TV Networks Deciding If Raiders Will Be Vegas' Home Team - The Road Trip Rally Party Blog!

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 The NFL designates a geographic area surrounding a team's home as the Primary Market for that team. This means that, for example, the Denver Broncos will have its games broadcast in the Denver TV market with no opposing game being broadcast in competition for viewers.

NFL Teams are assigned to cities (markets) beyond a team's own home city.

 You won't find the Broncos game on the city's CBS station while simultaneously there is a Cowboys game being shown on the Fox station. The Broncos get that all to themselves.

 Then there is what the NFL calls the Secondary Market. This means that, say in another city in another state, the market there is also designated as belonging to the Broncos. Those folks would be unable to watch the Cowboys on Fox because the Broncos are considered to be "their team" as if they all lived in Denver, too.

 With that in mind, the NFL has not decided if Las Vegas will be considered a Secondary Market for the Raiders. As of this linked Five-ThirtyEight.com story that uses the 2015 season to demonstrate the NFL's rule on this, it was the Dallas Cowboys who were shown most to Las Vegas viewers, followed by the New York Giants.

  Will the new folks in Las Vegas be allowed to start building an attachment to the Raiders? Will the NFL, or the Cowboys, insist that the Vegas market should keep showing other NFL teams until the Raiders actually move there? Well, here's what the NFL has to say about it as of now.

  What do you think? Should Oakland Raiders games start showing up in Las Vegas? Should Cowboys games in Vegas be done away with so that there's no TV competition against the Raiders' broadcasts?

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