Good news, fans of mid-week football games. The NFL will continue its partnership with the CBS network to broadcast Thursday Night Football games for the 2015 season. Execs from CBS and the NFL announced the news Sunday morning.
CBS, NFL renew ‘Thursday Night Football’ for 2015 season
You favorite Thursday night games are back.
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Next season’s package of Thursday Night Football games will run much like they did this year. CBS will broadcast the first eight games. Those games will be broadcast on the NFL Network simultaneously as well. CBS will produce the full 16 week slate of Thursday night games, with the broadcast team headlined by Jim Nantz and Phil Simms.
The league and CBS had a deal worth $275 million for the 2014 Thursday night package. That deal included an option for the 2015 season.
Ratings for the Thursday night game were subdued by the usual standards for prime time NFL games. The games broadcast on CBS and the NFL Network simultaneously averaged just over 16.6 million viewers, which was still more than enough to give CBS the prime time rating win on Thursdays for each game it broadcast.
CBS will also broadcast Super Bowl 50 in February 2016.
In addition to the Thursday night games, CBS and the NFL Network will be developing a variety of “new programming initiatives” this year. What exactly those initiatives will be remains to be seen.
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