Thursday Night Football (or just TNF ) is the branding used for National Football League (NFL) match broadcasts ) which was broadcasted mainly on Thursday night. Most games start at 8:20 pm. Eastern time, but the game in the package also sometimes air on Saturday at the end of the season, as well as one Sunday morning game from London in NFL International Series (these games have been branded since 2017 as NFL Network Special ).
Debuting on November 23, 2006, aired initially part of the NFL Network Runoff to Playoff package, which consists of eight total games broadcast on Thursday and Saturday night (five on Thursday , and three on Saturday, originally labeled as Saturday Night Football ) during the last part of the season. Since 2012, TNF packets have started during the second week of the NFL season; The NFL Kickoff game and the PrimeTime Thanksgiving game are both broadcast as part of the NBC Sports' Sunday Night Football contract and are not included in Thursday Night Football, even though the Primetime Thanksgiving game was previously part of the package from 2006 to 2011.
At launch, the package proved highly controversial mainly due to the relative unavailability of the NFL Network at the time; leagues use the game as a lever to encourage television providers to bring the NFL Network to their basic level of service, rather than in premium, sports-oriented packages that require customers to pay higher fees; although, like all other national cable television broadcasts of the NFL games, league rules themselves require games to be syndicated to over-the-air television stations in the local market of teams. These problems were magnified in 2007, when games that saw the New England Patriots close the perfect regular season were nationally simulcast on CBS and NBC, alongside NFL Network and local stations where the game was sold, following fears from politicians and other critics.
In 2014, the NFL shifts the package to a new model to improve its lead. The TNF package will be produced by a separate copyright holder, who will hold the right to simulate partial packets on their respective networks. CBS is the first rights holder under this model, broadcasting nine games on broadcast television, and producing the rest of the package to run exclusively on the NFL Network to fulfill its carriage agreement. The package is also extended to the 16th week of this season, and includes the division of a new Saturday morning doubleheader between CBS and NFL Network. On January 18, 2015, CBS and NFL Network extended the same arrangement for the second season. In 2016 and 2017, the NFL continued with similar arrangements, but added NBC as the second rights holder with CBS, with each network broadcasting five games on their respective television broadcasts. In 2018, the NFL reached a long-term agreement with Fox to hold the rights through 2022.
The game is broadcast on radio via Westwood One, which syndicates broadcasts to its radio stations across the United States. In 2016, the NFL also began sublicensing the rights of digital streaming to the TV broadcast portion of the pack to third parties, starting with Twitter in 2016, and Amazon Prime Video in 2017, which Amazon and NFL renew their contract until 2019., with Twitch set to show some games in 2018.
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Initial history
NFL Network coverage is not the first time NFL games are closed on Thursdays or Saturdays. Prior to the new contract, ESPN brought several sporadic Thursday games (usually they fled from Sunday night) and the broadcast network was used to air several national games on Saturday afternoon in mid to late December after the regular season of college football ended. Incidentally, the only reason the league was even allowed to broadcast a football game on Saturday night stems from a legal loophole: league antitrust leakage, the 1961 Sports Broadcasting Act, written when the NFL regular season ends in mid-December, and as such, certain that prohibits NFL television games in most markets on Friday night and all day on Saturdays between the second week of September and the second week of December, to protect college and college football. Since most of the high school and college seasons have ended in mid-December, in addition to bowl games, there is little desire to close this gap, even though the regular season has grown far beyond mid-December since the passage of the law.
In 2005, when the NFL negotiated a new set of television contracts, Comcast's OLN offered to pay $ 450 million for an eight-year contract to bring the NFL prime time game. Instead, Comcast plans to add the NFL Network to its digital cable range. The channel was added, but the NFL Network decided to show the game itself, before the rights fee. Other television transactions earned $ 3.735 billion per year over a period of eight years for CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN and DirecTV (owners of the outdoor sports package NFL Sunday Ticket).
Thursday Night Football made its debut on November 23, 2006, with Kansas City Chief handed over the Denver Broncos visited on 19-10, the Thanksgiving defeat. Every broadcast of the game is titled Thursday Night Football or Saturday Night Football , depending on the night when it airs. This format was brought into the 2007 season.
Starting in 2008, the NFL Network wiped out all except one of Saturday's matches and started their Thursday night package three weeks earlier. This was done to accommodate the previous schedule and the antitrust league release that banned Saturday's matches held for most of the season. In the following season, all references to Saturday Night Football were canceled, and any games not played on Thursday (as in 2016, two Christmas weekend games and NFL International Series matches) have been labeled as " special edition "of Thursday Night Football , and then Thursday Special Night or NFL Network Special . The Thanksgiving game was moved from NFL Network to NBC's Sunday Night Football package as part of a new broadcasting contract after the 2011 season. During Super Bowl 2012, it was announced that Thursday Night Football's package will expand from eight to 13 matches and aired on the NFL Network, once again requesting and declining offers from Turner Sports and Comcast.
2014-2015: partnership with CBS Sports
In January 2014, it was reported that the NFL plans to sublicense the package of up to eight Football Thursday Night matches to other broadcasters for the 2014 NFL season. The league has negotiated with its existing broadcast partner, along with Turner Sports. These eight matches will be broadcast by the NFL Network, and reports show that ESPN plans to put the game on ABC in terms of winning rights, bringing the NFL back into the network for the first time since Super Bowl XL and a step from Monday Night Football to ESPN in 2006. The remaining games will remain exclusive to the NFL Network, due to a train contract with a TV provider that requires at least eight NFL matches to be broadcast exclusively on channels per season. The decision came because the league wants to raise the profile of Thursday night's game, which has suffered from viewer income and relatively lower advertising compared to other games.
On February 5, 2014, the NFL announced that CBS has secured partial rights for Thursday Night Football for the 2014 season. Under the agreement, all television broadcasts of Thursday Night Football will be produced by CBS Sports and was called by the main network announcement teams from Jim Nantz and Phil Simms. The first eight games of the season are nationally broadcast on the NFL Network and CBS; games remaining in the package are only aired nationwide on the NFL Network, but per league broadcasting policy, broadcast on local stations in the participating team market. CBS affiliates were granted the first right of refusal to broadcast a live local broadcast before being offered to another station (as happened in Cincinnati, Ohio where NBC's WLWT affiliate market aired a match between Bengals and Cleveland Browns instead of CBS WKRC-TELEVISION affiliate). Saturday doubleheader was also added on Sunday 16: NFL Network aired the first game, while CBS aired its second game, prime time.
The NFL considers CBS's bid to be most attractive, because of its overall network ranking status (CBS has been the highest-rated broadcasting network in the US since the 2005-06 television season), a commitment to aggressively promote Thursday's game across the property, and plans to capitalize on talent and CBS Sports's top CBS Sports NFL production staff in all games in the package to ensure greater quality improvement than previous home production. CBS staff also cites experiences with combined coverage of NCAA Men's basketball tournaments with Turner Sports as an advantage in collaboration with NFL Network staff, as the talents of both networks collaborate in pre-game, part-time and post-game games. During the game, different graphic packages are co-branded with CBS and NFL Network logos in use, certain players on each team use a microphone, and a 4K camera is used to allow zoom-in shots during instant replay.
With the move of selected games to CBS, media executives expect more big games to show up on Thursday Night Football than in previous years to attract better audiences; in the past, Thursday Night Football has been criticized for showing often the game between the lower teams and underperforming. CBS and NFL launch the game scheduled for Thursday Night Football in April 2014; The CBS game line features a number of major divisional rivals, including New York Giants-Washington, Green Bay-Minnesota, and its opening game on September 11, 2014, featuring Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens.
In the wake of the controversy surrounding Ravens player Ray Rice (who was removed from the team and suspended from the NFL earlier this week after the discovery of footage showed the player physically assaulting his wife, Janay, who was engaged to Rice at the time the recorded security camera was recorded), changes were made to coverage pre-match in the first game to accommodate additional interviews and discussions related to the incident. Among these changes is the removal of an introductory segment featuring Rihanna (who was also attacked by fellow player Chris Brown in 2009) performed his song "Run This Town". Following a complaint by Rihanna on Twitter about the removal, the song was withdrawn completely from future broadcasts.
These rights are negotiated under a $ 275 million one-year contract; on January 18, 2015, the NFL announced that it would update its arrangements with CBS for the 2015 season, with the value rising to around $ 300 million.
2016-2017: CBS and NBC
In November 2015, The Hollywood Reporter reported that in response to the success of the package under CBS, the NFL plans to negotiate long-term contracts for Thursday Night Football with CBS, Fox, NBC, and Turner Sports showed interest. The New York Post reports that this deal will also include the sale of shares in the NFL Network itself.
On December 16, 2015, it was reported that the NFL was shopping for the Thursday Night Football package as a one-year contract with an option for the second year, similar to the current arrangement with CBS; the league also requested that bidders set out goals for the growing NFL Network. The league is also reportedly interested in selling non-exclusive digital rights to simulate games to other partners, such as Amazon.com, Apple Inc., Google, or Yahoo! (which exclusively streams the international series as part of an experiment during the 2015 season, but will close its original video content service in January 2016). In January 2016, it was reported that the NFL was considering dividing the Thursday Night Football package on several broadcast stations together with the possibility of extending the overall package to 17 games. It was also reported that ESPN and Turner Sports were not interested in the package due to its short-term nature, and that Fox was trying to beat the CBS offer.
On February 1, 2016, the NFL announced that Thursday Night Football will be shared between CBS, NBC and NFL Network for the 2016 and 2017 seasons. CBS and NBC will each broadcast five games (resulting in a 10-match schedule at TV broadcasts compared to 8 under the previous deal), followed by eight additional games exclusively at NFL Network to meet the NFL Network retransmission agreement contract with cable providers; eight exclusive NFL Network-exclusive games including six Thursday contests, Sunday International Week Sunday contests, and Christmas games. Like previous contracts, all games will be broadcast by NFL Network. Commissioner Roger Goodell stated that the league is "happy to add NBC to Thursday Night Football mix, a trusted partner with a proven track record of broadcasting NFL ball in primetime, and hoping to grow with a digital partner for what will into a unique tri-cast on broadcast, cable, and digital platforms. "On April 5, 2016, it was revealed that Twitter has earned the worldwide non-exclusive worldwide streaming rights for 10 TV broadcasting games. This collaboration will also include streaming content on the Periscope Twitter service, such as behind the access screen.
Rogers Media, which has television rights for Thursday Night Football package in Canada until the end of the 2016 season but has not obtained digital rights (the majority of NFL media rights in Canada owned by rival Rogers, Bell Media), managed to force Twitter to blocking the flow of games in the country, ruling out the league's insistence that free flow be global. Due to a streaming deal, the over-the-top TV providers of PlayStation Vue and Sling TV are also required to disperse a clone of the game on the NFL Network.
The first game produced by NBC Sports was broadcast exclusively on the NFL Network on November 3, 2016, while the nation's first national simulcast game on NBC aired on November 17th. The acappella group Pentatonix recorded a reworked version of their song "Sing" ("Weekend Go") to serve as the opening theme song for NBC's Thursday Night Football ; NBC also commissioned a new instrumental music theme by Jimmy Greco, "Can not Hold Us Down", performed by orchestral members of the Hamilton musical Broadway. Both are maintained for the NBC game in 2017.
On April 4, 2017, it was announced that Amazon.com has obtained non-exclusive streaming rights for 10 television broadcasts for the 2017 season through their Amazon Prime Video service, under a deal worth $ 50 million, a fivefold increase over $ 10 million paid by Twitter. Streaming will be exclusively for paid Prime customers. The deal includes a $ 30 million promotion. Amazon plans several special features for its inaugural game, including broadcasting alternate feeds with Spanish, Portuguese and British English commentaries (most recently for those unfamiliar with American soccer rules and terminology), and pre-tour events hosted by Tiki Tukang shaving and Curtis Stone featuring NFL presentations of goods available for purchase on Amazon.
November 16, 2017 broadcast between Pittsburgh Steelers and Tennessee Titans is the first NFL broadcast that deliberately uses Skycam as its main camera angle, as opposed to a regular sideline camera that has been used since NFL game startings began in 1939. NBC Sports previously switched to a skycam presentation just for part of two previous Sunday night game of the season due to fog and smoke (and, sixteen years earlier, during its coverage of XFL); A positive reaction to the impromptu change prompted NBC to experiment with using the strategy for the full game.
2018-2022: Fox
In early January 2018, Bloomberg reported that ABC/ESPN and Fox Sports had made an offer for the next Thursday Night Football package. Both Fox and Fox Sports 1 were named as potential outlets for the package in Fox Sports offer, which is intended to showcase Fox's ongoing commitment to sport after the proposed sale of the entertainment business to the majority owner of ESPN The Walt Disney Company (which will exclude Fox's network own and Fox Sports national operations, such as FS1, among other assets). CBS and NBC are also considering renewing existing contracts, but have requested lower rights fees to compensate for the decrease in NFL viewers ( TNF have been cited as one factor in the downturn, oversaturation perceptions of games broadcasted national). It was also reported that the NFL would also allow digital companies to bid for exclusive rights to the Thursday Night Football package that excludes full television partners, unlike previous non-exclusive deals with Twitter and Amazon.
On January 30, 2018, it was reported by various sources that Fox had won the package. The following day, the NFL officially announced that Fox had acquired television broadcasting rights for the Thursday Night Football package under a five-year deal that runs from 2018 to 2022 (which is synchronized with the NFL's other television offerings conclusion). The Fox Network will air 11 games per season in simulcast with the NFL Network. ESPN reports that Fox will pay about $ 60 million per game - an increase of more than about $ 45 million per game paid by CBS and NBC under previous contracts, totaling about $ 660 million per season.
Amazon updated its digital rights for the 2018 and 2019 seasons; In contrast to 2017 where games require Prime Amazon subscriptions, for 2018 and 2019, Amazon will also bring free game coverage on its Twitch.tv service, a platform known for more streaming live video games.
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Game announcer
The early NFL Network team consisted of HBO Sports 'Bryant Gumbel as a NBC Sports' broadcaster Cris Collinsworth as a color commentator for Thursday, and Dick Vermeil replaces Collinsworth for Saturday. In 2007, Collinsworth replaced Vermeil with Gumbel for all games.
Gumbel left the network after the 2007 season and his then-HBO colleague Bob Papa, who is also a radio voice of the New York Giants, was brought in to replace him. Collinsworth survived until the end of the 2008 season, then went on to take over the job of retiring John Madden as principal analyst on NBC Sunday Night Football. NFL Network replaced it with Matt Millen, who again broadcasted in 2009, and then added former ESPN analyst Joe Theismann for 2010.
For 2011, then ESPN is now CBS play-by-play man Brad Nessler takes over broadcast late Thursday. He joins NFL Network's design analyst and NBC Notre Dame's color man, Mike Mayock, and the couple spent three seasons playing the game.
As a result of CBS taking over production responsibility for the broadcast of Thursday Night Football, the number-one broadcasting team Jim Nantz and Phil Simms took over the broadcast stand. With NBC adding games in 2016, Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth, NBC's Sunday Night Football broadcasting team, are required under league contracts to do the same. NBC initially hired former play-by-play man Monday Night Football Mike Tirico for Thursday before the league revoked the idea of ​​each separate broadcasting team for Sunday and Thursday night. Tirico will eventually call three Sunday Night Football matches, including the Thanksgiving night game on the SNF package, so NBC will allow Michaels to rest for a week before the end. this season. Tirico will also call the 22 December 2016 TNF game with Collinsworth, as well as two NBC-produced Nighttime broadcasts on December 18th and Christmas, respectively, both with the former substitute USFL and NFL's Doug Flutie, who also acts as an analyst for NBC's campus football coverage. On May 31, 2017, it was announced that Mike Tirico would replace Al Michaels full-time for the Nihet Thursday Night Football game. For 2017, Kurt Warner will also fill Collinsworth's position in two non-game matches.
For 2017, CBS hired Tony Romo as the main color commentator. Many complications have to be resolved, namely the reluctance of Rom to close Sunday and Thursday nights as required under Thursday Night Football contracts, and the fact that Simms remains under contract with CBS over the next few years. However, the network was confirmed through a press release that Father's duty would include Sunday and Thursday matches.
With TNF moving to Fox in 2018, the network announced that it's the main teams Joe Buck and Troy Aikman will call the game this year, while a substitute for Buck will be announced; Buck has a MLB playoff assignment for Fox. The duo will join Erin Andrews, who usually works with Buck and Aikman on Sundays, and Kristina Pink, who normally works with team # 3 for Fox, consisting of Kenny Albert, son of former NFL commentator Marv Albert, and Super Champion Bowl Ronde Barber, and Mike Pereira, who is one of the two rule analysts for Fox.
Pregame, part time and postgame coverage
Each game broadcast was preceded in the NFL Network by TNF GameDay, which broadcast live from the site of each game and currently features Rich Eisen as host, with Steve Mariucci, Deion Sanders, Michael Irvin, and Kurt Warner or colleagues other NFL Network partners as analysts. The show usually starts two hours before the game time (6:00 Eastern Time).
The right game is preceded by pre-match performances; The CBS game is preceded by Thursday Night Kickoff , hosted by James Brown, Bill Cowher, and Deion Sanders. The NBC game is preceded by Football Night in America (renamed in reference to the host city of the game, such as Football Night in Tampa ), hosted by Liam McHugh, Tony Dungy, and Rodney Harrison. CBS joined Thursday Night Kickoff at 7:30 pm. Eastern time during the game. This resulted in some controversy between viewers and syndicated program producers in a locally programmed time before primetime networks, where pre-game affects programs like Wheel of Fortune Jeopardy! and Entertainment Tonight (all distributed by CBS's CBS Television Distribution syndicate division), along with several other programs, which then require pre-endorsement or placement in time slots or alternative venues which has a lower profile to broadcast in the market where they are taken by CBS, Fox, or NBC affiliates to accommodate Thursday's match. For Fox, CBS's previously mentioned distribution programs are less held by affiliates (though some still do, such as WVUE/New Orleans and WLUK-TV/Green Bay carrying game shows), and programs like sitcoms and entertainment news magazines such as < i> TMZ will end up being preempted during the Fox train from TNF .
Radio coverage
This table shows the National League teams of all time for matches played on Thursday Night Football.
Standings valid from December 25, 2017.
o St. Louis Rams, 1995-2015 o? San Diego Chargers, 1961-2016
Reception
Freight
After the original launch of the game Thursday and Saturday night, some television service providers brought the NFL Network due to a dispute over the network term in its contract of carriage during the negotiations. The dispute was enlarged throughout the 2007 season, as two high profile matches will be broadcast by the network. The first was a battle between the Dallas Cowboys and the Green Bay Packers scheduled for the week after Thanksgiving and saw both teams in 10-1, compete for top seeds in the NFC, and the second was Sunday 17 Saturday night between New England Patriots and New York Giants , in which the Patriots have a chance to become the first team since Miami Dolphins 1972 to end the regular season unbeaten.
In the first case, fans are not happy that the battle between the two teams at a critical point in that season is not available on broadcast television except in the Dallas and Green Bay markets. To avoid such problems with a potential sixteenth victory for the Patriots, CBS and NBC purchased broadcasting rights for the game so as to be seen by national audiences on cable and broadcast television. This eventually led to another controversy, however, because the movement by the network violated the exclusivity that would normally be enjoyed by WWOR-TV in New York City and WCVB-TV in Boston, which belonged to the Giants and Patriots respectively. over-the-air broadcasters for television-broadcast games (games aired on these stations, as well as on WCBS-TV, WNBC, WBZ-TV, and WHDH in the team market area).
Game quality and viewing
Thursday Night Football on the NFL Network is one of the lowest national NFL broadcasts aired on television. Critics argue that games broadcast on Thursday Night Football have a lower quality than other prime time games, as they often feature matches between lower teams or underperformers, and that the shortened breaks between games triggered by Thursday's games also have an effect on their overall quality. In an analysis by Aaron Roberts, it was determined that most of Thursday's matches had an average or above average quality compared to normal non-prime time games, but this was "by design "because of the influence of other NFL announcers about how the game is scheduled throughout the season (which traditionally prioritizes" main "games for either the afternoon or Sunday and Monday nights).
The movement of the selected games to CBS brings increased rankings: the inaugural game is the highest rated program of the night, with a 13.7 viewers share and an average of 20.7 million viewers, representing a 108% increase over the first NFL Network game on in 2013. The game, whose ratings are driven by coverage of Ray Rice's scandal, also took CBS to its highest prime time rank on Thursday night since May 2006. While lower, at 9.6 million viewers, a 3-week match between Atlanta Falcons and Tampa Bay Buccaneers is also the highest rated program of the night. The first four games of the package, however, featured an explosive victory. In total, the average gameplay has increased from about 7 million to about 11.8 million in the 2014 season.
The controversy over the ratings and quality of the game in the Thursday night contest increased when on November 28, 2016, a report circulated that the league was considering ending the franchise. The NFL, however, denied this rumor. The next match on December 1, 2016 between the Dallas Cowboys and the Minnesota Vikings is the highest ranking of Thursday Night Football this season.
During the 2016 season, current and former players including Richard Sherman, J. J. Watt, and Charles Woodson expressed their displeasure for Thursday Night Soccer, with Richard Sherman calling it a "poopfest".
Player security
As mentioned, teams that need to play matches Thursday night can result in shorter rest periods for players in between games. On October 6, 2014, Arian Foster, then from Houston Texans, made a statement that took him hypocritically to the NFL to emphasize the security of the players (especially in concussions) while allowing his players to play games in just three days' rest, which he considered the same -the same "dangerous". Richard Sherman of the Seattle Seahawks has also voiced discomfort about Thursday night's game reducing preparation time, and writing editorial 2016 for Players' Tribune about the game. Sherman 2017 season (and runs with Seahawks; he will sign a new contract with San Francisco 49ers in season 2018) will end on November 9, 2017 during Thursday night's game against Arizona Cardinals, when he broke the Achilles Tendon.
On January 29, 2015, the NFL released its health and safety report, which states that an average of 4.8 injuries continued during Thursday's game compared to 6.9 injuries per game on Sunday and Monday.
See also
- Fox NFL
- NFL on CBS
- NFL on NBC
- NBC Sunday Night Football
- Football Monday Night
References
External links
- Official website
- Thursday Night Football at NBC
- Thursday Night Football on IMDb
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