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NFL Week 8 Coverage Map Analysis - 2023

The incredible people at 506 Sports make an NFL TV coverage map every week. I enjoy the minutiae of sports more than actual sports in most cases, and I love geography, so this one of my favorite sports-related things to look at. I've been sharing with a group chat and adding some of own highlights and analysis. The length of this endeavor has now exceeded the socially acceptable limit for a post in a group chat, so it's going to live here for as long as I remember to write it. This is probably the least interesting set of maps since I started doing this.

This week's map post can be found here: 506 Sports NFL Week 8 Map


CBS Early


Jaguars/Steelers is the national game here, which, ok I guess? I know Jacksonville is good now, but it still feels weird (for them to be good, and to be on TV outside of northeast Florida).

Jets/Giants only available in New York, more or less, and the same goes for Pats/Dolphins in their home areas, except for the latter being on in central Alabama. We've got a Bama alumni QB matchup! I was curious so I looked it up: Tua is about 6 months older than Mac, both born in 1998.

CBS Late


The big game here is a rematch of Super Bowls XVI and XXIII with Niners-Bengals on in most places, including Dallas, which DOESN'T get Chiefs-Broncos. Looks like Mahomes' hometown (Mahomestown?) of Whitehouse/Tyler will get to seem him though. My current hometown of Waco right on the line, so I guess I'll get to see how precise the map is this week. I'd always rather watch Mahomes.

Really curious about the reasoning in the Dallas area here. Are there more LSU people than Texas Tech people in Dallas? That seems unlikely. Do Dallas people still hate watch the Niners? Growing up as a Cowboys fan, I HATED the Niners so much in the 90s. You know, Dwight Clark (before I was born lol) and Steve Young and all that. But that seems so, so long ago.

The Ravens/Cardinals bird showdown will be seen in, well, Baltimore and Arizona.

FOX


Ah, here's the magical mess that brings us to the map week after week.

Rams/Cowboys is the defacto national game but there are a lot of locals mixed in. St. Louis gets the Rams this week for the first time in a few. My local correspondents say most football fans in St. Louis gave up on the Rams when they left, for very understandable reasons. So may there is not thought at all to St. Louis' former (and brief, if fun) ties to the team. We also see the Cowboys' Lifestyle Brand Supremacy here in the Lone Star State. I think this is the first time this year we've had Dallas and Houston games on the same network in the same time slot, and it's not great for Texans fans outside of the Houston and greater southeast Texas!

This week's Snowbird Special is Eagles/Commies (such a funny nickname), viewable in the West Palm Beach metro area. It's (obviously) also on in Philly and the DMV, as well as eastern New York State (not obvious). Anyone know why Albany gets this game? Google tells me Nick Sirianni is from upstate New York, but his high school was in the far western Great Lakes region.

The Northeast is general patchwork for FOX this week. Albany, Boston and Hartford all get different games. Maybe it's just that counter-programming the Pats and a battle for Meadowlands supremacy is basically impossible and just doesn't matter.

As far as I can tell, it looks like the random smattering of late slot Cleveland/Seattle is to avoid a FOX game up against the local game on CBS in the early slot.

Northern Indiana Watch: Chicagoland gets the NFC North's Vikings/Packers (as does the rest of the northern Great Plains). South Bend at Fort Wayne get the Colts. This has become one of the more interesting regions to check, but it's simple this week with the Bears and Lions both on national TV.
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