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FOX officially lands Thursday Night Football broadcast for 5 years

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Thursday Night Football has a new home for the next five years as FOX Sports announced Wednesday that it's officially won the bid to broadcast the weekly game, beginning in the 2018 season.

"As one of the leaders in sports television and a recognized innovator of NFL game broadcasts for many years, we're excited to be extending our partnership with FOX Sports, one of our most trusted and valued partners, to include Thursday Night Football," commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement obtained by Darren Heitner of Forbes.

The agreement includes 11 games during the season between Weeks 4-15. NFL Network will get seven exclusive games that will be produced by FOX. Sources told Darren Rovell of ESPN that the deal is worth an annual average of more than $660 million.

That would represent a significant increase in the value of the package, as CBS paid $37.5 million per game for eight games during the 2014 and 2015 seasons. NBC joined CBS the past two seasons and broadcast five games at a cost of $45 million each. FOX will pay an average of more than $60 million per game in the new deal.

Digital rights to Thursday Night Football belonged to Amazon Prime last year and have not yet been sold for the 2018 season.

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