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08 Sep 2010

NFL Distribution Maps For Week 1

That great resource -- the NFL TV Distribution Maps -- are back for another season.

Question: Why does the very bottom of Southern California get Jacksonville-Denver instead of Oakland-Tennessee?

Posted by: Bill Barnwell on 08 Sep 2010

38 comments, Last at 15 Sep 2010, 11:16am by Mr Shush

Comments

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by Dan Summers (not verified) :: Wed, 09/08/2010 - 3:20pm

Because that's where San Diego is, so they are getting the AFC West game.

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by Eddo :: Wed, 09/08/2010 - 3:23pm

Oakland plays in the NFC west, too.

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by Dan Summers (not verified) :: Wed, 09/08/2010 - 3:51pm

Man I am having a bad day, and I whiffed in my head on Oakland being in the West.

Anyhoo, looks like the AFC West preferable game is DEN/JAX, since KC gets it too. The Oakland market is just largeish.

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by Bobman :: Thu, 09/09/2010 - 6:26am

Then I'll set you up with an easy one: Since the Seahawks are now in the NFC (for almost a decade?) how come the Raiders are on TV in Seattle every possible opportunity?

There are literally times that, for example, an 8-1 Steelers team will play a 9-0 Colts team and instead, the local CBS affiliate will show the 1-7 Raiders taking on the 1-7 Browns. This is only a slight exaggeration, but division leaders going head to head are routinely stiffed for the Raiders trying to play their way out of a large paper bag, and all I can figure is because of a FORMER rivalry.

Kill me, please....

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by drsayis2 :: Thu, 09/09/2010 - 1:36pm

Literally?

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by justme_cd :: Thu, 09/09/2010 - 3:34pm

You're looking at it wrong. I'd bet 1-7 vs. 1-7 is going to be an epic game a higher % of time than 9-0 vs. 8-1

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by CM (not verified) :: Thu, 09/09/2010 - 5:22pm

That's because it's perceived that there are a lot of Raider fans here from those days. I don't think that's true, but they are vocal enough to make it seem so.

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by george (not verified) :: Wed, 09/08/2010 - 3:23pm

Looks like the san diego area. Perhaps the idea is that Charger fans would care more about the denver game than the oakland game (since Denver and SD have fought more for the AFC West division title in recent seasons).

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by Big Johnson :: Thu, 09/09/2010 - 3:46pm

as a san diego fan and living semi close to the san diego area ill agree with you. I feel like denver can luck into taking the AFC west but that the raiders cant possibly get that lucky.

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by rdy4thefiesta :: Wed, 09/08/2010 - 3:28pm

The map might be a little off but it looks like St. Louis will not be getting the Arizona/St. Louis game. Ouch.

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by Phrim :: Wed, 09/08/2010 - 4:12pm

If you look at the comments, the guy who runs the site said that FOX is expecting a blackout.

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by justanothersteve :: Wed, 09/08/2010 - 4:30pm

As a Packers fan in St Louis, I'm happy. I don't have to go to a sports bar to watch GB @ Philly.

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by Dean :: Thu, 09/09/2010 - 9:23am

My plan is to go down to the dome. Scary thing is, I think I have a very good chance of being there for Sam Bradfords first NFL win.

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by Eddo :: Thu, 09/09/2010 - 10:18am

Is that how it works? I thought that, if the local game is blacked out, no NFL coverage will be shown on that channel.

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by zlionsfan :: Thu, 09/09/2010 - 1:25pm

According to Wikipedia, other games can be shown providing they comply with the other regulations, so in this case, if I understand correctly, Fox would still have shown a doubleheader and CBS would have shown only an early game in St. Louis.

That doesn't match what I seem to remember - I thought that back when the Colts didn't sell out, you'd get garbage on CBS rather than a game - but things may have changed since then.

Also, the St. Louis game will not be blacked out (from what later comments have said), so I guess this is all hypothetical for now ...

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by Jerry :: Thu, 09/09/2010 - 6:16pm

This week is a special case since CBS doesn't have any 4:00 (Eastern) games due to the U.S. Open final.

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by Drakos (not verified) :: Wed, 09/08/2010 - 5:28pm

They might have sold the tickets by now, but earlier in the week they hadn't sold out yet and the game was going to be blacked out in St. Louis.

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by andrew :: Wed, 09/08/2010 - 3:30pm

Wow, the Rams are on in parts of Missouri and Illinois near St. Louis, but not in fact St. Louis itself.

I was also wondering why Florida got the Denver game, figured it had to be the Tebow factor... until I remembered that Jacksonville was also in the game.

"I was corrupt before I had power!" - Random

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by Nitin (not verified) :: Wed, 09/08/2010 - 4:09pm

The SD CBS affiliate generally shows the Denver game when there's a choice of AFC West rivals, presumably because the Chargers/Broncos rivalry has been the most heated since 2005.

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by Bill Barnwell :: Wed, 09/08/2010 - 4:10pm

FOX is assuming that the St. Louis game will be blacked out. Areas just outside the blackout zone will get the game.

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by LinebackerU :: Wed, 09/08/2010 - 5:03pm

Does anyone know of similar maps for college football? ABC/ESPN is good about showing theirs before the 2nd game of the day, but I haven't found one online...

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by Marko :: Wed, 09/08/2010 - 8:56pm

Try this: http://www.hdsportsguide.com/news/2010/abc-coverage-map-for-september-11...

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by chappy (not verified) :: Wed, 09/08/2010 - 5:38pm

And why does the Richmond, VA area get the Colts- game when its neighbors get the NE-Bengals game? I could care less, but it seems odd.

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by Dales :: Wed, 09/08/2010 - 9:14pm

Colts used to be in Baltimore. Still have fans there.

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by Bobman :: Thu, 09/09/2010 - 6:28am

See, and I thought it was so Ravens fans could launch flaming bags of dog poo at their TVs while making fun of Manning, Polian, the whole Irsay family, etc....

silly me.

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by chappy (not verified) :: Thu, 09/09/2010 - 1:00pm

This doesn't seem right to me. Call me crazy but wouldn't Richmond be Redskins country? Basically the rest of Virginia is.

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by zlionsfan :: Thu, 09/09/2010 - 1:26pm

Absolutely, but that doesn't affect AFC games, only NFC and interconference games.

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by Overrated (not verified) :: Wed, 09/08/2010 - 10:15pm

Also, Schaub is a UVA grad and has been drawing that audience for a while now, if I remember correctly.

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by Mr Shush :: Thu, 09/09/2010 - 7:26am

Meanwhile Sky, in their infinite wisdom, have decided that the must-see games are Panthers@Giants and 49ers@Seahawks. I know we're going to get constant Niners and Broncos coverage because of the Wembley game, but really?

Thank God for Gamepass.

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by James-London :: Thu, 09/09/2010 - 8:41am

No SKY for me this year so I need to find alternatives and fast. Is Gamepass worth the money?

Phil Simms is a Cretin.

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by Jim Kimber (not verified) :: Thu, 09/09/2010 - 3:18pm

James,
GamePass is worth much more than it costs. It really is good. Superb HD resolution, the archived games have all the adverts taken out so you can watch the Sunday and Monday night games the next day at a sensible time in 2 hrs rather than 3 and a half, and this year you can watch up to 4 games at the same time, which sounds good to me.
I was debating with a friend about how much I would have to pay before I was priced out and just listened to it on the radio like in the good old days (from 1987 till Internet came along that meant AFN radio broadcast from Frankfurt on medium wave with the most god-awful reception that you could only hear even faintly through the crackles if your radio was positioned at certain angle and in a certain location in the room and would inevitably disappear completely when a good game was reaching its climax (especially when the Packers were playing), and which was the same frequency as a Spanish opera station...) anyway, I digress. I reckon I would have to pay 3 times what it costs, at least before I decided not to pay it. But don't tell the NFL that please.
I also have the ESPN Player for college games (it's called ESPN3 this year, was ESPN360 last year), which ought to be good value at £90 for the season, and they appear to have a superb range of games this year, but it wasn't working last weekend and I don't believe it has yet been fixed, so you may want to wait until it is working before committing. You can buy a one week pass to check it out if you like, or a monthly pass.
And yes, my Internet provider got stroppy with me last year for using too much bandwidth during the American Football season...

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by Mr Shush :: Wed, 09/15/2010 - 11:16am

Seconded. Gamepass is awesome, and even more so now that they've fixed the technical issues that would plague it in the early weeks of each season for its first few years. It's murdering my productivity, but yes, it's absolutely worth the money.

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by BJR :: Thu, 09/09/2010 - 9:43am

49ers/Seahawks ahead of Packers/Eagles is a shocker. I can only imagine Sky are contractually obliged to show some 49ers games as part of the agreement with the NFL regarding the Wembley fixture.

The Panthers/Giants game is odd because Colts/Texans and Bengals/Pats look like much more attractive matchups. I guess they figure they'll probably be screening plenty of Colts and Pats anyway before the season is out.

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by RichC (not verified) :: Thu, 09/09/2010 - 8:53am

Awesome. Apparantly Washington DC falls in the Virgina (Carolina maybe? WTH?) market and not the Maryland/Baltimore market, so I get the wonderful Chiefs/Jacksonville, instead of NE/Cinci

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by Ed (not verified) :: Thu, 09/09/2010 - 12:22pm

Hi,

The website is blocked at my work. Can someone let me know if NYC gets NE / Cin?

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by muteant :: Thu, 09/09/2010 - 12:34pm

Ed: NYC is getting NE/CIN, yes.

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by Will Allen :: Thu, 09/09/2010 - 3:21pm

I usually prefer former coaches to former players as analysts, but if the Jim Mora listed as working with Dick Stockton and Charles Davis is Mora the Younger, that's another team which will have the volume turned down on them.

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by bengal85 :: Fri, 09/10/2010 - 3:12am

I remember checking this every week last season, and always being pissed about the crap games in the san fran market... 9ers raiders every week, with no other games half the time. I literally watched every game at the old pro in Palo Alto. Mind you, I live in Oakland.

Then I got Directv and the ticket.

This just reiterates how excited I am. This Sunday will literally be a dream come true. Bengals, at home, 60 inch elite, HD.

Who. Dey.

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