CBS NFL High Def Coverage still up in the air
Ever since we found out that all NFL on FOX games will be available in high definition in 2008, we have been trying to get information about what CBS is planning. Well, we have gotten an answer, in the form of a non-answer.
A rep from CBS indicates that the exact number of NFL football games they will carry in high definition each week has not been finalized. However, he did indicate that “it will most likely be in the neighborhood of 6-7 games/week in HD”.
So, I guess we have at least one more year where some weeks there will be NFL games broadcast in standard definition. Sorry Tennessee and Houston fans.
As the final schedules are released, the games will be added to our NFL High Definition Schedule.
WEEK 1 — SUNDAY, SEPT. 7 (5 GAMES)
Cincinnati @ Baltimore — 1:00
N.Y. Jets @ Miami — 1:00
Kansas City @ New England — 1:00
Houston @ Pittsburgh — 1:00
Jacksonville @ Tennessee — 1:00
WEEK 2 — SUNDAY, SEPT. 14 — CBS DOUBLEHEADER (8 GAMES)
Tennessee @ Cincinnati — 1:00
Buffalo @ Jacksonville — 1:00
Oakland @ Kansas City — 1:00
Indianapolis @ Minnesota — 1:00
New England @ N.Y. Jets — 4:15
San Diego @ Denver — 4:15
Miami @ Arizona — 4:15
Baltimore @ Houston — 4:15
WEEK 3 — SUNDAY, SEPT. 21 — CBS DOUBLEHEADER (8 GAMES)
Kansas City @ Atlanta — 1:00
Oakland @ Buffalo — 1:00
Cincinnati @ N.Y. Giants — 1:00
Miami @ New England — 1:00
Houston @ Tennessee — 1:00
Pittsburgh @ Philadelphia — 4:15
Cleveland @ Baltimore — 4:15
Jacksonville @ Indianapolis — 4:15
WEEK 4 — SUNDAY, SEPT. 28 (5 GAMES)
Cleveland @ Cincinnati — 1:00
Houston @ Jacksonville — 1:00
Denver @ Kansas City — 1:00
San Diego @ Oakland — 4:05
Buffalo @ St. Louis — 4:05
WEEK 5 — SUNDAY, OCT. 5 — CBS DOUBLEHEADER (7 GAMES)
Tennessee @ Baltimore — 1:00
Kansas City @ Carolina — 1:00
Indianapolis @ Houston — 1:00
San Diego @ Miami — 1:00
Cincinnati @ Dallas — 4:15
New England @ San Francisco — 4:15
Buffalo @ Arizona — 4:15
WEEK 6 — SUNDAY, OCT. 12 (5 GAMES)
Miami @ Houston — 1:00
Baltimore @ Indianapolis — 1:00
Cincinnati @ N.Y. Jets — 1:00
Oakland @ New Orleans — 1:00
Jacksonville @ Denver — 4:05
WEEK 7 — SUNDAY, OCT. 19 — CBS DOUBLEHEADER (7 GAMES)
San Diego @ Buffalo — 1:00
Pittsburgh @ Cincinnati — 1:00
Tennessee @ Kansas City — 1:00
Baltimore @ Miami — 1:00
Indianapolis @ Green Bay — 4:15
Cleveland @ Washington — 4:15
N.Y. Jets @ Oakland — 4:15
WEEK 8 — SUNDAY, OCT. 26 (5 GAMES)
San Diego @ New Orleans (London) — 1:00
Oakland @ Baltimore — 1:00
Buffalo @ Miami — 1:00
Kansas City @ N.Y. Jets — 1:00
Cleveland @ Jacksonville — 4:05
WEEK 9 — SUNDAY, NOV. 2 (5 GAMES)
N.Y. Jets @ Buffalo — 1:00
Jacksonville @ Cincinnati — 1:00
Baltimore @ Cleveland — 1:00
Houston @ Minnesota — 1:00
Miami @ Denver — 4:05
WEEK 10 — SUNDAY, NOV. 9 — CBS DOUBLEHEADER (6 GAMES)
Tennessee @ Chicago — 1:00
Jacksonville @ Detroit — 1:00
Cincinnati @ Houston — 1:00
Buffalo @ New England — 1:00
Indianapolis @ Pittsburgh — 4:15
Kansas City @ San Diego — 4:15
WEEK 11 — SUNDAY, NOV. 16 — CBS DOUBLEHEADER (5 GAMES)
Denver @ Atlanta — 1:00
Houston @ Indianapolis — 1:00
Tennessee @ Jacksonville — 1:00
Oakland @ Miami — 1:00
Baltimore @ N.Y. Giants — 1:00
San Diego @ Pittsburgh — 4:15
WEEK 12 — SUNDAY, NOV. 23 (5 GAMES)
Houston @ Cleveland — 1:00
Buffalo @ Kansas City — 1:00
New England @ Miami — 1:00
N.Y. Jets @ Tennessee — 1:00
Oakland @ Denver — 4:05
WEEK 13 — THURSDAY, NOV. 27 THANKSGIVING DAY
Tennessee @ Detroit — 12:30
SUNDAY, NOV. 30 — CBS DOUBLEHEADER (6 GAMES)
Indianapolis @ Cleveland — 1:00
Baltimore @ Cincinnati — 1:00
Denver @ N.Y. Jets — 1:00
Miami @ St. Louis — 1:00
Pittsburgh @ New England — 4:15
Kansas City @ Oakland — 4:15
WEEK 14 — SUNDAY, DEC. 7 (7 GAMES)
Jacksonville @ Chicago — 1:00
Houston @ Green Bay — 1:00
Cincinnati @ Indianapolis — 1:00
Cleveland @ Tennessee — 1:00
Kansas City @ Denver — 4:05
N.Y. Jets @ San Francisco — 4:05
Miami @ Buffalo (Toronto) — 4:05
WEEK 15 — SUNDAY, DEC. 14 — CBS DOUBLEHEADER (6 GAMES)
Pittsburgh @ Baltimore — 1:00
Denver @ Carolina — 1:00
Tennessee @ Houston — 1:00
San Diego @ Kansas City — 1:00
Buffalo @ N.Y. Jets — 1:00
New England @ Oakland — 4:15
WEEK 16 — SUNDAY, DEC. 21 (6 GAMES)
Cincinnati @ Cleveland — 1:00
Miami @ Kansas City — 1:00
Pittsburgh @ Tennessee — 1:00
N.Y. Jets @ Seattle — 4:05
Houston @ Oakland — 4:05
Buffalo @ Denver — 4:05
WEEK 17 — SUNDAY, DEC. 28 — CBS DOUBLEHEADER (8 GAMES)
Cleveland @ Pittsburgh — 1:00
Tennessee @ Indianapolis — 1:00
New England @ Buffalo — 1:00
Jacksonville @ Baltimore — 1:00
Kansas City @ Cincinnati — 1:00
Miami @ N.Y. Jets — 1:00
Oakland @ Tampa Bay — 1:00
Denver @ San Diego — 4:15
AFC WILD CARD PLAYOFF GAME — SUNDAY, JAN. 4
AFC DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS — SATURDAY, JAN. 10 & SUNDAY, JAN. 11
AFC CHAMPIONSHIP – SUNDAY, JAN. 18
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May 8th, 2008 at 9:46 am
That’s interesting. People on AVS forum have led us to believe that the NFL TV contracts required all games to be in HD in 2008.
May 8th, 2008 at 10:30 am
2009 is the requirement for all games to be in HD, but both networks were assumed to have the infrastructure in place to do all games this season
May 8th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
CBS needs to get with the program. Its the NFL, the freakin biggest league in America. Teams like Houston, TN, and Miami will be penalized. That’s nuts. The ratings that the NFL gets for CBS, you would think CBS owes them. CBS needs to wake up and smell the coffee. Ridiculous. FOX outclasses CBS for yet another year.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
I don’t know if I’d say Fox outclassed anyone. They’re still the network with the dancing robot.
May 10th, 2008 at 8:35 am
its interesting that for the biggest sport in america they can’t get it in HD yet the big ten channel manages to get field hockey and college baseball in HD, you’d think CBS could scrounge up some extra trucks & equipment to get w/ the program.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:22 am
Ed,
It’s not a truck issue, that’s the easy part. The issue with CBS is that they need to have enough HD control rooms in NY to be able to get all those games at the same time and insert all of the commercials. Converting those control rooms to HD isn’t cheap and some will only get used for the NFL. BTN isn’t doing as many live games at the same time.
FOX uses a different system (called a splicer) since they got into HD later then CBS but reduces the HD quality if they have many games at once.
CBS is going for quality over quantity.
May 30th, 2008 at 8:04 am
Engadget is reporting that all CBS games will be available in high definition.
http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/22/all-nfl-games-on-cbs-will-be-in-hd-this-season-finally
May 30th, 2008 at 10:06 am
We are really hoping that our information is wrong, but we still have not seen anything official confirming that they will be. We followed up with our contact and he indicated that right now the best information is that they are planning 6-7 a week, but he will let us know if he hears anything different. I guess we will find out soon enough….