NFL coverage map 2016: TV schedule Week 6
By John Buhler
Week 6 of the 2016 NFL season has 15 games on the slate, three will be nationally televised. Here are the broadcast maps for the 12 games on CBS and FOX.
There will be 15 NFL games played in Week 6. Only the Minnesota Vikings and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be on their bye week. The three nationally televised games are as follows:
Thursday Night Football will be in Southern California when the San Diego Chargers host their AFC West rival in the Denver Broncos. CBS and the NFL Network will have that 8:25 PM ET telecast.
Sunday Night Football will be in Gulf Coast Texas, as the Houston Texans will host their AFC South rival in the Indianapolis Colts. NBC will have that game airing at 8:30 PM ET.
Monday Night Football will be in Glendale, as the Arizona Cardinals will host the New York Jets to conclude the Week 6 schedule of games. ESPN will have that broadcast at 8:30 PM ET.
Here are the broadcast maps of the 12 games being shown on CBS and FOX in Week 6, courtesy of 506Sports.com:
CBS has six games in NFL Week 6. Five are early and one is a late afternoon start. Here are the five early games: Cincinnati Bengals at New England Patriots, Baltimore Ravens at New York Giants, Pittsburgh Steelers at Miami Dolphins, Jacksonville Jaguars at Chicago Bears, and Cleveland Browns at Tennessee Titans. The lone afternoon game on CBS is Kansas City Chiefs at Oakland Raiders.
Orlando, Jacksonville, Savannah, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Green Bay will be seeing Jaguars at Bears. Dallas, Oklahoma, Washington, Baltimore, New York City, and Western New York are getting Ravens at Giants.
Tampa, Miami, Pensacola, Pennsylvania, Appalachia, and the Carolinas will be viewing Steelers at Dolphins. Cleveland and Tennessee will be getting Cleveland at Tennessee.
California, South Oregon, the Rocky Mountains, the Great Plains, New Orleans, Charlotte, Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Detroit get the 4:00 PM ET game between the Chiefs and Raiders. Everybody else gets Bengals at Patriots.
FOX has six games in Week 6, four of which are coming at the 1:00 PM ET hour. Those four games are as follows: Philadelphia Eagles at Washington Redskins, Carolina Panthers at New Orleans Saints, Los Angeles Rams at Detroit Lions, and San Francisco 49ers at Buffalo.
The NFC South region obviously gets Panthers at Saints. Northern California and Western New York will see 49ers at Bills. Southern California, Arizona, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, Hawaii, and the Midwest will get Rams at Lions.
Nashville, Chicago, New York City, Boston, and Miami are blacked out on FOX at the 1:00 PM ET because of a local home game going on at CBS. Everybody else will get to watch the Eagles at the Redskins.
FOX has two 4:00 PM ET games in Week 6. They are Dallas Cowboys at Green Bay Packers and Atlanta Falcons at Seattle Seahawks. The Bay Area is the only region of the country blacked out for the 4:00 PM ET slot on Sunday because of the Chiefs at Raiders game on CBS.
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Atlanta, the Pacific Northwest, and Anchorage will be getting Falcons at Seahawks. Everybody else will be watching the Cowboys at the Packers.