AFC Sunday Package: CBS
This is going to be kind of boring. See, there’s very little shot of the NFL moving its Sunday package off of traditional broadcast television. CBS has the money to pay for the rights and there is some expectation that CBS — this will hold for the NFC package as well — that prices could increase by 50 percent. That means the current $1 billion per year deal that CBS has will move up to around $1.5 billion for every season — and let’s assume the television deal will be five to seven years long.
There aren’t any real competitors for the AFC package. CBS has had a conference package for every year except one since 1982. That’s not going to suddenly change.