Posted on 05/08/2019 2:28:03 PM PDT by Red Badger
The NFL Network is being forced to cut $20 million out of its projected budget and, in the process, already has eliminated at least five shows, including one that featured Deion Sanders, The Post has learned.
The less-than-hoped-for budget has made negotiations with on-air personnel tense, and there is a feeling some will either not be retained or be forced to take pay cuts, according to sources.
The moves have been made as part of the NFL’s overall budget, which includes what is expected to be an amped-up celebration of the NFL’s 100th season this year. NFL Network has apparently absorbed part of the project into its budget.
NFL Network is definitively cutting five programs. Sanders’ “21 & Prime,” “Power Rankings,” “Pick ‘em,” “Playbook” and “Mic’d Up” are off the air. The future of the weekend edition of “Good Morning Football” is in question.
In response, the NFL Network said it was actually upping its investment, but it was shifting where the spending is taking place with the NFL 100 celebration.
“As part of an increased investment in programming and content for 2019, NFL Network will unveil several shows geared towards a celebration of the NFL’s 100th season,” an NFL network spokesman, Alex Riethmiller, said in a statement to The Post. “These shows will replace a handful of existing shows from our 2018 schedule.”
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get woke, go broke ...
This all goes back to Kapernich. I know I don’t watch NFL except T Brady in the conference and Super Bowl Championship.
Well gee fellas, let’s all sit and try to figure out why for the first time in FORTY YEARS I missed an entire season last year.
A. I woke up one day and didn’t like football anymore
B. I was in a coma the whole season
C. YOU RUBBED S..T IN MY FACE FROM COMMERCIALS TELLING ME HOW WRONG AND BAD I AM AS A WHITE MAN TO JERKOFFS KNEELING DURING OUR COUNTRY’S ANTHEM TO THE LEAGUE SUPPORTING BLM
D. See C.
Ha Ha
Blowback ???
Eff the nfl forever!
The NFL is still around?? I thought they were moving the League to CUBA or Venezuela where their kind of people live
Keep on kneeling, boys.
I’m sure at some point normal everyday Americans will be able to pick up their own football team cheap at this rate.
Gravy Train Over!!
No more Prime Time for Prime Time.
You misspelled both "inner-city ghettos" and "Mexico." Just thought you should know. :)
“This all goes back to Kapernich.”
It sure does and all the thugs in the national felon league.
Is Karma a itch ?
Proudly about to start my 4th season of ignoring the NFL. 8>)
Show us some more kneeling.
We can’t get enough of that.
I am sure the decline will be blamed exclusively on racist white males, but millennials are generally nowhere near as interested in pro sports in comparison to the generations before them. Also, the cost to attend a pro sporting event is getting excessive and not sustainable.
The Knee-F-L
Has gone to hell.
The NFL will learn the Law of Supply and Demand......................
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