New NFL TV deals: $7 billion bonanza

The National Football League hit the jackpot in renewing with existing television outlets CBS, Fox and ESPN -- as the league's overall national media rights fees jumped more than 60%.

The NFL now gets about $4.3 billion in rights fees from national media. But with the new deals, including the $1.8 billion annually from ESPN's recent renewal through the 2021 season, total rights fees could come close to an estimated $7 billion. Among the programming changes: NBC will get the primetime Thanksgiving game starting next season and, starting in 2014, will get a divisional playoff game each year from Fox or CBS and in return lose one wild-card game, which presumably will go to ESPN. And there will be a new scheduling that will allow flex-scheduling that could move games between CBS, which has the AFC NFL TV package, and Fox, which has the NFC package. The NBC Sports Network, the cable TV being renamed from Versus next month, will add a Sunday morning NFL pregame show, possibly running at 10-noon a.m. ET. The NFL also keeps the opportunity to add more Thursday games beginning next year on NFL Network.