Anyone know why the NFC game of Giants/Cowboys on CBS instead of FOX?

[carlitosway]

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[varkeyboy]

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[carlitosway]

Never seen that before in all my years of watching the NFL.

 

[varkeyboy]

RedZone baby!!! 7 hours straight with 0 commercials.

Can't remember last time I watched CBS or FOX on Sunday afternoons.

 

[MistaFlava]

Not sure but I went to all the FOX channels and found nothing at first

 

[RussellPeters]

CBS always broadcasts the visiting NFC team right? With games moving around because of Covid this was the only NFC visiting team so it had to be on CBS. If there was another NFC visiting team than this game would have been on FOX. That’s what I think happened.

 

[Biz]

Since CBS and FOX each get one of the daytime games, there was always an AFC team slated as one of the opponents for whichever game was scheduled to air on CBS. For years, CBS had exclusively been affiliated with games featuring at least one AFC team, with FOX having the same arrangement for the NFC.

That changed entering the 2014 season, as the league began “cross flexing” games between the two networks after Week 5, allowing CBS to air two NFC games and vice versa to balance out the television schedule.

 

[varkeyboy]

Tony Romo effect

 

[carlitosway]

RedZone baby!!! 7 hours straight with 0 commercials.

Can't remember last time I watched CBS or FOX on Sunday afternoons.

Usually like the Redzone also except when I want to focus on a particular game

 

[carlitosway]

Since CBS and FOX each get one of the daytime games, there was always an AFC team slated as one of the opponents for whichever game was scheduled to air on CBS. For years, CBS had exclusively been affiliated with games featuring at least one AFC team, with FOX having the same arrangement for the NFC.

That changed entering the 2014 season, as the league began “cross flexing” games between the two networks after Week 5, allowing CBS to air two NFC games and vice versa to balance out the television schedule.

Ahhh... OK OK thanks Biz.