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The last Thursday Night Football of the year on CBS went out record breaking large for the Baltimore Ravens. Playing at home last night, the 2012 Super Bowl champions' shutout the Miami Dolphins 40-0 to break a two-game losing streak. While quarterback Joe Flacco was knocked out with a concussion, the Ravens not only…

UPDATED, 2:05 PM: Last night's Thursday Night Football turns out to be, to paraphrase Herman's Hermits, a case of third verse same as the first. With the final numbers now in, the Philadelphia Eagles vs. the Carolina Panthers game saw the City of Brotherly Love team win, the national anthem not shown and CBS and the NF…

Ten years ago last week, the NFL’s first Thursday Night Football game was played. On Sunday, after much grumbling about the quality of midweek games and amid lower ratings this season, a report surfaced that the league might bench its experiment. Not so fast, the NFL said today. The NFL just issued a statement saying…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed broadcaster Rich Eisen, who has been a key player at NFL Network since being hired away from ESPN before the network launched. He is also the host of The Rich Eisen Show on DirecTV's Audience Network. That daily show, in its third season, bridges sports and pop culture, and Eisen has…

2nd UPDATE, 2:29 PM: The New York Jets beat the Buffalo Bills 37-31 last night on the season kickoff of Thursday Night Football but there is no big win for CBS and the NFL Network. Twitter, on the other hand, had a good night with the live streaming of its first NFL full game. With the final numbers in, the 8:27…

UPDATED, 7:12 PM: The NFL regular season is about a month away, and Dish subscribers who are fans can exhale now. The No. 2 satcaster has reached a deal with the league to carry its NFL Network and NFL RedZone, more than six weeks after they went dark in a carriage dispute. Dish said in a brief statement tonight that…

BREAKING: The coveted Thursday Night Football package has a new home — and an old one. The NFL has reached a deal with CBS and NBC to share the primetime Thursday package with its NFL Network. CBS had split the games with the league-owned cable net the past two seasons. Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva reported January 13…

2ND UPDATE, 12:46 PM: The final score is in for last night’s 2015-16 NFL season debut of Thursday Night Football on CBS and its pretty much on the money with 2014. Payton Manning and the Denver Broncos 31-24 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs was watched by 21.18 million viewers on CBS and NFL Network. That’s up 2%…

UPDATED, September 8: NFL Media said today that Season 1 of its new docuseries will be titled Football Town: Barrow, Alaska. Watch the trailer above. PREVIOUSLY, August 31: As Los Angeles begins another football season without a pro team — sorry, L.A. Kiss — the NFL Network is continuing its push into original…

UPDATED 2:49 PM: Phoenix police have officially booked Warren Sapp on two misdemeanor counts of assault and one of soliciting a prostitute, and the NFL Network now says it has fired him. “Warren Sapp's contract has been terminated, and he no longer works for NFL Network,” network spokesman Alex Riethmiller said in a…

UPDATE, 1:45 PM: About 20.8 million viewers watched CBS' first Thursday NFL football game after the pregame package was viewed by 10.63 million. The game, which followed a pregame show-turned-NFL Ray Rice Scandal update, clocked a 7.5/24 demo rating. The overall audience is way up from the 14.2 million viewers CBS…

The NFL Network’s main man has a new side job. Rich Eisen, poached from ESPN by the NFL Network to be its lead guy at launch in 2003, has signed to do a daily talk show on DirecTV’s Audience Network. The Rich Eisen Show will mix football analysis with pop culture and humor and interviews with big names in sports and…