process, which will occur at some point before the official schedule release.”

We will no longer see the standard of Fox getting interconference and road NFC games and CBS getting interconference and road AFC games. SBJ reports, “Under the new deal, those designations will be stripped away, essentially making all 272 games free agents.”

There is still quite a bit to learn about how these packages are going to work, but Awful Announcing’s Joe Lucia made a good point, wondering if this will work similarly to the Big Ten’s arrangement with Fox and ESPN. That agreement allows each network to essentially “draft” games for the season.

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SEC on CBS Draws College Football’s Most-Watched Game for Third Straight Week

Alabama-Arkansas drew an average of 5.828 million viewers, making it the most-watched Alabama-Arkansas game in 12 years.
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CBS is reaping the benefits of its package with the SEC. That’s because for the third consecutive week, CBS is home of college football’s highest-rated game of the week.

Alabama-Arkansas drew an average of 5.828 million viewers, making it the most-watched Alabama-Arkansas game in 12 years. That game also peaked at nearly 7 million viewers at one point.

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FOX Scores Another Big College Football Weekend

Saturday’s broadcast of Michigan-Iowa drew 4,198,000 viewers on FOX.

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FOX continues to grabs heaps of viewers for its prime viewing window of college football coverage.

Saturday’s broadcast of Michigan-Iowa drew 4,198,000 viewers on FOX. To date, thru five weeks of the college football season, Big Noon Saturday is averaging 5,767,000 viewers, the most-watched window in college football.

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NFL Ratings on CBS Off to Best Start Since 2010

That number buoys the network to an average of 18.559 million viewers over the first four games of the season.
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The NFL of CBS is behemoth to start the 2022 season. This past weekend saw the more massive ratings for the network.

Sunday’s national game window, which was led the Patriots-Packers overtime game, averaged 24.647 million viewers which was the most-watched Week 4 window on CBS since 1998, when the NFL returned to CBS. It’s also a ratings increase of 8% from last season.

That number buoys the network to an average of 18.559 million viewers over the first four games of the season, CBS‘ best start to a season since 2010.

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