NFL coverage map 2016: TV schedule Week 5
By John Buhler
Week 5 of the 2016 NFL season has 14 games on the slate. Three will be televised nationally. Here are the broadcast maps for all the games on CBS and FOX.
The 2016 NFL season is already in Week 5. There will be 14 games on the schedule this weekend. Three games will be televised nationally, 11 will only be available in certain coverage areas, and four teams will be on their bye weeks.
Teams that will be on a bye in Week 5 are the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Kansas City Chiefs, the New Orleans Saints, and the Seattle Seahawks.
Thursday Night Football will be between the Arizona Cardinals and the San Francisco 49ers on CBS and the NFL Network. Sunday Night Football will feature the New York Giants at the Green Bay Packers. NBC will have that telecast. Monday Night football will be between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Carolina Panthers. ESPN will have that telecast.
For the other 11 games on the slate, here are the broadcast maps of the CBS and FOX games, courtesy of the great folks at 506Sports.com
CBS has seven games on Sunday, four early and three late. The four early games are as follows: New York Jets at Pittsburgh Steelers, New England Patriots at Cleveland Browns, Houston Texans at Minnesota Vikings, and Tennessee Titans at Miami Dolphins.
Nashville, Florida, and Greater Portland will be getting Titans at Dolphins. Portland can’t get enough of Marcus Mariota’s mediocre quarterbacking for Mike Mularkey’s Titans.
The Midwest, Southwest, and Atlanta will be getting Texans at Vikings. It’s weird to see Atlanta get this game, but Falcons fans really only care about the 4:00 PM ET game in Denver anyway.
Cleveland, St. Louis, Buffalo, New England, Utah, and Northern Nevada get Tom Brady’s return to the Patriots on Sunday against the Browns.
Baltimore, Detroit, and Indianapolis are blacked out on CBS at 1:00 PM ET because of having a local home game on FOX. Everybody else is getting Jets at Steelers.
CBS has three late games on the Week 5 slate. They are as follows: Cincinnati Bengals at Dallas Cowboys, San Diego Chargers at Oakland Raiders, and Buffalo Bills at Los Angeles Rams.
Denver is blacked out in the 4:00 PM ET block because of their local game on FOX with the Falcons. Just Buffalo and Los Angeles are getting Bills at Rams.
The West Coast, Kansas City, and Honolulu are getting Chargers at Oakland. Greater Kansas City gets this game because the Chiefs are AFC West rivals with San Diego and Oakland. Everybody else is getting Bengals at Cowboys.
FOX has only four games on the Week 5 schedule, three early and one late. The three early games are Chicago Bears at Indianapolis Colts, Philadelphia Eagles at Detroit Lions, and Washington Redskins at Baltimore Ravens. The late game is Atlanta Falcons at Denver Broncos.
Chicago at Indianapolis is too regional of a matchup to get more national coverage than in the Midwest. The same can be said about Redskins at Ravens, except Cincinnati gets this game because of the Bengals’ AFC North rivalry with Baltimore.
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Dallas, Oklahoma, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, St. Louis, Green Bay, Detroit, Buffalo, and Philadelphia will be getting Eagles at Lions. Everybody else is getting Falcons at Broncos in the 4:00 PM ET hour.