NFL Sunday Ticket HD Game update:

[LonghornXP]

Well it looks like CBS will be doing 3 games every week in HDTV in addition to Fox HD coverage. Also CBS will be doing all post season coverage in HDTV as well. Here are the first 5 weeks of HDTV games for Fox only. This does not include any CBS games but when that information is available I or someone else will make it known.

FOX HD NFL GAMES THROUGH WEEK 5

Week 1 - Sunday, September 12
1:00p
Detroit Lions @ Chicago Bears
Tampa Bay Bucs @ Washington Redskins
Arizona Cardinals @ St. Louis Rams
4:00p
Dallas Cowboys @ Minnesota Vikings
NY Giants @ Philadelphia Eagles
Atlanta Falcons @ SF 49ers

Week 2 - Sunday, September 19
1:00p
Washington Redskins @ NY Giants
Chicago Bears @ Green Bay Packers
St. Louis Rams @ Atlanta Falcons
SF 49ers @ New Orleans Saints
Carolina Panthers @ Kansas City Chiefs
4:00p
Seattle Seahawks @ Tampa Bay Bucs

Week 3 - Sunday, September 26
1:00p
Chicago Bears @ Minnesota Vikings
Philadelphia Eagles @ Detroit Lions
Arizona Cardinals @ Atlanta Falcons
New Orleans Saints @ St Louis Rams
4:00p
Green Bay Packers @ Indianapolis Colts
SF 49ers @ Seattle Seahawks

Week 4 - Sunday, October 3
1:00p
NY Giants @ Green Bay Packers
Philadelphia Eagles @ Chicago Bears
Washington Redskins @ Cleveland Browns
4:00p
New Orleans Saints @ Arizona Cardinals
Atlanta Falcons @ Carolina Panthers

Week 5 - Sunday, October 10
1:00p
NY Giants @ Dallas Cowboys
Minnesota Vikings @ Houston Texans
Tampa Bay Bucs @ New Orleans Saints
4:00p
Carolina Panthers @ Denver Broncos
Arizona Cardinals @ SF 49ers
St. Louis Rams @ Seattle Seahawks

Now be aware that for the Bucs week 3 will be in HDTV via ESPN Sunday Night football and week 4 is a CBS 4:15 game against Denver that last time I checked is a CBS national game so its a very good chance to have this game be one of the three in HDTV. So right now we will have at least 4 of the first 5 games in HDTV and at best all five bucs games in HDTV so this is a great start.

Also be aware that both CBS and Fox games broadcast on local stations will be blacked out on the Sunday Ticket package. This doesn't just apply to our local teams but all games on our local CBS and Fox stations. Those games will still be in HDTV but will have to be watched via OTA or via BHN on channels (OTA 10-1 and 13-1 or BHN 610 and 613). Hope this helps you all out. So for those of you without the NFL Sunday Ticket package with BHN will get at best 4 of 5 and at worst 3 of 5. Those of you without Sunday Ticket but have another provider that has ESPN HD you will just add one more game to those numbers.

I think this could hurt BHN very much is the Bucs do get the CBS game in HD and all Fox games in HDTV and MNF in HD. Would customers be pissed that the only Bucs games they couldn't get in HDTV were ESPN HD games. That could very well happen. We only have on ESPN game. But we have two CBS games with the first being against Denver at 4:15 with a high chance of being HD and if we are winning and the Chiefs are winning we would have a very good chance of having another 1pm CBS game in HDTV and that would give a customer like me even without the Sunday Ticket pacakge all bucs games in HDTV because if we win the superbowl all our playoff games and the superbowl will be in HDTV as well.

[bdraw]

I was wondering how they decide who covers the game when it is AFC vs NFC?
I figured if the home team was the NFC then Fox would cover it?
Or do they have some other way of deciding?

[LonghornXP]

I'm not sure what you are saying but I answer it with what I know.

First off Fox covers all the NFC conference games and CBS covers all the AFC conference games. Also that HDTV list only shows the HD games broadcast by Fox and does not show the 3 CBS HD games per week that DirecTV and CBS will announce later this month.

Also if you were talking about how they decide who gets the double header game than I will answer this as well. The double header game is rotated every week so nothing fancy. Fox gets it one week and CBS gets it the next week and so on and so forth.

Oh I think I know what you were talking about. If we play an AFC team at home CBS gets to broadcast that game. Now if we play an AFC team away than the Fox gets the right to broadcast this game. I think thats the way it works. Now I'm not sure if it always goes to CBS if we play an AFC team but you could say this both ways that why doesn't Fox get the rights when they play an NFC team so that makes me think that if an AFC and an NFC team play each other if the AFC team is home than Fox will get it and if an AFC team is away than CBS will get it.