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The NFL is out with the schedule for its 100th-anniversary regular season. Check out the list of all 2019 primetime, Thanksgiving and international games below. The regular season again will kick off on a Thursday night. But in a departure from recent years, the defending Super Bowl champion won’t be playing in it…

Departing from its usual custom of allowing the Super Bowl champions to host the opening game of the following season, the NFL said its 100th season will open with the league’s oldest rivalry, between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers. NBC will host the contest on Thursday, September 5, under a rights deal that…

After the national anthem controversy took a toll on NFL last fall, pushing down TV ratings, the games’ performance recovered in 2018, with the main football franchises all posting year-to-year gains. The recently concluded 13th season of NBC’s Sunday Night Football drew an average of 19.3 million Live+same day…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight’s season and likely series finale of Murphy Brown If the revived Murphy Brown is really and truly ending for good with tonight's Season 11 finale, creator Diane English made sure the Emmy winning journalism comedy went out with a mix of fictionalized bigwigs and…

In the kind of game that makes football fans proud of their devotion, it came down to the final minutes in last night's matchup between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Kansas City Chiefs in the final Thursday Night Football of the season on Fox. At the end, and after some verbal flubs by ESPN's Stephen A. Smith…

UPDATED with additional ratings: If last night's Thursday Night Football blowout of the Jacksonville Jaguars by the Tennessee Titans proves anything, it’s that what goes up also goes down. Fueled by a triumphant and NFL history-making performance by running back Derrick Henry, the Volunteer State team crushed the…

The end of the New Orleans Saints' 10-game winning streak was a good night for the Dallas Cowboys and a very good Thursday Night Football for the NFL and Fox. Built around a defense first strategy, that Week 13 13-10 win for self-described America's Team puts the Jerry Jones-owned franchise solidly in playoff…

It was cold as Hell in NYC for the 92nd Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade yesterday but, along with that New Orleans and Atlanta Falcons primetime game, the ratings were hot for NBC on Thanksgiving. Along with a historic kiss, the morning parade saw the likes of the Grinch, Frozen's Olaf, Tom Turkey, clowns, marching…

The Seattle Seahawks’ fourth-quarter rally helped them beat the Green Bay Packers 27-24 on Thursday Night Football last night in a rematch of their epic 2015 NFC Championship Game. The result kept the Seahawks’ playoff chances intact, while severely denting Aaron Rodgers’ team’s postseason aspirations. A main…

It started out well for the Carolina Panthers, but the good times didn't last long as Cam Newton and the boys were pummeled by the Pittsburgh Steelers 52-21 in the Steel City on Thursday Night Football. There was a somber air to the game in a town still in deep mourning for the 11 people murdered in the Tree of Life…

If Fox and the NFL thought they were going to score with two struggling teams going head-to-head on Thursday Night Football, the San Francisco 49ers’ 34-3 demolition of the Oakland Raiders relieved them of that notion. Add to the fact that one of the cheerleaders for Colin Kaepernick’s old team seemed to be taking a…

UPDATED with additional broadcast ratings: The World Series was dark Thursday as the Los Angeles Dodgers and Boston Red Sox relocated to the City of Angels for tonight's Game 3, but Fox had a pretty good night anyway in baseball's absence with a rising Thursday Night Football. Taking the top spot in the demo and total…