On February 1, 2016, the league announced that NBC had won a partial share of "Thursday Night Football" rights for the 2016 season; as a result, five additional Thursday night games (in addition the kickoff and Thanksgiving contests) in the later part of the season had been added to NBC's schedule. NBC Sports was also responsible for producing five games that was exclusive to NFL Network. After the 2017 season, NBC insisted on a reduced rights fee in order to continue carrying "Thursday Night Football", which the NFL rejected; Fox was then awarded the rights to "Thursday Night Football" for the remainder of the time left on the league's broadcast contracts. NBC continued to carry the kickoff and Thanksgiving night games on Thursdays.