NBC To Broadcast USFL Games Along With Fox Under New Multi-Year Rights Deal

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NBC Sports will televise USFL games along with Fox Sports when the pro football league returns in a new incarnation next spring.Starting in April, NBCUniversal will carry 21 USFL games in 2022, with eight on NBC, nine on USA Network and four on Peacock.

Fox will have 22 games, 12 on its flagship broadcast network and 10 on cable’s FS1.The USFL’s 20 national over-the-air broadcast windows will exceed the number for any regularly scheduled sport in the first half of 2022, according to the league.The newly constituted USFL is controlled by Fox Sports and not affiliated with the original organization, which had a short but tumultuous run in the 1980s. (Former president Donald Trump was among the team owners at that time, running the New Jersey