Word: nfl
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...Turner and Rupert Murdoch was little more than a battle between two egotistical billionaires. That has all changed now that Time Warner and Fox are in the midst of a game of chicken that could cut off access of the Fox network to 1.5 million viewers just as the NFL playoffs and Super Bowl are set to begin. Time Warner says Fox is threatening to pull its signal in five cities -- Austin, Texas; Tampa, Florida; Kansas City, Missouri; Milwaukee and Detroit -- in retaliation for Time Warner's refusal to carry the Fox news channel in New York. Fox counters...
...forever be remembered as the standard by which all sports executives are judged," New York Giants owner Wellington Mara said. "He did more for professional football and the NFL than any other sports executive has done...
Rozelle built the NFL by linking the game with television, creating Monday Night Football and the Super Bowl, which blossomed into America's most-watched sporting event...
...Rozelle who brought sports into 10 figures when he negotiated a landmark fiveyear, $2.1 billion contract with television's three major networks in 1982. Then he expanded the NFL's TV exposure to cable, selling a Sunday night series to ESPN as part of the next contract...
...biggest contribution, however, may have been introducing revenue-sharing in pro football 30 years before it created havoc in other sports. Doing so allowed teams in minor markets like Green Bay to equally share TV revenues -- the biggest part of the NFL pie -- with teams in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles...