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http://www.the506.com/nflmaps/The link above gives you a listing of the games on the NFL net. I wonder if the tiff between the NFL and Comcast had any bearing on the games scheduled for that network?? Take for example our game with Pittsburgh. Unless Steeler fans go to Cleveland to either attend the game or go somewhere that has the NFL net, they won't be able to watch that game......same goes for our fans who don't live in the Cleveland viewing market.....not to mentions football fams who like to watch a big game of interest. A quick look at the games scheduled for Thurs. nights show many games the average fan would like to see but won't be able to watch.. Oh well 
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Don't the national games always try and show the best game though?
What I think would be interesting is if you could lay a distribution map of comcast service with the teams that play each night. Did the NFL network choose teams who were in cable areas where NFL network is not carried to cause an outrage to get the cable company to add it?
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Unless somethings changed since last year, if the NFL Net was broadcasting a game for Cleveland and it was sold out, we still got the game on a local station.. Either CBS, Fox or NBC (depending on the day of the game)
So I don't know if there is any difference....
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Not sure i understand your question.
NFL Net games are national TV games....broadcast on the NFL Net...you can only view them if you have the NFL net.....and in most cases, they are the Thursday night games late in the season, so it is the only game being played.
The problem is Comcast and some of the other cable providers are either refusing to carry the NFL Net, or are placing it on a special sports tier that requires added payment.
The NFL wants it on the regular tier such as ESPN. I will hunt down a article that details the problem.
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I do have NFLN, but my cable company will not air any of the NFLN games.Which is stupid.  If the Browns are playing on NFLN, I have to go to a bar with DirectTV to watch.
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If I was y'all, I'd dump your cable provider and get directv or dish network. It won't be a perfect solution for everyone but it can be for the majority.
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Ballpeen,
To clarify. I was wondering if the NFL Network Purposefully choose games whose markets who are serviced by cable providers who do not have contracts with the NFL network.
IT is my understanding that there are some cable companies that have eracehd an agreement with the NFL Network.
For example using Hypotheticals.
Say the local Cable company in the Denver Area has an agreement with NFL network and the local cable company for Arizona does not carry Nfl network.
If the NFL Network choose to show more Cardinals games than say Denvers game in order to put pressure on the local cabl company to sign the deal,. then I would say tthat the NFL network is trying to strong in there way to getting the Arizona station to carry the NFl network
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I blame it on the cable company. Just make it a part of the basic package, it can't be that tough. They found a way to do it for the Big 10 network which I never watch. 
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Unless somethings changed since last year, if the NFL Net was broadcasting a game for Cleveland and it was sold out, we still got the game on a local station.. Either CBS, Fox or NBC (depending on the day of the game)
So I don't know if there is any difference....
Not all fans live in Cleveland, and not all Browns games are played at home....so sooner or later, YOU are going to miss out, at which point I am sure you will understand the problem.
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The NFLN's schedule of games this year isn't all that appealing to me. So my impression is the opposite, that this appears not so much a response to Comcast but to Congress which gave them warning last year when they did put some popular games on the NFL Network. I recall that Congress told the league that free television access went pretty much hand-in-hand with the granting of their special anti-trust provision which allows them to act as a cartel in selling broadcast rights to the networks. The message seems to have gotten through and the league has backed off this year. At least that's how I see it.
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Whatever happened to the anti-trust suit against the NFL Network?
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http://www.the506.com/nflmaps/
The link above gives you a listing of the games on the NFL net.
I wonder if the tiff between the NFL and Comcast had any bearing on the games scheduled for that network??
Take for example our game with Pittsburgh. Unless Steeler fans go to Cleveland to either attend the game or go somewhere that has the NFL net, they won't be able to watch that game......same goes for our fans who don't live in the Cleveland viewing market.....not to mentions football fams who like to watch a big game of interest.
A quick look at the games scheduled for Thurs. nights show many games the average fan would like to see but won't be able to watch..
Oh well
To maximize TV ratings, as well as protect the NFL's ability to sell TV rights collectively, games televised on ESPN or the NFL Network are simulcast on a local broadcast station in each of the primary markets of both teams (the Green Bay Packers have two primary markets, Green Bay and Milwaukee). However, the home team's market can only air the game if it is sold out within 72 hours of kick-off (see below).
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Again.....not all fans live in the market.
Cleveland has gone from a city of over a million to maybe 450,000....the suburbs have lost population as well.
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Personally, I don't have a problem with them making games nationally televised by putting them on the NFL Network. And before anyone asks, I no longer get the NFL network because I ditched cable altogether. It does allow a lot more fans to see the game that otherwise wouldn't. The groups that suffer, are people in secondary markets that can't get the NFLNetwork (ie Columbus, Youngstown (those that can't get the cleveland stations, etc.).
THe one thing I would love to see and won't happen... make the games available online via streaming. They could charge the 2 bucks or so a month they charge the cable companies and get a lot of business that way.
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