NFL Club Owners Approve More Wild Card Games – And a Kids Telecast

variety.com:

The NFL’s various teams approved the expansion of the game’s post-season, a move that had previously been set in motion by the league’s recent bargaining agreement with its players.

Under the new terms, the NFL would add two Wild Card teams, one from the AFC and one from the NFC, to the playoffs, raising the number of teams involved to 14 from 12.

CBS would get to televise one additional Wild Card game, slated for late afternoon on January 10, and NBC would air one on the same day in the evening.

CBS will produce a separate telecast aimed at young viewers for the Nickelodeon channel owned by its parent ViacomCBS, while NBC will also make its Wild Card game available via the streaming-video service Peacock and the Spanish-language network