NEW YORK, Dec. 14, 2011
/PRNewswire/ -- The National Football League announced today
that CBS has been awarded a new nine-year broadcast rights
agreement that runs through the 2022 season. In the new deal,
CBS Sports remains the broadcast home of the NFL's American
Football Conference (AFC). In addition, as part of the NFL's
expanded "flexible scheduling," CBS will also broadcast games from
the National Football Conference (NFC). This will be the
first time CBS will broadcast AFC and NFC matchups in the same
season. CBS will broadcast Super Bowl L in 2016, Super Bowl LIII in
2019 and Super Bowl LVI in 2022, in addition to Super Bowl XLVII in
New Orleans in 2013.
"The NFL provides terrific, exciting programming to our viewers
week-in and week-out," said Leslie
Moonves, President and Chief Executive Officer, CBS
Corporation. "No other franchise delivers ratings the way an NFL
game does. The League has proven time and again that it understands
the importance of a healthy broadcast partner, and this historic
new agreement strengthens that partnership. In addition, the deal
continues CBS's ability to be profitable with the NFL throughout
the coming decade and beyond."
"CBS has been broadcasting the NFL for 52 years, and we are
extremely pleased to extend our long-term partnership," said
Sean McManus, Chairman, CBS Sports.
"This commitment is further proof of the valued relationship CBS
shares with the NFL and of the overall strength of CBS Sports. The
opportunity to add quality NFC games greatly enhances our
television package. We look forward to continued growth as we
broadcast the NFL for many more years to come."
Twelve of CBS's 14 owned stations are in NFL markets, including
New York, San Francisco/Oakland, Boston,
Miami, Denver, Pittsburgh and
Baltimore, which are all AFC
markets.
This new deal is the longest ever with the NFL and its broadcast
partners, surpassing the eight-year deal from 1998-2005. CBS
Sports, which first began televising NFL regular-season games in
1956 and this season marks its 52nd season, had broadcast rights to
the National Football Conference package from 1970 through
1993. The Network began televising American Football
Conference games in 1998.
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SOURCE CBS Corporation