2015 THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL BROADCAST SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED
Slate of 16 Regular-Season Games Features 13 Division Rivalries; Kicks Off with Denver vs. Kansas City on September 17
CBS and NFL Network Partner for Second Season Broadcasting Thursday Night Football
The CBS Television Network and NFL Network announce the Thursday Night Football prime time broadcast schedule for the 2015 NFL season. This season marks the second year CBS Sports and NFL Network are partnering to broadcast Thursday Night Football, a slate of 16 regular-season games kicking off September 17 with Denver at Kansas City.
This year’s schedule again showcases marquee match-ups with 13 of the 16 games featuring Division rivalries.
The 2015 Thursday Night Football schedule will feature games from Weeks 2-8 and Week 13 broadcast on CBS that also will be simulcast on NFL Network. The Thursday Night Football schedule in Weeks 9-11 and Weeks 14-16, including two Saturday games on December 19 and 26, will be televised on NFL Network, and will be simulcast on over-the-air stations in the primary markets of the participating teams. All Thursday Night Football games will kick off at 8:25 PM ET.
The Thursday Night Football schedule is highlighted by Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh (Week 4), Atlanta vs. New Orleans (Week 6), Seattle at San Francisco (Week 7), Buffalo vs. New York Jets (Week 10), as well as Green Bay vs. Detroit (Week 13).
The entire 16-game Thursday Night Football schedule will also be streamed live on the NFL Mobile from Verizon app (NFL.com/mobile), the NFL app on XBOX, including interactive features from Microsoft, and through Watch NFL Network (NFL.com/watch), with participating cable and satellite providers. Watch NFL Network (NFL.com/Watch) for eligible subscribers of AT&T U-verse, Charter, Cox, DirecTV, Dish, Optimum, Verizon FiOS and many more providers.
CBS Sports will produce the full slate of 16 Thursday Night Football games. The announce team of Jim Nantz, Phil Simms and reporter Tracy Wolfson return to call the Thursday Night Football action.
This season marks both the 56th year of NFL broadcasts on the CBS Television Network and the tenth year of Thursday Night Football games on NFL Network. In addition, CBS will conclude its year broadcasting the NFL with the exclusive presentation of SUPER BOWL 50 from Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Feb. 7, 2016, marking the Network’s 19th Super Bowl telecast, the most by any broadcaster.
3 of these will be outstanding games.
ReplyDeleteI love the game but Thursday night are just not right for football but more importantly, Elementary will be disrupted...AGAIN.
ReplyDeleteMy guess is though that because it's disrupting the schedule and too difficult to launch a new show on Thursday, they'll just leave Elementary on Thursday instead of shipping it off to Friday or Sunday, which is fine by me.
ReplyDeleteI've never quite understood how they choose which teams play when. I know there are some traditions that come into play. But it's anybody's guess whether these will be games worth watching.
ReplyDeleteBoo! Hiss!
ReplyDeleteWhile it is true that Elementary will begin its season later again this upcoming season because of this, they will benefit by having far fewer interruptions throughout the television season, which was nice this past, and still ongoing, year. That takes some pressure off of them and all the Thursday night shows. I liked that Elementary came out with about 8 episodes straight and entered the back half of the season with 16 still in reserve. Much more fluid flow of episodes that other shows cannot do. Does make the wait that much longer though...:-(
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