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When NBC acquired the rights for Sunday night games, NBC negotiated for exclusive rights for extended highlights during its Football Night in America pregame show.

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This sounds really lame or an excuse. How can you not be allowed to show highlights? Every sports show in the US does. Something sounds fishy.

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The key word is "extended". If you remember ESPN's show, they would spend 5 minutes for each game. That's extended. The highlights where they spend 30 seconds on each game, that's not extended.

I'm not sure that article is even accurate, considering that NFL Network has an extended highlights show also.