This Saturday’s Patriots-Giants game was going to have the least national distribution possible: airing only on the meek NFL Network. But under pressure for political types – the league has offered up the potentially historic game to both CBS and NBC. Now the Pats may finish the season undefeated with people watching on three TV networks. CBS and NBC will air the NFL Network feed. Sen. John Kerry and others pressured the NFL to figure something out – since the league-owned NFL Network is still carried in a tiny tiny number of homes both nationally and in the Patriots and Giants’ markets.
By the way, TV Week says this is the first national NFL simulcast since 1967′s first Super Bowl, when CBS and NBC both carried the game.
