The league said Monday that the Oct. 26 game at Carolina will be on CBS instead of Fox, which owns the NFC package. The "cross-flexing" policy change in the current TV rights agreement aims to gain bigger audiences for appealing games. CBS owns the AFC package.
Seattle-Carolina NFL Game Moves To CBS
NEW YORK (AP) — The key NFC matchup between the Seahawks and Panthers will air on CBS as part of the NFL’s new “cross-flexing.”
The league said Monday that the Oct. 26 game at Carolina will be on CBS instead of Fox, which owns the NFC package. The policy change in the current TV rights agreement aims to gain bigger audiences for appealing games. CBS owns the AFC package.
The Panthers and defending Super Bowl champion Seattle are both 3-2 going into this weekend’s games.
Comments (4)
Brian Bussey says:
October 14, 2014 at 11:15 am
extremely short sighted on the NFL’s part. this will come back and haunt them.
Kristine Melser says:
October 14, 2014 at 11:43 am
I disagree, I am seeing it as it shows Fox how they should not put all of their eggs in the NFC basket and risk affiliate relations to do so. Stuff like this happens. Time for Fox to boost their Prime programming and put something good on air and balance the NFL prgramming accordingly.
Teri Keene says:
October 14, 2014 at 3:23 pm
The AP forgot to mention a Titans-Texans game was the one being switched to Fox
Keith ONeal says:
October 14, 2014 at 6:50 pm
I noticed on Sunday during halftime of the Jacksonville game, when CBS was running highlights of other games, that there was a game between 2 AFC teams that had the FOX graphics on the video, and I said to myself, “WTF? How did FOX get that game; it’s supposed to be on CBS!”