No more "NFL Primetime" in 2006!

[Michael82]

Mike McCarley, vice president of communications and marketing for NBC, said, “They (NFL) came to us with a flexible scheduling idea. Sunday night was the one night that made sense for us.” Plans are for the network to begin with a 7 p.m. pre-game show followed by an 8:15 kickoff.

Another plus for NBC is that no one, including ESPN, will be able to air any NFL highlights until midnight or after on Sunday. “So people will be tuning into NBC for highlights,” said McCarley.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/sports/s_347802.html

[Michael82]

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Maybe NBC will try to pry Chris Berman away from ESPN.

[Pride]

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why dont thye just put it on ESPN2?

[BillsFanInMass]

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wow this sucks i like to record all of the bills primetime highlights everyweek. Im gonna miss primetime it was the best highlight show imo .

[Michael82]

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why dont thye just put it on ESPN2?

Because nobody is allowed to show highlights until after the NBC game is over, at midnight.

NBC will probably do their own cheesy version of the NFL Primetime show.

[Meathead]

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By far.

[The_Philster]

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Booooooo

[Jayhawk]

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[BillsPride12]

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That's a shame, the best football show of all-time besides an actual football game IMO

[Akhippo]

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Will there be any football highlight show by ESPN. Not giving the best in the biz a oppurtunity, and leaving it up to some network that cant even get their booth straight just up and sucks. If the networks do have some highlight show, itll probably be biased to the same ole same ole big market teams showing the suckups they are.

[Turf]

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So move Primetime up to 6 pm. Actually thats a bad idea too.
I'm surprised ESPN got stiffed like this. They do more for the NFL, high def as well, than any other network. Berman is the most popular football guy out there.

[Luisito23]

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R.I.P. NFL PRIIIIIIIIIIME TIME!!!


Imma miss u Boomer....


GO BILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Zero]

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well at least they can still do an NFL primtime show , just not on sunday. Though it does suck not having to see it on sunday like we are used to, ESPN dosent have to lose the show altogether.....right?

[Charlieguide]

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well at least they can still do an NFL primtime show , just not on sunday. Though it does suck not having to see it on sunday like we are used to, ESPN dosent have to lose the show altogether.....right?

Good point. It might just be a combined Primtime/Monday Night Countdown, which is basically what we've seen Mondays, anyway. Berman and Jackson have been doing this way too long to get ko'd by a lousy contract clause. I don't see the point. And of course, no major network news show will air a story about this, for fear of causing bad blood and losing NFL rights.

I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to send some feedback to the NFL about this.

[Bill Brasky]

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that really sucks. primetime, though it has sort of gone downhill the last few years, was still a sweet show. Berman is annoying though, I like hearing what Tom Jackson has to say, at least he analyzed instead of giving me headache with a schtick...

all I hope is that NBC doesn't put some lameass like Costas or Enberg on highlight duty... if that's the case, then I'd rather wait til midnight and get highlights from somewhere else.