POSTED: Wednesday August 19th 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NFL & NBC ANNOUNCE TWO-YEAR CONTRACT EXTENSION

NBC will remain the home of "Sunday Night Football" for the 2012 and 2013 seasons.

       NEW YORK – August 19, 2009 – The National Football League
and NBC Sports today announced a two-year extension of their broadcast
partnership under which NBC will remain the home of “Sunday Night
Football” for the 2012 and 2013 seasons. NFL clubs approved the
extension at a league meeting today in Chicago.



The original six-year deal between NBC Sports and the NFL, which
includes innovative flexible scheduling, started with the 2006 season
and runs through the 2011 season. As with the original agreement, NBC
will broadcast 16 regular season “Sunday Night Football” games, each
season’s “NFL Opening Kickoff” Thursday night primetime game, both Wild
Card Saturday games and preseason games in primetime. The NFL will
continue to provide flexible game scheduling over the final seven weeks
of the regular season to ensure quality matchups and games with playoff
implications.



“Sunday Night Football” is preceded each week at 7 p.m. ET by “Football
Night in America,” which provides comprehensive highlights and analysis
of the day’s events in the NFL, along with a preview of that night’s
“Sunday Night Football” contest.



NBC & THE NFL: NBC’s long history with the NFL dates back 70 years
to 1939 when NBC became the first network to televise an NFL game –
Philadelphia Eagles vs. Brooklyn Dodgers from Ebbets Field to the
approximately 1,000 sets then in New York. NBC first broadcast the NFL
Championship Game in 1955.  In 1964, NBC signed a five-year contract to
televise the AFL.  NBC was awarded the AFC package in 1970, an
association that would continue through the 1997-98 season. NBC
televised the first Super Bowl in 1967, the historic New York Jets’
upset of the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III in 1969, and this past
February broadcast Super Bowl XLIII, the most-watched program in
television history.




       Members of the media can get more information about NBC
Universal and its programming on the NBC Universal Media Village Web
site at www.nbcumv.com.



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Name: Brian Walker
Organization: NBC
Email:
Phone: +1.212-664-5533
URL: http://www.nbcuni.com

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