Packers/bears on Thursday night

[cnjbucks]

Hi,

Next weeks game is on the NFL Network.  Will it be televised locally like ESPN games, or are Time Warner customers screwed?

[trev57]

Fox 6 carries all Packers games on NFL Network.

[mrschimpf]

WITI is carrying it, and I'm sure Simon Cowell and Gleeks aren't not happy at all; here it pushes the X Factor and Glee premieres back to post-midnight slots, while in Green Bay WGBA carries it, which means the America's Got Talent finale won't air until after Saturday Night Live on the 15th, which on WGBA might as well be on par with not airing it at all. Also it means we get the robotic Fox 6 network logo during the game in Fox hours, which I don't understand why it can't be turned off when the Fox feed is only being recorded for later.

In Chicago though it goes on WPWR, the MyNetworkTV affiliate, so there the only programs affected are Without a Trace and sitcom reruns.

I guess I don't understand having Thursday Night Football nor having a rivalry game so early in the season; to me it's better to wait until the middle of the season to get them in where contention is much more important than in the first 1/8 of the season.