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NFL Network, After Ratings Flop, in Talks With ESPN

Posted Jun 20, 08 5:58 PM CDT in Business,  Sports 

(Newser) – Having lost a game of chicken with the nation’s cable operators, the National Football League is in talks with ESPN to carry prime-time games that were unavailable to most American households last season, the Wall Street Journal reports. The NFL’s channel, charging lucrative fees, is available in only 40 million homes; major cable companies refused to carry it on the league’s terms.

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