Most preseason games, except a few contests such as the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, are not televised by the national networks, and the league leaves television rights for those contests up to the individual teams. As part of the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, the U.S government granted the NFL permission to sell the rights to all regular season and postseason games to the national networks, as an exemption to antitrust laws. ESPN also airs one postseason game that is also simulcast on their sister national broadcast network ABC all other postseason games air televised on either CBS, Fox, or NBC. For those regular season games aired exclusively on NFL Network or ESPN, they are also simulcast on a local broadcast station in each of the home markets of the two participating teams (determined by a bidding process). Since 2018, selected regular season games airing on NFL Network are also simulcast on Fox.
The league does not, in general, have an anti-siphoning rule for regular season games, and such games can be (and are) carried on both the cable outlet and the local affiliate. on one of five national networks: the broadcast networks of CBS, Fox, ABC or NBC or the cable channels ESPN or NFL Network. Main article: National Football League on televisionĪll regular-season and postseason games are shown in the U.S.
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