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''NFL RedZone'' (stylized as ''NFL RedZone from NFL Network'') is an American
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channel owned and operated by
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since 2009. As a "special" game-day exclusive, it broadcasts on Sundays during the
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from 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
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(10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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), or when the last afternoon window game ends. ''RedZone'' provides "whip around"
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coverage of all Sunday afternoon games airing in-progress on
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and Fox. ''RedZone'' is based out of the
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studios and is hosted by Scott Hanson, and airs commercial-free. The channel prides itself on showing "every touchdown from every game," and is closely linked to Fantasy Football, reporting superlatives and tracking various statistical accomplishments throughout the afternoon. ''RedZone'' monitors coverage of the traditional Sunday 1:00 p.m. "early" games and 4:05/4:25 p.m. "late" games. ''RedZone'' is offered by numerous cable providers,
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, and
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s, but specifically is not available on
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, which offers its own version ('' Red Zone Channel'' hosted by
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) as part of
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. ''RedZone'' is also broadcast live internationally in the
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on the Sky Sports Mix television channel, and in Canada and Italy on
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, every Sunday evening and running through the full seven hours. It is a direct
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of the American feed, with no commercial breaks, live coverage of both the early and late games and Hanson hosting. ''
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'', a channel which debuted one year later, broadcast
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with a similar format and style until the end of the 2019 season. The name "RedZone" derives from the term red zone, which is the part of the football field between the 20-yard line and the goal line.


Format

On game day, the ''RedZone'' channel signs-on at 12:55 p.m., US Eastern time. The countdown clock counts down the minutes and seconds until the start of the game coverage. As of December 6, 2020, the channel has featured 200 weeks of coverage since its debut.


Whip around coverage

At 1:00 p.m. (Eastern) the ''RedZone'' program begins, and immediately dives into live look-ins across the league. Host Scott Hanson gives a brief introduction of the day, highlighting key developing stories, as teams are typically already lining up for opening kickoff. When the first kickoff takes place, Hanson will say "Seven hours of commercial-free football... starts now!" Coverage of the opening kickoffs and a cursory look at early drives that are being established are the initial focus. Coverage is normally shown in full-screen, with one particular game as the primary focus for the moment. The coverage is a direct simulcast of the
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or Fox broadcast feed and commentary, with only occasional and usually brief voice-over comments by Hanson as needed. Coverage sometimes switches to
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, with two, three, four ("quad-box"), five ("Penta-box"), or as many as eight ("Octo-box") game feeds being shown simultaneously. Producers in the studio monitor all game feeds in-progress, and decide which game to feature at any given moment. NFL television rules are exempted for ''RedZone'', and live look-ins of games that are subject to blackout are still allowed to be aired in all markets. Whenever a team enters the red zone, the coverage will switch to a full-screen live look-in of that game's television broadcast. It will attempt to cover a potential scoring result (touchdown or field goal). Meanwhile, the other games continue to be monitored, in case the need arises to switch to another feed at short notice. Field goal attempts from outside the red zone are sometimes shown, either live or in replay, if they pose significance to the outcome of the respective game. As the games enter halftime, the coverage shifts over to games still finishing up the second quarter, even if there are no teams in the red zone. Some noncompetitive games that would otherwise not be looked at may take the attention for a few minutes, in order to fill the broadcast with as much live football coverage as possible. As soon as better games start returning for the third quarter, second half kickoffs typically take a priority. If there are no teams in the red zone at a given moment, the focus may shift to a team on a strong offensive drive, or an otherwise important game of the day. Despite the channel's moniker, a team does not have to be inside the red zone for the focus and coverage to shift to that game. During the latter portion of the season, extra sidebar attention may be given to teams fighting for playoff berths, and the respective status thereof. The "whip around" coverage also is used to show quick replays of major plays such as turnovers, deep pass completions, very long runs from scrimmage, kickoff/punt return touchdowns, and other potentially interesting or important key plays. The "Game Rewind" feature is sometimes used to replay a significant play that resulted in a particular team entering the red zone. Hanson rarely takes any kind of rest break during RedZone's seven hours on the air, and since the early years of the channel he has purposefully planned out his eating and drinking schedule during the regular season to avoid any need for a restroom break, having boasted on Twitter on December 10, 2017 (that year's Week 14) about his first restroom break in four years of NFL RedZone coverage. It is not unusual for ''RedZone'' to switch between two or more games in quick succession, even between individual plays. Despite an effort made by producers to air all touchdowns
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, some scoring plays are actually aired after a very brief time shift – ranging from as much as 30 to 60 seconds – sometimes because another scoring play is unfolding elsewhere. Time shifting can also occur if the scoring play happened unexpectedly, and/or initiated from outside the red zone. In those cases, the coverage is aired plausibly live with no mention that the coverage is slightly behind real time (though Hanson often tries to introduce the switch with some kind of segue, such as 'while we were watching that (play)...' to note it isn't live video). As the 1 p.m. "early" games begin to conclude, ''RedZone'' seamlessly leads into coverage of the 4:05/4:25 p.m. "late" games, though on afternoons where all early game action has ended, extended statistical rundowns and check-ins on team press conferences may occur to fill the time before those late games start. When the "early" games are in the fourth quarter, attention begins to focus on ''one-possession'' games (games within 8 points); Hanson will additionally introduce the fourth quarter coverage as " The Witching Hour; where wins become losses, and losses become wins". Likewise, early games that go into overtime are usually prioritized, but never at the expense of missing touchdowns in other games that just started. As the 4 p.m. "late" games begin to arrive at their conclusions, coverage will likewise narrow down to the remaining games still ongoing. At which time there is only one game left being played, coverage will switch to full-screen and see out its conclusion, irrespective of its competitiveness. When each game is concluded, a final score alert will flash on the bottom corner of the screen to inform viewers. This is especially important for games that have not had a live look-in for many minutes. Periodically throughout the afternoon, producers keep track of and update viewers on the status of fantasy football statistics, and/or other statistical superlatives. With the legalization of
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in several states beginning in 2020, it also points out the over–under and certain betting statistics provided by league partner Caesars Sportsbook. The channel's priority, however, is to show every touchdown scored in every game throughout the afternoon. During the entire day, ''RedZone'' features a ticker at the bottom of the screen, updating scores and stats throughout the league. The ticker is situated in such a way that it is superimposed over the respective tickers of CBS and FOX. On occasion, technical difficulties could prevent RedZone from showing certain touchdowns live. During Week 1 in the 2019 season, a technical issue with the CBS broadcast prevented a live look at a touchdown in the
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game; the touchdown was later shown using video from the scoreboard at
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. Similar issues during Week 2 in 2020 prevented two touchdowns in the
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game from being broadcast live; both touchdowns were later aired on replay (with one aired from the Dolphins' Instagram feed).


Commercial-free format

''RedZone'' operates as a commercial-free service; as such, whenever a game taking primary focus goes to a broadcaster-designated commercial break or other stoppage (such as timeout, instant replay challenge or an injury timeout), the feed will immediately switch to the next most-interesting game in-progress at the moment. Despite the network's commercial-free commitment, commercials are not completely avoided as sometimes the network coverage may take a break faster than expected, causing the first second or two of a commercial to air, before RedZone quickly cuts to another game, which usually includes Hanson jokingly playing off the brush with the accompanying commercial with some kind of snark. Additionally, broadcast network promotions of their programming (most notably CBS and Fox promoting their Sunday night primetime lineups) will be shown as a natural part of the coverage. If all games being held at a given moment are on a commercial break or in halftime, coverage will revert to the studio for brief commentary, replays, or statistical analysis by Hanson. In the "late" timeslot (when there are fewer games to choose from), highlight packages of selected "early" games may be shown during down times.


Touchdown montage and sign-off

The network's broadcast day ends when the final Sunday afternoon game concludes, or at 8:00 p.m. (Eastern). At the conclusion of the coverage, an edited montage of every touchdown scored throughout the afternoon is aired. Until 2018, due to contractual obligations, ''RedZone'' was required to
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no later than 8:00 p.m., even if a late afternoon game(s) was still in progress; this was due to avoid a conflict with NBC's Sunday night game broadcast. This was rectified in the 2019 season, such that any game that ends after 8:00 p.m. would continue airing on ''RedZone'' until its conclusion. If the ''RedZone'' signs-off with inadequate time for the touchdown montage (which can vary from 5–10 minutes in duration), it will be posted online instead. At the onset, the total number of touchdowns for the afternoon by type (offensive, defensive, and special teams) is listed on a graphic, with a running tally for the entire season also shown. In some cases, when games are running close to the 8:00 p.m. deadline, the touchdown montage has been shown in a
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format. The montage is shown in a prominent square with audio, while the game still being played is shown in a lesser square in the corner of the screen without audio. This is done particularly when the game still being played is a nationally-televised game – a situation in which most viewers in most markets across the country (per NFL television rules) could simply switch to CBS or FOX to watch the game to its conclusion. if there is only one game remaining in play in the late window, the host will advise viewers that those in the U.S. will need to switch to the applicable network to watch the game to its conclusion, and ''RedZone'' will then proceed to its touchdown montage (international viewers are switched directly to the remaining game's network feed to its conclusion). This rule applies even in the rare event that the only game remaining is a regional broadcast (4:05 p.m. ET start) on the non-doubleheader network, which has on at least one occasion led to the host unintentionally providing misleading information about that game's availability.


Off-air periods

After the broadcast day ends (≈ 8:00 p.m.) ''RedZone'' remains
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until the following Sunday. During the week, as well as during playoffs and off-season, a generic
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advertisement is shown, accompanied by music from
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. However, cable providers may overlay their own tie-in title card. Providers are disallowed from using the channel space for other purposes during its off-time. While the ''RedZone'' channel is only utilized for Sunday 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. (Eastern) games, in the unique instance in which Christmas Day falls on a Sunday, and the full slate of Week 16 afternoon games is switched to Saturday, the ''RedZone'' channel is activated for that Saturday afternoon schedule. ''RedZone'' is not on-air during Thursday night, Sunday night, Monday night, and any stand-alone Saturday night games, not for
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games which are scheduled in an early Sunday morning timeslot. It also does not cover Thanksgiving games or postseason games. During the offseason breaks since the 2016 season,
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has re-ran the previous season's ''RedZone'' presentations. During seventeen selected Sunday afternoons in the spring and early summer, all seventeen weeks of the regular season as seen on ''RedZone'' are re-aired, with editing for length and content and ad breaks inserted. The 2019 re-run of the season was compressed in April 2020 to air throughout the month on consecutive days on a thrice-daily loop on the RedZone channel space, due to the
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leaving the network wanting of content not involving live studio shows for the safety of their staff, as their facilities in California and the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area were closed due to
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s and to allow NFL Network's traditional Draft run-up shows to air. Another rerun of seventeen consecutive days was done during what is usually the pre-season in late August, which was cancelled out in full, leaving the channel without its usual preview night in the last week of the pre-season.


Preseason

Through 2013, during select nights of the
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, special "whip around" coverage aired on the primary
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. It followed the same style as ''RedZone'' and utilized the same production team and host. Starting in 2014, preseason "whip around" coverage moved to the ''RedZone'' channel itself. On four selected nights in August ''RedZone'' aired as part of a free preview of the service for all providers. Week 1 (Friday), weeks 2–3 (Saturday), and week 4 (Thursday) of the preseason featured the familiar "whip around" coverage. The broadcast utilized national and local team coverage feeds, as most preseason games are carried through
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s or 'state/team networks' made up of local broadcast stations. Coverage started at 7:00 p.m. ET In 2015, ''RedZone'' aired a free preview during the preseason for five selected nights, and during Week 1 of the regular season. In 2016, ''RedZone'' aired a free preview on four selected nights during the preseason starting August 11 and during Week 1 of the regular season. In 2017, RedZone aired only once during preseason.


Availability

The RedZone Channel is available on most American pay television providers carrying the NFL Network, and is presented in both standard and high definition; availability of the channel depends on the service tier. Some carriers might carry NFL Network available on their main digital tier, while ''RedZone'' might be relegated to a digital sports tier at an additional cost. Access to the network is available through the Watch NFL Network mobile app via a subscriber's
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credentials if offered by their provider, or through a provider's own viewing app. Before the 2018 season, the app was one of the few exceptions where some form of access to NFL games is offered beyond
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subscribers due to that provider's mobile rights exclusivity (That season, Verizon-owned
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opened its live NFL streams to users from other mobile phone providers). Including the 18 Sundays of the
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, and as many as five special broadcasts during the
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, ''RedZone'' broadcasts a total of 18–22 days out of the year. In the United Kingdom, NFL RedZone is broadcast in full on Sky Sports Mix. Since 2014, NFL RedZone aired in Australia on
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until 2019. In Canada, starting in
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, NFL RedZone is included for subscribers of TSN through TSN.ca and the TSN Go mobile app. A French-language version is also available on RDS.ca and RDS Direct. ESPN Latin America began to air NFL RedZone in 2016. It features two pairs of Spanish-language announcers, one for the early games and another for the late games. In Spain, starting in
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, NFL RedZone is broadcast in full on Deportes por Movistar Plus+.


Criticism

''RedZone'' has generally received favorable to positive reviews, and its product has been referred to as a form of
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. Some complaints deal with viewers not seeing equal coverage of all games across the league, the inability to see outstanding defensive team performances (outside of defensive scores), and emphasis on individual players instead of teams. Games in the "early" time slot that become
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s are sometimes completely ignored (except for very brief replays of touchdowns to maintain the promise of showing "every touchdown from every game", or merely to fill time when other games are in commercial) Likewise a scoreless, or very low scoring game, will not garner much attention either until the end of the game if still tied. Furthermore, many fans still prefer to watch complete games. Other complaints include middling games without playoff or draft positioning implications being nearly pushed off the channel in the last weeks of the season, with only cursory glances at highlights, fantasy stats, and scores for those match-ups. One source of criticism stems from ''RedZone'' potentially drawing viewers away from the traditional broadcasts on
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and Fox, and likewise devaluing the commercial values for advertisers. In the
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, when Fox had 100% national coverage for the two late games during Week 3, the network moved its scoreboard graphic during these games so that the play clock and quarter indicator would be cut off by ''RedZone'''s ticker. The decision was believed to be an attempt to encourage viewers to watch the game on their local Fox station instead. Initially, this prompted ''RedZone'' to overlay its own scorebox and time graphic. In
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, ''RedZone'' began to simply hide its ticker entirely when simulcasting Fox games with a lower scoreboard.


Similar channels


DirecTV ''Red Zone Channel''

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, and hosted by
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. Despite their similar names and formats, the two channels are independent from each other, and the DirecTV service launched two years ahead of the NFL Network-run ''RedZone''. In December 2022, with the announcement that rights to NFL Sunday Ticket will move exclusively to YouTube, it was confirmed that the service will not produce its own equivalent, and will simply distribute ''RedZone''.


ESPN Goal Line

''
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'' aired live look-ins of
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games in a similar format and style as ''NFL RedZone''. Hosted by Matt Schick. Established in 2010, the channel ceased operations in 2020.


SiriusXM's ''The Sunday Drive''

Apart from the ''RedZone'' channel, a similar service is aired parallel on Sirius XM NFL Radio, hosted by "Judge" Steve Torre and Bill Lekas. (Zach Gelb fills in when Torre is unavailable.) During the Sunday afternoon games, ''The Sunday Drive'' monitors all games in progress across the league. Any time a team enters the red zone, they will cut-in to the team's live local radio broadcast to cover potential scoring action. Until 2014, this audio was also carried on NFL Network during Sunday afternoon games, overlaid with textual scores and stats to avert any form of competition with the league's broadcast partners. In the past it featured more of a "carousel" type of format where reporters at each game would check in via telephone with the basic score, scoring plays and statistics, as most
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networks and stations that do not carry game play-by-play do.


Learfield IMG's ''College Football Blitz''

Similar to ''The Sunday Drive'' above, Learfield IMG provides a whip-around radio service for college football that airs on
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and
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's
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service, for schools that utilize Learfield IMG to produce and distribute their broadcasts. Starting in 2015, ''College Football Blitz'' airs on Saturdays during college football season from noon to midnight
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, and like ''The Sunday Drive'', cuts into local team broadcasts for possible scoring action. The show is hosted by Stephen Hartzell, with Phil Brame and Adam Witten sometimes taking over for evening hours.


Soccer

In the past few years, there has been an effort to bring Redzone-like programming to professional
soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
with Paramount's Golazo Show covering
UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competi ...
and Europa League matches, an
Goal Rush
for English Premier League matches.


See also

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List of personalities on NFL Network Past and present television personalities on the NFL Network. Current NFL Network personalities * Kay Adams: (2016–present) host * Jill Arrington: (2018–present) host * LaVar Arrington: (2013–present) analyst * Brian Baldinger: (2003–pr ...
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NFL Sunday Ticket NFL Sunday Ticket is an out-of-market sports package that broadcasts National Football League (NFL) regular season games unavailable on local affiliates. It carries all regional Sunday afternoon games produced by Fox and CBS. The ideal custome ...


References


External links


NFL Network official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nfl redzone English-language television stations in the United States Commercial-free television networks NFL Network Sports television networks in the United States Television channels and stations established in 2009