PHILADELPHIA (AP) -The Eagles’ Thanksgiving night game at home against the Arizona Cardinals will be carried on several Pennsylvania cable systems, as well as over the airwaves in Philadelphia.
The NFL decided to allow the cable companies to carry the game in response to a letter from Sen. Arlen Specter on Friday to commissioner Roger Goodell thanking him for allowing the recent Pittsburgh-Cincinnati game to appear on cable TV outside the Pittsburgh market. The letter asked for a similar arrangement for Eagles fans.
The Eagles’ game will be the fourth in this year’s eight-game package of the NFL Network to be carried in secondary markets. Normally, games on the pay-per-view service would be blacked out outside the market where the game is played.
NFL vice president Joe Browne said Sunday that cable stations serving the Harrisburg and York areas, as well as the Wilkes-Barre and Scranton areas would carry the feed broadcast by WPVI in Philadelphia.
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