CBS, Fox, NBC extend their NFL deals through 2022

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Here are some highlights of the deal, some announced, some not:
*CBS, Fox and NBC keep their respective packages, AFC, NFC and Sunday Night Football.
*Each will get a total of three Super Bowls each, NBC resumes where the rotation under which the current contract ends with Fox and Super Bowl XLVIII.
*CBS will air the milestone Super Bowl L (50) in 2016.
*NBC will begin airing the Thanksgiving Night game starting in 2012.
*NBC gives up its Wild Card Playoff doubleheader in exchange for one Divisional Playoff game.
*ESPN will most likely receive the Wild Card Playoff game given up by NBC.
*Flex scheduling expands to allow CBS and Fox to trade games for the 4:15 p.m. national window.
*Thursday Night Football will expand to additional games, as many as 10-12 games next season.

Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch says the NFL, the TV networks and the fans are all winners in the latest 9 year rights deal.

John Eggerton of B&C says the American Cable Association is sounding the alarm bell on the new NFL TV deals.

Eric Deggans of the St. Petersburg Times writing in the Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center looks at some of the negatives of the new NFL TV deals.

Matt Yoder from Awful Announcing breaks down the new NFL TV deals.

Richard Sandomir of the New York Times mulls over the numbers in the new NFL TV deals.

Jim Carlisle of the Ventura County Star looks into the new NFL TV deals.