BBC to show NFL on Monday nights

[MadMullah]

bbc said:

The BBC is to broadcast the NFL's Monday Night Football for the 2012 season.
Coverage starts on 10 September, with Cincinnati Bengals playing Baltimore Ravens and San Diego Chargers facing Oakland Raiders.
The games will be live on the BBC Red Button and BBC Sport website, while Radio 5 live sports extra will also have at least one commentary per week.
The season finishes with the Super Bowl on 3 February 2013.
There will also be BBC coverage of the Wembley clash between the New England Patriots and St Louis Rams on Sunday, 28 October, as well as weekly play-off highlights in January.
Radio 5 live sports extra's first game will be the match between Super Bowl champions New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys.

should be good - glad its on a mainstream channel and not a sky

[davepoth]

MadMullah said:

should be good - glad its on a mainstream channel and not a sky

I give it two seasons before it attracts a decent audience, and then Sky will offer ten times the cash and buy it up.

[Cheib]

davepoth said:

MadMullah said:

should be good - glad its on a mainstream channel and not a sky

I give it two seasons before it attracts a decent audience, and then Sky will offer ten times the cash and buy it up.

NFL got a lot of coverage here in the late 80's/early90's even if it was only Channel 4 and it didn't catch on....there was also a hell of a lot less sport for it to compete with. Don't see it being different this time around.

If it did catch on they would be bonkers to take Sky's money.....they can't deliver the audience the BBC can. Whatever Sky offered would be small change compared to existing commercial revenues too....would make no sense at all.

[D1ngd0ng]

davepoth said:

MadMullah said:

should be good - glad its on a mainstream channel and not a sky

I give it two seasons before it attracts a decent audience, and then Sky will offer ten times the cash and buy it up.

You'd think that after 20 years of coverage if it was going to happen then it would have done. Good to see it on another mainstream channel though (C4 have had SNF for a few seasons again now) think sky are quite unhappy that the beeb are getting the SB again (didn't we miss week 1 last year as they were still wrangling over broadcasting rights?)

[tj2002]

Think I read the other day that sky have got over 60 live NFL games over the next 2 seasons too

[y2blade]

davepoth said:

MadMullah said:

should be good - glad its on a mainstream channel and not a sky

I give it two seasons before it attracts a decent audience, and then Sky will offer ten times the cash and buy it up.

Win win then

great news

[kingstondc5]

Whats the earliest time a game starts over here or are they all going to be midnight onwards?

[FellowPazzini]

Oh the good old days of Beverly Knight presenting the NBA show and that Kevin whathisface presenting the NFL version. Shall be checking out the new show if it's on at decent times.

[amare32]

FellowPazzini said:

Oh the good old days of Beverly Knight presenting the NBA show and that Kevin whathisface presenting the NFL version. Shall be checking out the new show if it's on at decent times.

It was Kevin Cadle who presented the NBA show on C4. The good 'ol days.

So the BBC is spending the cash that they didn't want to spend on F1 and bought in rights to show what is minor sport in the UK?

I'd rather if they spent the dough on NBA rather than NFL. I don't mind either as I used to watch a bit of NFL in the 90s but still watch the Superbowl.

[MadMullah]

i think its a good move

especially now they have this london game

[London424]

kingstondc5 said:

Whats the earliest time a game starts over here or are they all going to be midnight onwards?

Well they are only showing Monday Night Football which I think kicks off around 7 pm. So midnight UK. Most games are about 3 hours long, so a pretty late night for a Monday.

I'll stick to the 2 games on Sunday on Sky...or even better just watch RedZone.

[D1ngd0ng]

amare32 said:

It was Kevin Cadle who presented the NBA show on C4. The good 'ol days.

So the BBC is spending the cash that they didn't want to spend on F1 and bought in rights to show what is minor sport in the UK?

I'd rather if they spent the dough on NBA rather than NFL. I don't mind either as I used to watch a bit of NFL in the 90s but still watch the Superbowl.

More like they were given the games for a negligible fee. The NFL are desperate to keep expanding the fan base in the uk.