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NFL Network offered stake for broadcast rights
0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, June, 2008 | by Bob Fernandez Inquirer Staff Writer
The National Football League, still searching for a broadcast platform for its flagging NFL Network, rejected an offer from Comcast Corp. that would have given the league owners a stake in the cable company and would have shielded them from having to share cable-TV broadcast revenue with the players' union.
The Comcast-NFL feud is now a bitter one, but in early 2006, Brian L. Roberts, the company's chief executive officer and chairman, offered rights fees and a substantial ownership interest in a sports channel, then called Outdoor Life Network, that could be converted into Comcast stock in exchange for broadcast rights to eight live NFL games per season. Roberts says in a recent government filing he structured the offer this way at the direction of the NFL owners, who...
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