JWL wrote:Does anybody know why CBS got one game this weekend? It used to be in recent years that ESPN or ABC or NBC would get the Saturday Wild Card games and then it would be CBS and FOX the rest of the way until the Super Bowl (and then that could still be CBS or FOX).
The new TV deal. Which added ESPN (and after the first year simulcast on ABC) for a wild card game and changed to where NBC gets a wild card game and a divisional game.
So 2014 season NBC had a divisional round game, CBS had one, FOX had both NFC.
Last season the opposite, CBS had both AFC games and FOX & NBC split the NFC games (note: WC round CBS had the Sat. night game and NBC had Sunday morning game)
Rotational so back to CBS only having one this weekend for this season.
Within that there doesn't appear to be a set NBC time slot in the divisional round. 2014 they had the earliy Saturday game, last season had the Saturday night game and this season were set to have the early Sunday game until the move to Sunday night.