26 Facts About NFL Network

NFL Network is an American sports-oriented pay television network owned by the National Football League and is part of NFL Media, which includes NFL.

At the 2008 NFL Draft, NFL Network unveiled a revised logo that was updated to match the revised NFL logo introduced around the same time.

Unlike the updated logo for the league, the NFL Network's logo included subtle changes such as using a darker shade of blue and changing the "NFL" lettering to match that of the new league logo.

NFL Network unveiled an updated ticker at the start of the 2017 season, replacing the one used since the 2012 rebranding.

In May 2011, NFL Network announced that Brad Nessler and Mike Mayock would serve as the announcers for that season's game broadcasts.

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NFL Network Special is the current branding used for broadcasts of National Football League games aired by NFL Network.

In 2007, NFL Network used Saturday Night Football to brand these games, from 2008 through 2016 the games were branded as "special editions" of Thursday Night Football or a variant thereof .

Live preseason game broadcasts on NFL Network are blacked out in the home markets of both participating teams, where the game is broadcast on a local station; in those affected areas, an alternate feed of NFL Network is shown instead with a different preseason game, documentary programming, or a previously aired game.

NFL Network held the broadcast rights to the revived Arena Football League from 2010 to 2012.

The NFL Network stated that unlike when the NFL Network last showed interest in arena football, there would be no attempts to buy into the league.

NFL Network ceased airing Arena Football League games partway through the 2012 season as a result of ongoing labor problems within the league.

In 2006, NFL Network began a foray into televising college football bowl games, acquiring rights to the newly established Texas Bowl in Houston, the Insight Bowl, as well as two all-star events—the Senior Bowl and the Las Vegas All-American Classic .

In May 2019, NFL Network announced a four-year deal with Conference USA to air a weekly regular-season game on Saturday afternoons beginning in the 2019 season.

Since 2019, NFL Network has annually carried the Black College Football Hall of Fame Classic, a college football kickoff game that features a matchup of two historically black colleges and universities on the Sunday before Labor Day.

NFL Network aired two high school all-star games in June 2007: the Bayou Bowl between players from Texas and Louisiana on June 9, and the Big 33 Football Classic between players from Pennsylvania and Ohio on June 16 .

NFL Network expressed interest in picking up CFL games again beginning in the 2019 season after its previous deal with ESPN expired.

NFL Network HD is a 1080i high definition simulcast feed of NFL Network that launched in August 2004.

NFL Network was approved for distribution on Canadian television providers by the CRTC in 2004; Live Thursday Night Football games are blacked out on the feed distributed in Canada to protect local rightsholders TSN and CTV 2.

NFL Network is offered as part of DAZN's NFL Game Pass service as of 2017.

Since the 2017 season, NFL Network is a part of the IPTV subscription service DAZN, which offers NFL RedZone to German viewers.

Greg Aiello, an NFL Network spokesperson, stated that NBC and CBS would not have agreed to present the simulcast without clearing the game nationally, including the aforementioned markets.

NFL Network later filed a discrimination case against Comcast with the Federal Communications Commission, claiming that since Comcast does not charge an extra fee for the sports channels it owns, Versus and Golf Channel, it considered Comcast's move to charge extra for NFL Network unfair.

We further find that the pleadings and documentation present several factual disputes as to whether Comcast's retiering of the NFL Network is the result of Comcast's failure to obtain a financial interest in the NFL's programming.

NFL Network claimed that overall, Comcast saved $50 million a year in license fees by leaving the channel on its Sports Package, which in turn led to savings for its customers.

NFL Network had previously insisted that it would only allow cable providers to carry the network on basic tiers; Time Warner Cable stated it would only carry the network on a digital sports tier.

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NFL Network refused to be carried on Cablevision in 2004, but that this dispute ended in 2006, when the network was added to Cablevision.