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NFL Gives L.A. Viewers a Break on Exciting Endings

Sunday’s thrilling Raiders-Bills game was tele­vised in Los Ange­les on KCBS — right up until the most thrilling part, when view­ers were shifted from the great Raiders-Bills end­ing to three min­utes of com­mer­cials, fol­lowed by kick­off of the Chargers-Patriots game.

It wasn’t quite as bad as the Heidi Game, but for fans who wanted to see the end­ing of a great game, it was pretty bad. And now the NFL has seen the error of its ways.

The league told ESPNLosAngeles.com that the NFL has decided that in the future, it will allow KCBS view­ers to see the end­ing of close games rather than forc­ing the affil­i­ate to cut away to show the start of Charg­ers games. That’s a rever­sal of long­stand­ing league pol­icy that views Los Ange­les as a “sec­ondary mar­ket” for the Charg­ers and there­fore requires the L.A. affil­i­ate to show Charg­ers games in their entirety.

At the time that KCBS cut off Raiders-Bills, Oak­land had a 35–31 lead. View­ers missed the Bills ral­ly­ing to win 38–35. The next time the Raiders choke away a lead just as the Charg­ers are kick­ing off, their fans in Los Ange­les can see it.

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