CBS has bought its way back into pro football, bouncing NBC from its longtime coverage of American Football Conference Sunday afternoon games with a $4 billion, eight-year deal, sources said. The National Football League announced last night that the Fox Network has retained the rights to the premier National Football Conference Sunday afternoon package, also with an eight-year contract worth a minimum of $4.4 billion, the richest deal in the history of sports.
An NFL spokesman declined to comment on the CBS package, but a CBS source indicated late last night that the eight-year contract will be announced today. Hurt badly by its loss of the NFL four years ago, CBS will pay the NFL $500 million a year for the AFC package of Sunday games, a 130 percent increase per year over the $217 million a year NBC paid over the past four years. …
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