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Andrew Marchand of the New York Post, reporting on the deliberations occurring regarding the re-schedule of this weeks Steelers v Titans game:
No way this would have been the preference even a few years ago.
So here in the midst of election season, the CBS news division now trumps the CBS sports division, and tells them they would rather air the evening news than to pre-empt this for a chance to carry a prime time NFL game.If the game moves to Monday, it’s expected to start at 5:00 p.m. ET, setting up an unprecedented non-Week One doubleheader, with Steelers-Titans on CBS preceding Falcons-Packers on ESPN. If the game moves to Tuesday, it will be played at 6:00 p.m. or 7:00 p.m. ET.
Marchand notes that CBS prefers that the game start at 7:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday, in order to avoid a conflict with national programming like the CBS evening news, and the late-afternoon local news broadcasts for its various affiliates.
No way this would have been the preference even a few years ago.