What Channel Do The Nfl Games Come On Tonight?

Wondering what channel the NFL games come on tonight? Check out this quick guide to help you plan your football-watching schedule.

NFL Games Tonight

The NFL games come on tonight at 8:00 PM on NBC.

Thursday Night Football

The NFL schedule for tonight’s games has been released, with a full slate of action on tap. Thursday Night Football will feature the Baltimore Ravens taking on the Miami Dolphins in an AFC showdown. The game is set to kick off at 8:20 PM EST on NFL Network.

Sunday Night Football

The National Football League (NFL) is America’s most popular sports league, with fans tuning in each week to catch their favorite teams in action. Each season, the NFL schedule typically features a primetime “Sunday Night Football” game on NBC, which is usually the week’s most-watched game.

Tonight’s NFL games will be televised on several different channels, including CBS, FOX, and NBC. The Sunday night game will be shown on NBC at 8:20pm ET.

Monday Night Football

Monday Night Football is a live television broadcast of weekly National Football League (NFL) games on ESPN in the United States. From 1970 to 2005, it aired on sister network ABC. Monday Night Footballfirst aired on September 21, 1970. The show has broadcast games from every NFL season since its inception, and has seen several changes to its on-air talent and production over the years. Currently, MNF is one of only two primetime NFL television programs, along with Thursday Night Football (which also airs on ESPN), that airs during the NFL regular season; both shows air during the NFL’s latter portion of its season (from mid-September to late December).

In 2006, Monday Night Football moved to ESPN as part of a contract that gave the cable sports network exclusive rights to NFL primetime games; ESPN had previously aired NFL games during the 1980s, but this was its first venture into regular season broadcasts since acquiring partial rights to NFL games in 1987. The current Monday Night Football announcing team consists of play-by-play announcer Sean McDonough and color analyst Jon Gruden.

How to Watch

If you want to catch the game tonight, here’s what channel they’re on. Just click on the provided link to find out everything you need to know about finding the right channel for you- whether you have cable or not. You can also find a link to the NFL website, where you can find out more about the game itself.

Cable

Cable TV is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radiofrequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fiber-optic cables. This contrasts with broadcast television (also known as terrestrial television), in which the television signal is transmitted over the air by radio waves and received by a television antenna attached to the television; or satellite television, in which the television signal is transmitted by a communications satellite orbiting the Earth and received by a satellite dish on the roof. FM radio programming, high-speed Internet, telephone services, and similar non-television services may also be provided through these cables. Analog cable TV was common in the 20th century, but since the 2000s, cable systems have been upgraded to digital cable operation.

A “cable channel” (sometimes known as a “cable network”) is a television network available via cable television. When available through satellite television, including direct broadcast satellite providers such as DirecTV, Dish Network and Sky, as well as via IPTV providers such as Verizon FIOS and AT&T U-verse is referred to as a “satellite channel”. Alternative terms include “non-broadcast channel” or “programming service”, the latter being mainly used in legal contexts. Examples of cable/satellite channels/cable networks available in many countries are HBO, Cinemax, MTV, Cartoon Network, AXN, E!, Fox Life, Discovery Channel, Canal+, Eurosport among many others.

The word channel comes from Old English sceomel (“bundle,” “twig”), from Proto-Germanic *skaumulaz (“log”), cognate with Old Norse skamli (“laths”), Dutch schommel (“cradle”), Middle Low German schommeln (“to swing”) and Swedish skymla (“to swing”).

Satellite

Satellite television provides a wide array of channels and services, including many sporting events. If you want to watch the NFL on Satellite TV, there are a few options available to you.

One option is NFL Sunday Ticket from DIRECTV. This package provides live out-of-market and condensed game coverage every Sunday afternoon during the NFL regular season. It also includes NFL RedZone, a channel that switches live to every game with a team poised to score. NFL Sunday Ticket is available on select DIRECTV packages.

Another option for watching the NFL on Satellite TV is through the ESPN GamePlan package. This package provides live game coverage of up to 12 out-of-market games each week during the college football regular season. The games are typically shown on either ABC or ESPN, but some games may be blacked out in certain areas. ESPN Gameplan is available on most satellite television packages.

Online

If you want to watch the NFL games online, you have several options. You can find a number of websites that offer live streaming of the games, or you can sign up for a subscription service such as NFL Game Pass or DirecTV Now. You can also find a number of free options if you know where to look.

Local Listings

Check your local TV listings to find out what channel the NFL games come on tonight in your area. Most likely, the game will be on ESPN, but it could also be on NBC, CBS, or Fox. You can also check the NFL website to see what channel the game is on in your area.

NBC

NBC is an American English language commercial terrestrial television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is sometimes referred to as the Peacock Network, in reference to its signature logo, which features a peacock in flight. Founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. At that time the parent company of RCA was General Electric (GE). In 1930, GE was forced to sell the companies as a result of antitrust charges. In 1986, control of NBC passed back to General Electric through its $6.4 billion purchase of RCA.

The television network has nine owned-and-operated stations and nearly 200 affiliates throughout the United States and its territories, some of which are available in Canada via pay-television providers or in border areas over-the-air; NBC also maintains brand licensing agreements for international channels in South Korea and Germany.

CBS

All NFL games airing on CBS will be shown on your local CBS station (find your local station here). If you’re a Verizon customer, you can also watch games live through the NFL Mobile app on your smartphone, tablet or other device.

FOX

FOX has the national broadcast rights to Thursday Night Football games during the 2018 NFL season. All Thursday Night Football games will be televised on FOX (check your local listings).

NFL Game Pass

NFL Game Pass is a subscription service offered by the National Football League. It allows users to watch live and on-demand preseason, regular season, and playoff games, as well as some NFL Network and NFL RedZone content. The service is currently only available in the United States, Mexico, Japan, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and the United Kingdom.

Radio

In order to find out what channel the NFL games come on tonight, you can look up the game schedule in your local newspaper or online. The game schedule will list the channels that the games will be broadcast on. You can also check your local TV listings to see what channel the games will be on.