Fox and CBS are furious at the National Football League's decision to make them declare after the fourth week of games which late-season contests they want to protect from being moved to NBC. After
each pick of five games they want to protect over the final eight weeks, NBC gets to pick the games it wants to show on Sunday nights as part of a new "flex-scheduling" plan. The nets say the league
is making them choose what their top games will be later in the season--after teams play just a few times. "We're disappointed that the league's guidelines for the flexible schedule seem unfair to the
Sunday afternoon broadcasters," says Fox Sports President Ed Goren. "We knew that the flexible schedule was part of the deal, but we were led to believe that the process wouldn't put any network at a
disadvantage. This plan almost guarantees that one or both networks will protect the wrong game on any given Sunday."
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