GAME TIMES AND BROADCAST PARTNERS
The NFL’s marquee matchups usually are scheduled to air in the course of the week’s premier time slots — Thursday, Sunday or Monday nights or the late recreation on Sunday afternoons. The league usually schedules the Tremendous Bowl champion at residence for the Thursday evening recreation that kicks off the brand new season.
This season, the league additionally scheduled six Saturday video games – two every throughout Weeks 16, 17, and 18.
Most NFL video games are performed on Sunday afternoons, with early video games beginning at 1:00 p.m. ET and the late video games beginning at both 4:05 p.m. ET or 4:25 p.m. ET, relying on whether or not the sport is a part of a community doubleheader.
The Sunday afternoon video games are broadcast on CBS and FOX; for the third straight 12 months, video games shouldn’t have a predetermined community task based mostly on convention affiliation of collaborating groups. This permits the scheduling group extra flexibility to construct Sunday afternoon home windows throughout CBS and FOX.
The schedule will function two double-doubleheaders on CBS and FOX and each market will see 4 Sunday afternoon video games in Weeks 15 and 18. Over Weeks 1–14, 16-17, FOX and CBS will every have eight doubleheaders. In these weeks, one community will present video games in each Sunday afternoon time slots, whereas the opposite will air just one recreation in both of the 2 time slots. Doubleheader weeks typically alternate between networks, however not at all times. It’s attainable for one community to have doubleheaders on consecutive weeks, however not three weeks in a row.
Doubleheader weeks typically alternate between networks, however not at all times. It’s attainable for one community to have doubleheaders on consecutive weeks, however not three weeks in a row.
NBC will televise all Sunday evening video games in Weeks 1-18, as nicely the Thursday evening Kickoff recreation in Philadelphia in Week 1 and a Cincinnati at Baltimore Thanksgiving evening matchup (8:20 p.m. ET).
Thursday Night time Soccer will air completely on Prime Video, kicking off its slate in Week 2. Prime Video will broadcast 15 Thursday Night time Soccer video games between Weeks 2-17 (excluding Thanksgiving evening and together with Christmas) and completely stream the third annual NFL Black Friday recreation. ESPN or ABC will air all Monday evening video games in Weeks 1-17.