Double header (television)
A double header is the broadcast of two games of a sport one after the other without showing another program in between. In North America , games in a league often begin at the same local time, which is why there are "early" and "late" games due to the different time zones in the United States, for example .
Soccer
Premier League
In the UK , Sky Sports Doubleheader broadcasts Premier League games under the title "Super Sunday". The first game starts at 1:30 p.m. and the second follows at 4 p.m.
League MX
The Mexican television channel Canal de las Estrellas broadcasts two football matches as a double header on Sundays . The first game, usually a home game of the Deportivo Toluca or the UNAM Pumas, starts at 12 noon local time. The second game, typically a Club América home game, starts at 4 p.m. If two of the named teams have no home game, no double header will be broadcast. In the United States , Univision has been broadcasting this double header since 2012 .
World championships
At the soccer world championships , real-time games (e.g. 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.) are often broadcast as double headers. In Germany this was not the case as the games were interrupted by news broadcasts.
football
National Football League
Games in the National Football League (NFL) usually begin around 13 am local time, resulting in a double header at 13: 00/16: 25 pm in the Eastern time zone and a doubleheader at 10: 00/13: 25 pm in the Pacific time Zone leads.
The two channels with the broadcasting rights for the Sunday games - Fox and CBS - will broadcast the games as double headers during the regular season . In the first 16 weeks, Fox airs eight times and CBS double headers eight times, and both in the 17th week. NBC does not broadcast double headers.
Since the 2006 season , two Monday games are played in the first week, which ESPN broadcasts as a double header.
From the 2015 season onwards , the German private broadcaster ProSieben Maxx will be showing a double header every Sunday during the regular season. In addition, the International Series and the Thanksgiving Classic will be broadcast as double headers. The divisional play-offs and the championship games have been broadcast as double headers on the ran website since the 2014 season . From the 2015 season, all play-off games, with the exception of the Super Bowl, are to be shown on Sat.1 .
Canadian Football League
The owner of the broadcasting rights for the Canadian Football League (CFL), currently The Sports Network , airs double headers over and over again, usually on Saturdays or Sundays. Double headers are shown on Thanksgiving , Labor Day and also in the semi-finals and finals of the divisions in the play-offs of the CFL.
National Hockey League
In Canada , the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) broadcasts Hockey Night in Canada on Saturdays, a double header of the National Hockey League (NHL) during the regular season . The Canadian sports broadcaster The Sports Network often broadcasts a double header on Wednesdays. In the United States, NBCSN shows double headers as part of their NHL coverage.
National Basketball Association
In broadcasts of the National Basketball Association (NBA) there at Christmas two double header. Double headers are broadcast regularly on ESPN and TNT , and more rarely on ABC . In 2010 and 2011, a double header was broadcast on Thanksgiving , but this was discontinued for the 2012 season.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.zeitzonen.de/usa.html
- ↑ Dan Caesar Media Views: Rare NFL double doubleheader includes 8:30 am game . In: St. Louis Post-Dispatch , Lee Enterprises, October 24, 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.ran.de/us-sport/nfl/news/nfl-deal-touchdown-bei-prosiebensat-1-100670
- ↑ http://www.cfl.ca/article/cis_football__week_3 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Rosenbloom, Steve (November 29, 1998). "Selling Point". Chicago Tribune. Page 1. "The NBA told NBC it has canceled the Bulls and the rest of the traditional Christmas doubleheader — Bulls-Knicks and Lakers-Suns."
