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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Yes.
My love of country is positively related to my hate of those Americans who love the nfl more.
I don't watch the NFL, period. I used to love NFL but I haven't watched and won't watch as long as they allow the players to disrespect the flag, veterans, and first responders, not to mention ordinary Americans who love America.
NFL, NFL, rings a bell.
It has developed as America grew, into a great opportunity for Americans of all races to have the opportunity of a scholastic or financial bootstrap start for the players.
Americans of all races should be grateful to America for that opportunity, not insulting to America.
Aww how sad. (Not)
Look up the word “psychotic.”
No.
You hate people who “support the nfl” more than you hate actual criminals.
Psycho.
LOL. That’s what these anti-American bums get for funding black social justice racist BS. Screw these fools.
My NFL consumption has literally been reduced to reading the NY Post sports section while I empty my bowels in the morning. Something felt really appropriate about the practice so it’s my regular thing now.
It is liberating not caring about this idiotic league at all.
I know people rag on soccer, but if you watched those two Champions League semifinal games over the last two days, that was some incredible drama.
didn’t know the NFL was still in business.
ditto
used to live in Logan WV in the 50s. Cleveland was our TV team. Went to boarding school by bus on Sunday afternoon. Never saw the second half of a game. But Groza, Graham and Brown were my heroes.
Always watched a many games as I could even after they went to Thursdays and sunday nights.
Now going into my 4th year of boycotting and am way past over it.
my son has switched from NFL to european soccer.
Good for him!
What’s the National Felon League?
Oh, that’s right they are the anti-American, hate white people, hate Christians, hate law enforcement, hate men, love lawlessness, perversion and SJW, PC Pink “diversity” organization that real Americans stopped watching years ago?
They “got woke, and went broke”.
Football. That european sport with the round ball?
Psycho
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