The NFL is negotiating to extend its television contracts with CBS and Fox by two years, sources said, taking the deals through the 2013 season. The developments emerged as the league late last week was said to be on the verge of settling its long-running dispute with Comcast over the cable distribution of NFL Network. As an incentive to get cable operators to agree to carry its poorly distributed cable channel, the NFL has been dangling the idea of bundling in Sunday Ticket's Red Zone Channel, which shows live-game look-ins during the league's Sunday afternoon games but the NFL needs to get permission from its Sunday afternoon broadcasters, CBS and Fox, before making such a channel widely available on cable. Source: Sports Business Journal
