The Wall Street Journal (subscriber access needed) is reporting that the NFL and Espn are in talks about ESPN taking over the NFL Network. The Journal said one scenario would be combining the NFL Network and ESPN Classic since ESPN Classic has a much wider distribution and would bump its ratings.
More then likely he NFL is giving up on running the Network itself due to the fact Comcast in blocking them from their basic packages. NFL owners aren’t seeing the returns they projected. ESPN should do a much better job running the network and it will be interesting to see if they pickup all of NFL Network’s content.
