![]() ![]() We ranked teams by their share of TV markets, but the picture doesn’t change much if we weight the markets by number of homes with televisions, to get an estimate of the potential number of viewers of each team. Just about the only time the Cowboys aren’t dominating the airwaves is during bye weeks like this one. saw at least an average of nine of the Cowboys’ 16 games each season, by far the most in the league. Over the past six seasons, they were either the first or second most commonly broadcast team in 95 of just over 200 markets around the U.S., 4 a dominance that appears on the West Coast in markets including Seattle and Los Angeles, and on the East Coast in Jacksonville, Florida, and Greenville, North Carolina.īetween 20, every Nielsen market in the U.S. Still, the main takeaway from this map is that them Cowboys are on TV a lot all over the place they are by far the most broadcast team around the country. You can’t say the same about the Patriots being aired so often in the Carolinas, the random pocket of Eagles’ ubiquity on televisions in southern Oklahoma and northeastern Texas, or the frequency with which Giants games are televised in greater Las Vegas. ![]() The same goes for the vast area colored by Oakland black and Houston red: Someone has to play second fiddle to the 49ers and the Cowboys, and another team from the same state is the obvious candidate. It’s strange to see Minnesota mostly covered by Packer Green and the whole of Louisiana colored Cowboy blue, but there’s some obvious regional logic there. With the exceptions of Carolina, Cleveland and San Diego, every team is the second most televised team somewhere. networks, which is why he started collecting the data. and even outside of it: Kirby, who lives an hour from Maine, has access to U.S. It’s a reflection of both regional broadcasting choices for Sunday day games and national programming selections for the night games on Thursdays, Sundays and Mondays 2. ![]() His data reveals which teams we see most and least often each season and across multiple seasons. Displaced Seahawks or Panthers fans in New York City won’t get to see their favorite team on local television this week instead, they’ll be shown the Chargers-Packers game.īut while Kirby’s project does a good job of visualizing the spatial coverage of NFL broadcasts each week, that’s not all it does the archive of data he’s compiled over the years also helps us understand larger geographic patterns in NFL television. It’s a simple map that shows which regions see which late game on CBS on Sunday afternoon.Īs you can see, the country is split between those seeing San Diego at Green Bay (red), those seeing Baltimore at San Francisco (blue), and Washington state residents seeing Seattle host Carolina. 1 Here is one of his maps for this coming week. He then maps them out for all the world to see on. Today, Kirby is still meticulously scanning the Web every week of the season to find football broadcast schedules for different markets around the United States. “I was pissed and figured there had to be a better way to figure this out.” Kirby had an idea to expose the hidden geographic patterns that control our Sunday afternoons: He created a project dedicated to mapping out the NFL’s weekly broadcast schedule. Kirby, a Patriots fan and self-described “map nerd.” “The station’s site said one thing, the guide in my newspaper said another, and what ended up showing was another game completely, and it wasn’t the Pats game,” Kirby, 32, a web designer in Fredericton, New Brunswick, told me by email. In 2005, one of these chronically disappointed viewers was J.P. People would turn on their TVs expecting to see one game only to be disappointed by another. Folks in Wisconsin get to watch their Packers every week folks in northern Florida “get” to see the Jags.įor years, the strange geographic structures that underpinned league broadcasts were almost entirely obscured from the average consumer. ![]() So unless you have a premium NFL television package, your location greatly affects your viewing experiences. Because of the nature of the league’s broadcast deal, and the realities of “regional coverage,” every Sunday the league’s national broadcast partners Fox and CBS assign different games to different markets, based on both regional and national interest. I live in Austin, so there’s a good chance I’ll get to see the Cowboys and Texans, but beyond that, there’s no way for me to know what to expect. However, just like millions of other viewers, most Sundays I am not sure which games will be on my television. Like millions of other Americans, I watch the NFL on a regular basis. ![]()
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