I need utee94's help. I probably need PiratesRoost, but I haven't seen that guy in years.
Can somebody explain to me the NFL TV contracts? My limited, basic, probably-wrong understanding is that FOX carries NFC games and CBS carries AFC games. Most games are local, so it depends on your local affiliate which team they show. One of them (I think FOX maybe, but I pay so little attention, I don't know) usually carries a 3:30 game, which I thought was national, i.e., everybody sees it.
Last week Dallas played an AFC team, and CBS aired it. Okay, no big confusion, an AFC team was involved, for whatever reasons CBS gets that one. But this past weekend Dallas played a division rival, most definitely another NFC team, and it was still on CBS (at 3:30). I don't understand that.
It's probably not relevant, but it mattered for the following reason. My wife is a big Cowboys fan and wants to watch Dallas every Sunday. We live near Beaumont, so in general CBS carries the Texans and FOX carries the Cowboys. We cut the cord this year, dropping satellite and using Hulu Live TV for the football season. Hulu offers local channels, but evidently they don't have a contract with the local CBS. There is no local news at night, and no Texans games airing at noon on Sundays. Weeknights feature CBS' sitcoms, and Saturdays feature the SEC game of the week, which I know are national for CBS. The rest of the time it's airing CBS News, pretty much around the clock. Just these relentless talking heads droning on about world events. All of which leads me to conclude this is some kind of national CBS station that Hulu offers because for whatever reason they don't have Beaumont's local CBS.
We weren't able to watch either Cowboys game on CBS as a result. Last week's game was a noon game, I believe, so that didn't surprise me. I thought ok, it's a local thing, this version of CBS didn't have it. But this past week's game was a 3:30 CBS game, which I thought meant everybody gets it, but we didn't.
So I'm confused on A) why CBS had a game featuring two NFC teams, and B) which games count as "local" and which ones are games everybody gets? I would've left Hulu by now if they didn't show the SEC Saturday games, and I assumed that meant we should also get national NFL games on Sunday.