Post by UPN on Jun 12, 2009 14:37:58 GMT -5
Toronto - UPN is going to be very busy this weekend and next week setting up deals and this is the first official deal made by the new revamped UPN.
The brand new United Football League which will serve as the main competitor to the NFL during the fall will be a brand new professional major league. UFL will have 40 teams with 4 of them outside North America. UFL's newly appointed president Adam Steinback said the league will thrive with the new network and help UPN get a solid lead-in for its shows and get extra exposure. The deal is worth $2.6 billion over 6 years with an option for a 2 year extension for UPN to have exclusive rights to air the games. The league is open to syndicating its package on competing networks but the deadline is next week. UFL will also produce a pre and post game package along with 3 original series.
The UFL will debut in August with pre-season games on Saturday and Sunday Nights. Then the league begins action on Labor Day weekend on Saturday September 5, 2009. The league will run its season through mid January on a 21 week schedule and start the playoffs on Saturday January 30, 2010 and the UFL's version of the Super Bowl is called the World Bowl and it be held on Sunday February 20, 2010 at 6pm/et. There will be four different slots that the UFL will be home to.
Here's how the schedule will look for UPN:
start times are subject to change
Saturdays (beginning 9/5)
10am-This Week in Pro Football
11am-Bar & Grill UPN Style pre-game show
12pm-Football Day in the World
12:30pm-UFL Look-In
1pm-UFL on UPN (Early Games)
4pm-UFL on UPN (Late Games)
7pm-UFL overrun (Late Games contd.)
7:30pm-The Overrun (UFL post-game Report)
Sundays (beginning 9/6)
11am-UFL original programming
12pm-UFL Sunday Afternoon Football Look-In
2pm-UFL Sunday Afternoon Football on UPN (3pm start for West Coast teams at home)
5pm-Bar & Grill UPN Style post-game show
Night Games package (beginning 9/7)
The night games package will not be aired on a weekly basis, they will be aired as specials during certain weeks of the season and they will be named. These games will feature the best matchups of the season. They will be aired anywhere from Thursday-Monday nights. The first game will be called A New Beginning and it airs in prime time on UPN.
6:30pm-UFL Look-In
7pm-UPN UFL (THU-MON) Night Football
10pm-UPN lead-in programming
On Saturdays, 14 games will be played and 6 on Sundays inside of the UFL Sunday Afternoon Football on UPN package. Bye weeks will decrease those numbers from time to time.
Details on the teams, full schedule, new league logo and original series info will all be released next week during the UFL's upfronts.
The brand new United Football League which will serve as the main competitor to the NFL during the fall will be a brand new professional major league. UFL will have 40 teams with 4 of them outside North America. UFL's newly appointed president Adam Steinback said the league will thrive with the new network and help UPN get a solid lead-in for its shows and get extra exposure. The deal is worth $2.6 billion over 6 years with an option for a 2 year extension for UPN to have exclusive rights to air the games. The league is open to syndicating its package on competing networks but the deadline is next week. UFL will also produce a pre and post game package along with 3 original series.
The UFL will debut in August with pre-season games on Saturday and Sunday Nights. Then the league begins action on Labor Day weekend on Saturday September 5, 2009. The league will run its season through mid January on a 21 week schedule and start the playoffs on Saturday January 30, 2010 and the UFL's version of the Super Bowl is called the World Bowl and it be held on Sunday February 20, 2010 at 6pm/et. There will be four different slots that the UFL will be home to.
Here's how the schedule will look for UPN:
start times are subject to change
Saturdays (beginning 9/5)
10am-This Week in Pro Football
11am-Bar & Grill UPN Style pre-game show
12pm-Football Day in the World
12:30pm-UFL Look-In
1pm-UFL on UPN (Early Games)
4pm-UFL on UPN (Late Games)
7pm-UFL overrun (Late Games contd.)
7:30pm-The Overrun (UFL post-game Report)
Sundays (beginning 9/6)
11am-UFL original programming
12pm-UFL Sunday Afternoon Football Look-In
2pm-UFL Sunday Afternoon Football on UPN (3pm start for West Coast teams at home)
5pm-Bar & Grill UPN Style post-game show
Night Games package (beginning 9/7)
The night games package will not be aired on a weekly basis, they will be aired as specials during certain weeks of the season and they will be named. These games will feature the best matchups of the season. They will be aired anywhere from Thursday-Monday nights. The first game will be called A New Beginning and it airs in prime time on UPN.
6:30pm-UFL Look-In
7pm-UPN UFL (THU-MON) Night Football
10pm-UPN lead-in programming
On Saturdays, 14 games will be played and 6 on Sundays inside of the UFL Sunday Afternoon Football on UPN package. Bye weeks will decrease those numbers from time to time.
Details on the teams, full schedule, new league logo and original series info will all be released next week during the UFL's upfronts.