Thread:Cbcarter34/@comment-30384892-20160206164706/@comment-26816790-20160219024529

Maybe this should help you out.

While selected preseason games are televised nationally by the NFL's main broadcast partners, the majority of them are in-house productions of the individual teams, often in association with a local television broadcaster or regional sports network (such as Root Sports Northwest for the Seattle Seahawks, Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic for the Washington Redskins, and Fox Sports Detroit for theDetroit Lions). Especially if a team's flagship station is affiliated with or owned by CBS or NBC, rightsholders may also subcontract with their network's respective sports department, such as CBS Sports(in the case of the Atlanta Falcons, whose flagship is CBS-owned The CW affiliate WUPA)[3]  or NBC Sports (in the case of the New York Giants to provide resources such as camera crews and graphics, or produce the entire broadcast, giving those networks their own ability to evaluate their production teams and the chemistry of network announcing teams before the season starts.

Preseason broadcasts are typically syndicated to a network of stations within the team's market region, which also typically includes a package of team-produced programming throughout the season (such as analysis and coach's shows), local rights to games broadcast on cable, and the right to brand themselves as the "official" station of the team in the market.

Exhibition games are almost exclusively played at night due to hot summer weather, and are frequently scheduled based on local convenience (e.g. games on the west coast tend to start at 7:00 p.m.PT/10:00 p.m. ET). When applicable, the NFL's blackout restrictions apply, although stations are allowed to play the game on a tape delay if the game does not sell out (unlike the regular season policy, when rights revert to NFL Films). However the blackout restrictions do not apply in 2015 as a result of a passed vote during the league's owner's meeting the previous March in which the league, as an experiment factored by the fact that no regular season games in the 2014 season were blacked out and an FCC vote in September 2014 to no longer enforce blackouts, will eliminate blackout rules for at least one season. Many more exhibition games fail to sell out than do regular-season games.

The Hall of Fame Game is carried by NBC as an edition of Sunday Night Football, and on radio by Westwood One. Beginning in 2015, Compass Media Networks carries select preseason contests involving the Oakland Raiders and Dallas Cowboys nationwide.[4]  The games are also carried by the teams' local radio networks, but the affiliate count is often reduced due to conflicts with baseball and other local sports.