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Don't like the idea of this but change is coming to NFL TV programming as I have been saying.

What the NFL needs to do is do away with Thursday night games and allow CBS and Fox to show doubleheaders every Sunday

Yeah but the NFL wants to give you MORE Thursday games in the near future..lol

The NFL is making a pure-profit of 100s of millions a year on Thursday Night Football with double-digit revenue growth. Record ratings this season don't exactly indicate that this trend will stop anytime soon.

Yeah, a few people here bitch about how the NFL is supposedly not happy with the whole TNF package, but the numbers don't lie and the league would be hard pressed to make up the revenue anywhere else (plus it would castrate, if not outright kill, NFL Network).

lol...we will see. There are multiple reports out that the league is unhappy with the Thursday package. Will tweak it. Add more games. Sell some if not all the games off to another network. They already gave up the Thanksgiving game a couple years back....why did they do that? Wouldn't that have helped the network to keep that game? Seriously people where do you get some of this stuff?! The NFL Network is a cash cow for the league with or without games. The network doesn't need the games to be profitable. The network was doing fine before they aired games and before it was on many cable companies.

I gave a complete breakdown of sources for my claims (and many other claims) in a previous discussion about NFL Network and the Thursday Night Package.


Profitable? Maybe, although I've not seen any sources establish that. Cash cow? That's something quite different and I seriously doubt their subscriber numbers and ratings would be anything like what they are today with the TNF games. If you look at the facts we do have, which are the published ratings, the actual live games are the only things that get noteworthy ratings. Would ratings for the other shows on NFLN get better ratings without the TNF package? Unlikely, since the subscriber base would almost certainly be much, much smaller.

You raise the question of giving up a Thanksgiving game. I can't speak to the NFL's reason for that, but I wouldn't be surprised if they could get more money from the networks since it's a high profile game every year. In that sense, it's not really comparable to any of the other Thursday Night games, but more to a playoff game or one-off SNF/MNF game.

Time will tell who is right or wrong. Thankfully these posts are all saved and archived! We will see  ;D