<P> At its launch, the package proved highly controversial mainly due to the relative unavailability of NFL Network at the time; the league used the games as leverage to encourage television providers to carry NFL Network on their basic service tiers, rather than in premium, sports - oriented packages that required subscribers to pay a higher fee; although, as with all other national cable telecasts of NFL games, the league's own regulations require the games to be syndicated to over-the - air television stations in the local markets of the teams . These issues were magnified in 2007, when a game that saw the New England Patriots close out a perfect regular season was simulcast nationally on both CBS and NBC, in addition to NFL Network and the local stations that the game was sold to, following concerns from politicians and other critics . </P> <P> In 2014, the NFL shifted the package to a new model to increase its prominence . The entire TNF package would be produced by a separate rightsholder, who would hold rights to simulcast a portion of the package on their respective network . CBS was the first rightsholder under this model, airing nine games on broadcast television, and producing the remainder of the package to air exclusively on NFL Network to satisfy its carriage agreements . The package was also extended to Week 16 of the season, and included a new Saturday doubleheader split between CBS and NFL Network . On January 18, 2015, CBS and NFL Network extended the same arrangement for a second season . In the 2016 and 2017, the NFL continued with a similar arrangement, but adding NBC as a second rightsholder alongside CBS, with each network airing five games on broadcast television each . </P> <P> In 2018, the NFL reached a long - term deal with Fox to hold the rights through 2022 . </P> <P> The games are broadcast on radio via Westwood One, which syndicates the broadcasts to its partner radio stations around the United States . In 2016, the NFL also began to sub-license digital streaming rights to the broadcast TV portion of the package to third - parties, beginning with Twitter in 2016, and Amazon Prime Video in 2017, which Amazon and the NFL renewed their contract through 2019, with Twitch set to air some games in 2018 . </P>

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