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NFL Turns Down OLN

by Paul on 01/28/06 at 03:21 PM ET
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The plans of OLN expanding their sports coverage takes a major hit with the NFL picking the NFL Network to telecast games in 2006. from the NY Times,

The National Football League will place eight prime-time Thursday and Saturday games on its NFL Network starting in 2006, a senior league executive said. The league had been negotiating intently in recent weeks with Comcast, the largest cable operator in the country, about putting games on what would be a reconstituted OLN network and expanding distribution of the NFL Network on Comcast systems, where it is carried on a digital tier. But yesterday morning, the league decided not to go into business with Comcast and to put the games on the NFL Network, which has had preseason games but no regular-season broadcasts. Comcast had no comment.

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