NFL Network
In February 2015, NFL Network reached approximately 71.1 million American households. By June 2023, that number had fallen to 51.5 million. The channel is a pay television network devoted entirely to American football, and its shrinking reach arrived as cord cutting kept reshaping the television industry. Its story is unusual because the league it covers built it, owns it, and fought again and again with the cable companies it needed. How does a league launch its own network? What did the channel put on the air besides professional games? And why did cable operators, senators, state legislators and judges all end up arguing about where a football channel belonged on the dial?
NFL Network went on the air on the 4th of November 2003, only eight months after the owners of the league's 32 teams voted unanimously to approve it. The league put up $100 million to fund operations. The first home was Culver City, a suburb of Los Angeles, California.
Much of the programming came from NFL Films, which produces commercials, television programs and feature films for the league. Its library holds more than 4,000 hours of footage. That is why the network's highlights and recaps carry a trademark look of slow-motion game action, the sounds of the game, and sideline conversations between players and team staff.
Today the headquarters is the NFL Los Angeles building, next to SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. NFL Media moved into a 200,000 square foot space on the Hollywood Park campus on the 8th of September 2021. It includes NFL Media's first outdoor studio and room for studio audiences. The worldwide feed goes out from Encompass Digital Media in Atlanta, Georgia, a company formerly known as Crawford Communications and Broadcast Facilities Inc. Secondary East Coast facilities sit in the NFL Films building in Mount Laurel, New Jersey.
The network's website launched in 2004 on NFL.com, and its app followed in 2009. A 1080i high-definition simulcast launched in August 2004. In mid-October 2008, studio programs began airing in an enhanced HD format, with extra scores and statistics in a wing on the right side of the screen that only HD viewers could see. NFL Total Access went to full HD on the 1st of May 2009, and NFL GameDay followed that September. Most providers carried only the HD feed during 2011. The standard-definition feed was discontinued entirely in July 2012, the same month the network introduced its current logo.
Bryant Gumbel, a veteran television announcer, handled play-by-play when Thursday Night Football premiered, with Cris Collinsworth beside him as color commentator. Collinsworth, a former Fox analyst who now works for NBC, won the Sports Emmy for best game analyst for his work on these telecasts. Dick Vermeil replaced him for two games in 2006. Marshall Faulk and Deion Sanders filled in when needed in 2007.
In 2006, the network began broadcasting eight regular-season games in Thursday prime time. They were part of Run to the Playoffs, a late-season package that also included Saturday-night games branded Saturday Night Football. The first game paired the Denver Broncos and the Kansas City Chiefs on the 23rd of November 2006.
Beginning in 2008, most Saturday games were dropped from the package. From 2009, every game carried the Thursday Night Football name regardless of the night. Starting with the 2012 season, the package grew to a weekly game from Weeks 2 through 15. It excluded the Kickoff Game and Thanksgiving Day, which NBC holds. One Saturday night game in Week 16 completed the slate. As a result, every NFL team now appears in at least one timeslot-exclusive nationally televised game each season.
Like ESPN's Monday Night Football, these telecasts also air on a designated broadcast station in the primary markets of the participating teams. Until blackout rules were suspended in 2015, a station in the home team's market carried the game only if every remaining ticket had sold 72 hours before the start time.
In the 2014 NFL season, the league struck a sub-licensing agreement with CBS, which produced all the games while part of the package aired in simulcast on broadcast television. Certain games stayed exclusive to NFL Network to satisfy carriage agreements that guaranteed a minimum number of exclusive broadcasts. NBC Sports gained a portion in 2016 under a similar arrangement. Fox Sports held the package from 2018 to 2022. When Amazon Prime Video took exclusive rights in 2022, NFL Network switched to mostly Sunday morning NFL International Series games and late-season Saturday games. For 2026, the package keeps five international games and a Week 16 doubleheader.
The network has covered the NFL draft since 2006, competing with ESPN and ESPN2. For the 2018 edition, it simulcast a co-production with Fox Sports. That was a one-year agreement, because exclusive over-the-air rights moved to ABC for 2019, when ESPN produced a different broadcast aimed at casual fans. In 2020, NFL Network simulcast ESPN's coverage, which was produced remotely from the basement of commissioner Roger Goodell's home because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Every August, NFL Network televises all 65 preseason games. Some air live, but most run on a tape-delayed basis using the local broadcast of one of the teams involved. Live games are blacked out in the home markets of both teams. Viewers there get an alternate feed with a different preseason game, documentary programming or a previously aired game. Before 2014, selected preseason games sometimes aired as special editions of Thursday Night Football, such as the 2007 Pro Football Hall of Fame Game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New Orleans Saints. NBC had opted out of that slot to carry a proposed China Bowl in Beijing, which was eventually cancelled.
Good Morning Football airs live from 7-10 am Eastern on weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays during the off-season, under the name Good Morning Football Weekend on weekends. A repeat follows from 10 am to 1 pm.
Sundays during the NFL season are built around a stack of GameDay shows. NFL GameDay Morning airs from 9 am to 1 pm Eastern, and NFL GameDay Live runs from 1 to 7:30 pm. NFL GameDay Highlights fills 7:30-8:30, NFL GameDay Prime runs from 8:30 pm to 11:30 pm, and NFL GameDay Final closes from 11:30 pm to 12:30 am. That schedule can shift when the network airs an 8:30 am Eastern International game. On Thursdays, Mondays and any time the network carries a game, NFL GameDay Kickoff begins two hours beforehand, and NFL GameDay Final airs afterward.
NFL RedZone is a separate game-day channel that runs on Sundays during the regular season, from 1:00 to 8:00 p.m. Eastern, which is 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Pacific. It whips around all Sunday afternoon games in progress on CBS and Fox. Whenever a team enters the red zone, coverage switches full-screen to that game's live feed to catch a potential touchdown or field goal. Scott Hanson hosts. It should not be confused with the former DirecTV-exclusive channel of the same name, which was part of NFL Sunday Ticket until the end of the 2022 season. Starting in 2016, the network also replayed one week of the previous season's RedZone every Sunday during the offseason.
Canadian television providers received approval from the CRTC to distribute the network in 2004. Any NFL Network-exclusive live games are blacked out on the Canadian feed, because those games air on Bell Media's networks, including TSN and CTV. As of 2017, the network is also offered through DAZN's NFL Game Pass service.
In the United Kingdom, a 2008 launch was reported but never happened. Even so, Sky Sports shows significant pieces of the network's programming. Almost every edition of Good Morning Football and NFL Total Access airs on Sky Sports NFL, which Sky has operated throughout the NFL season since 2020. NFL RedZone airs in full on Sky Sports Mix.
German viewers have had the network through the IPTV subscription service DAZN since the 2017 season, and DAZN also offers RedZone there. In Brazil, NFL Network sits on the NFL GamePass Free Tier, while NFL RedZone requires the Pro Tier.
In 2006, NFL Network began televising college football bowl games. It acquired the newly established Texas Bowl in Houston, whose management rights were then held by the Houston Texans, along with the Insight Bowl. Two all-star events joined them: the Senior Bowl, which features prospects who have finished their college eligibility, and the Las Vegas All-American Classic, which was cancelled at the last minute over financial and sponsorship issues. The games were meant to make the network more attractive to television providers.
The 2006 Insight Bowl between Minnesota and Texas Tech earned a place in the record books. Texas Tech trailed 38-7 in the third quarter and won 44-41 in overtime, the largest comeback in Division I FBS bowl game history.
On the 14th of April 2007, the network televised the Nebraska Cornhuskers' spring football game. It aired the Insight, Texas and Senior bowls again in late 2007 and early 2008. It also carried two games between historically black colleges and universities during the 2007 season, including the Circle City Classic at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis, Indiana. ESPN later acquired the rights to the Insight and Texas Bowls, and the Insight Bowl later moved to Fox Sports.
In May 2019, the network announced a four-year deal with Conference USA for a weekly regular-season game on Saturday afternoons. It opted out after a single season. Since 2019, it has carried the Black College Football Hall of Fame Classic every year, a kickoff game between two historically black colleges and universities on the Sunday before Labor Day. It also holds rights to the HBCU Legacy Bowl, a postseason all-star game for draft-eligible players from those schools. In the 2022 season, a weekly sub-license agreement with ESPN returned regular college games to the network, drawn mainly from mid-major conferences such as the Sun Belt Conference.
Two high school all-star games aired in June 2007. The Bayou Bowl, between players from Texas and Louisiana, ran on the 9th of June through a live feed from the regional sports network FSN Southwest. The Big 33 Football Classic, between players from Pennsylvania and Ohio, followed on the 16th of June. For the 2023 off-season, the network broadcast delayed games from the 7-on-7 Overtime's football league, known as OT7. In 2024, it had live coverage of OT7's five-week regular season.
On the 1st of July 2010, NFL Network began airing live Canadian Football League games simulcast from the Canadian sports network TSN. It showed the league's Thursday games, three Saturday games in July, and Friday night games beginning in September. It skipped August because of its heavy load of preseason NFL games. It also skipped the playoffs and the Grey Cup, which are played on Sundays opposite NFL regular season games. On the 25th of May 2012, the network announced it would not renew its CFL contract. The package later went to the NBC Sports Network and then to the ESPN networks. Around 2019, the network wanted CFL games again and insisted the CFL start its schedule over a month earlier, to fill time between the NFL draft and training camp. That change would have required reworking the league's collective bargaining agreement, so the CFL renewed with ESPN instead.
On the 31st of January 2019, the network signed a multi-year deal to air Alliance of American Football games, two per week, mostly on Saturday and Sunday nights. The broadcasts were produced with CBS Sports. The league folded in the middle of its inaugural season.
The network held rights to the revived Arena Football League from 2010 to 2012. It aired a weekly Friday Night Football game at 8:00 p.m. Eastern from March to August, plus playoff games and the ArenaBowl. The NFL stated that it would not try to buy into the league. Broadcasters included Kurt Warner, Tom Waddle, Paul Burmeister, Fran Charles, Charles Davis and Ari Wolfe. Labor problems inside the league led the network to stop airing games partway through the 2012 season. The remaining games ran on tape delay, and the network ended the contract outright at season's end. CBS Sports Network then obtained the rights.
In March 2024, the NFL announced it would broadcast 30 regular-season games from the 2024 revival of the AFL. The network never carried any of them. West Texas Desert Hawks owner Zack Bugg accused the network of malfeasance, saying he personally paid for one of his team's games to be televised, only for it never to air. The network claimed it never received the money. The Albany Firebirds indicated that the network refused to carry games because small-market teams, West Texas among them, "scared (them) off." Oregon Blackbears president Patrick Johnson opposed the deal, calling its structure predatory. The league had to pay the network a brokerage fee but could not sell advertising or share in the advertising the network sold.
The figure at the center of the network's first big fight with cable was $0.61 per subscriber. Once Thursday Night Football launched, NFL Network increasingly insisted on placement in basic packages at that fee. Time Warner Cable and other major providers wanted it on a sports tier. Cable companies felt a channel with marginal interest, few live games and filler programming would be hard to sell outside the football season. In February 2008, The Wall Street Journal reported that the NFL had talked with Disney executives about partnering with ESPN to bolster the network. One analyst suggested folding it into ESPN Classic, a lesser-viewed but better-carried channel.
A free preview from the 24th to the 30th of December 2006 showed how tangled things were. It went to Suddenlink Communications systems in West Texas, and to Time Warner Cable and Cablevision systems around New York City. The package included the Texas Bowl and the Insight Bowl, but not that week's game between the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins, which was already scheduled for a local broadcast station. Time Warner Cable and Cablevision wanted only the Texas Bowl, because the Rutgers Scarlet Knights had built strong local appeal in 2006 and barely missed a Bowl Championship Series berth. The NFL refused to split the preview.
Cablevision then announced it would show the Texas Bowl on channel 14, normally a television listings channel used as an overflow feed for MSG Network and FSN New York, from 6:00 p.m. until the postgame coverage ended. The NFL would not accept that. On the 21st of December, after New Jersey legislators threatened legal action, Cablevision changed course and showed the Rutgers game against Kansas State and the entire preview schedule. Time Warner Cable made a similar announcement hours earlier, and Suddenlink agreed the next day. The preview produced no long-term carriage deals, and the standoff with all three companies continued.
The fights grew louder in 2007. In late November, the one-loss Dallas Cowboys hosted the one-loss Green Bay Packers, with Brett Favre having one of the best seasons of his career. Most fans could not see the game because of carriage restrictions. Then in December, U.S. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts wrote to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, urging a settlement before the 29th of December game between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants. The Patriots were chasing the first undefeated regular season in 35 years, and Kerry wanted Americans to see "a historic event."
An agreement with NBC and CBS put the game on all three networks. It was the first NFL simulcast since Super Bowl I and the first three-network simulcast in the league's history. Several stations objected. WWOR-TV in New York, WCVB-TV in Boston and WMUR-TV in Manchester, New Hampshire, said it violated their agreements with their own networks. WWOR reached an agreement and aired the game alongside WNBC and WCBS-TV, so viewers in New York, Boston and New Hampshire could find it on up to four networks. Dish Network, Sirius XM Radio and Entercom also complained. RCN Corporation, the 12th-largest cable provider in the country, said the deal "devalues its contract with the league's in-house service." NFL spokesperson Greg Aiello said any compensation talks would "take place privately with our TV partners."
Time Warner Cable faced a separate offer. On the 20th of December 2007, NFL Network proposed binding arbitration, with a neutral third party setting the price and tier. It offered to release the Patriots-Giants game immediately if the cable company agreed in writing. Time Warner Cable declined, noting it had reached agreements with hundreds of programming networks without arbitration. It offered a sports tier, a premium service, or a per-game purchase at a price set by the NFL, and the network refused. The companies finally settled on the 21st of September 2012, according to the Associated Press, and distribution was due to be complete by the 27th of September. Bright House Networks also reached an agreement. Time Warner Cable had first added the network in 2005 across western New York and the Mohawk Valley, after acquiring Adelphia Communications' assets. It replaced Adelphia's regional sports network, Empire, and was the network's first substantial clearance on an analog cable system.
Dish Network took revenge of its own. On the 20th of February 2008, it moved NFL Network from its America's Top 100 package to America's Top 200, a change that cost the network four million subscribers. The move stemmed from the decision to simulcast the Patriots-Giants game on CBS and NBC. On the 27th of February 2008, the network announced a lawsuit. New York State Supreme Court Judge Rich Lowe ruled in its favor on the 15th of January 2009, finding that the 2006 agreement for America's Top 100 was still valid. The two sides settled out of court on the 10th of April 2009, placing the channel on the Classic Silver 200 package. In June 2016, the carriage contract expired at 7 PM Eastern on the 16th, and the network and RedZone left the Dish lineup. It was the first time a contract expired without a new agreement. Dish subsidiary Sling TV added both networks on the 11th of August 2016.
Charter Communications became one of the first multiple system operators to carry the network, in 2004, on its digital-basic programming with NFL HD and NFL On Demand. In December 2005, the network pulled itself from Charter and sued for breach of contract in the New York Supreme Court. Reports said it wanted a 125% increase in carriage fees and placement on expanded basic tiers. Charter and the network announced a new long-term agreement in August 2011, in time for the 2011 season.
Insight Communications signed a carriage agreement in 2004 for its digital tier, with NFL Network On Demand and NFL Network HD. At first, Insight skipped the Run to the Playoffs games because of the extra surcharge providers pay. After Time Warner Cable acquired Insight in January 2012, it let the agreement expire on the 1st of August 2012. Both channels disappeared from Insight systems in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. They returned two months later, when Time Warner reached its agreement with the network.
On the 10th of November 2006, Canadian provider Cogeco Cable agreed to carry the network on its Sports and Information Tier. The tier had about 30% penetration across all Cogeco subscribers and 60% among its digital-cable homes. It made Cogeco the only major cable provider to put the network directly on a digital sports tier without repercussions. On the 20th of August 2010, the National Cable Television Cooperative reached an agreement that brought the network to member providers, including Suddenlink. On the 15th of April 2019, AT&T U-verse removed the channel and NFL RedZone from its lineup.
On the 10th of November 2006, Comcast announced it would add NFL Network to its digital tier before Thursday Night Football debuted. Less than a year later, on the 6th of August 2007, it moved the channel to its Sports Entertainment Package. A court battle followed, and the first ruling favored Comcast. The network appealed. Comcast also sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the network stop encouraging subscribers to drop Comcast service.
On the 26th of February 2008, a New York appellate court reversed an earlier judgment that had allowed the move. Four judges of the Appellate Division, First Department, found the contract language about additional programming packages ambiguous. The carriage deal was set to expire on the 30th of April 2009. Messages sent to customers warned that the NFL might terminate Comcast's rights and that the channels could vanish as soon as the 1st of May. On the 10th of April 2009, it was confirmed that Comcast would remove the channel for lack of an agreement. On the 30th of April 2009, the network announced it would stay on Comcast while the sides kept negotiating.
Meanwhile, the NFL took its case to the Federal Communications Commission. It argued that Comcast charged no extra fee for the sports channels it owned, Versus and Golf Channel, so charging extra for NFL Network was discriminatory. On the 10th of October 2008, the commission ruled that the NFL had made a prima facie showing that Comcast had indirectly and improperly demanded a financial interest in NFL programming in exchange for carriage. It quoted its earlier warning that "ultimatums, intimidation, conduct that amounts to exertion of pressure beyond good faith negotiations" could violate the rules. It ordered an administrative law judge to hold a hearing and report back within 60 days.
The trial began on the 14th of April 2009. Three days later, Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts testified that the company would move the channel to a lower-priced base package if the subscriber fee dropped to 25 cents per month. The network was then charging 75 cents. He said Comcast saved $50 million a year in license fees by keeping the channel on its sports package, which in turn saved customers money.
On the 19th of May 2009, the NFL and Comcast reached a ten-year agreement to put the channel on Comcast's Digital Classic package by the 1st of August 2009. The monthly price would be between 45 and 50 cents, instead of the 70 cents the NFL had originally requested. Lower-tier Comcast digital subscribers received the network on the 30th of July 2009. The deal prompted speculation that other cable operators would end their holdouts.
On the 5th of August 2025, the NFL announced an agreement with ESPN, Inc. to acquire NFL Network, RedZone and NFL Fantasy for an undisclosed amount, pending regulatory approval. The NFL would receive a 10% equity stake in ESPN. NFL Network and RedZone would be included in ESPN's forthcoming over-the-top streaming service. Disney projected the sale would close by late 2026 as a best-case scenario. At the time of the deal, the network was available in roughly 44 million homes.
Government regulators approved the deal on the 31st of January 2026, and the agreement closed shortly afterward. NFL Network employees were announced to officially become ESPN employees in April.
The first change on the air came in March 2026. On the 17th of March, the United Football League announced that selected ESPN-produced games from its 2026 season would air on NFL Network, beginning with the Birmingham Stallions at the Houston Gamblers on the 5th of April 2026. In May 2026, the schedule announcement special for the 2026 season was a SportsCenter special simulcast with ESPN. In past years, NFL Network had produced that broadcast itself.
On The Dan Patrick Show after the schedule release, NFL Network personality Rich Eisen said he did not know whether ESPN planned to cut NFL Network studio programs that competed directly with its own. He said he had received assurances that NFL GameDay Morning, which competes with ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown, would be unaffected. So would coverage of the NFL Draft and the Draft Combine.
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When did NFL Network launch?
NFL Network launched on the 4th of November 2003, only eight months after the owners of the league's 32 teams voted unanimously to approve it. The league invested $100 million to fund its operations, and the network was originally based in Culver City, California.
Who owns NFL Network after the ESPN deal?
ESPN, Inc. acquired NFL Network, RedZone and NFL Fantasy under an agreement announced on the 5th of August 2025. Regulators approved the deal on the 31st of January 2026, and the NFL received a 10% equity stake in ESPN.
Where is NFL Network headquartered?
NFL Network is headquartered in the NFL Los Angeles building next to SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. NFL Media moved to a 200,000 square foot space on the Hollywood Park campus on the 8th of September 2021.
What is NFL RedZone and how does it work?
NFL RedZone is a game-day channel that airs Sundays during the regular season from 1:00 to 8:00 p.m. Eastern. It whips around Sunday afternoon games on CBS and Fox, switching full-screen to any game where a team enters the red zone, and Scott Hanson hosts.
Why did NFL Network have carriage disputes with cable companies?
NFL Network increasingly insisted on carriage on lower subscription tiers once Thursday Night Football launched, including a basic package and a fee of $0.61 per subscriber. Providers such as Time Warner Cable wanted it on a sports tier, which led to disputes with Comcast, Dish Network, Charter and others.
What was the 2007 Patriots-Giants simulcast on NFL Network?
The 29th of December 2007 game between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants aired on NFL Network, NBC and CBS. It was the first NFL simulcast since Super Bowl I and the first three-network simulcast in league history.
How many households could watch NFL Network?
NFL Network was available in approximately 71.1 million American households in February 2015 and 51.5 million as of June 2023. At the time of the ESPN deal it was available in roughly 44 million homes.
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