the nfl has been doing thursday night football since 2014.
the nfl has been doing thursday night football since 2014.
how long has the nfl been doing thursday night football?
2014
debuting on november 23, 2006, the telecasts were originally part of nfl network's run to the playoffs package, which consisted of eight total games broadcast on thursday and saturday nights (five on thursdays, and three on saturdays, originally branded as saturday night football) during the latter portion of the season. since 2012, the "tnf" package has begun during the second week of the nfl season; the nfl kickoff game and the nfl on thanksgiving are both broadcast as part of nbc sports' "sunday night football" contract and are not included in "thursday night football", although the thanksgiving primetime game was previously part of the package from 2006 until 2011.
thursday night football
in addition to the regional games, the league also has packages of telecasts, mostly in prime time, that are carried nationwide. nbc broadcasts the primetime "sunday night football" package', which includes the thursday nfl kickoff game that starts the regular season and a primetime thanksgiving day game. espn carries all monday night football games. the nfl's own network, nfl network, broadcasts a series titled "thursday night football", which was originally exclusive to the network, but which in recent years has had several games simulcast on cbs (since 2014) and nbc (since 2016) (except the thanksgiving and kickoff games, which remain exclusive to nbc). for the 2017 season, the nfl network will broadcast 18 regular season games under its "thursday night football" brand, 16 thursday-evening contests (10 of which are simulcast on either nbc or cbs) as well as one of the nfl international series games on a sunday morning and one of the 2017 christmas afternoon games. in addition, 10 of the thursday night games will be streamed live on amazon prime. in 2017, the nfl games occupied the top three rates for a 30-second advertisement: $699,602 for sunday night football, $550,709 for thursday night football (nbc), and $549,791 for thursday night football (cbs).
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