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NY - The National football league is near to signing an eight-year extension of TV privileges deals to 2021 with broadcast partners CBS, Fox and NBC that will earn it about $3.2 billion annually, a 60 % increase within the current contract, the Wall Street Journal reported.our editor recommendsFox Sports Chief Talks Dodgers TV Deal, National football league Coverage (Q&A) Handled Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Forced Off Twitter by National football league Franchise (Report) Plus, previous handles Wally Disney's ESPN and satellite television giant DirecTV are required to seal average media costs around $6 billion for that league. The National football league rejected comment, the Journal stated. "Nobody around the broadcast finish really wants to do without the National football league," Lee Berke, owner and analyst at LHB Sports, Entertainment & Media, told the Journal. "They're going without them at their very own peril, and every one of that will get considered in when determining to bid excessive.Inch "The National football league can also be expected to have to wait some additional games to produce another eight-week package earlier within the season on Thursday nights to become offered to cable systems," Nomura Investments analyst Michael Nathanson stated inside a report Tuesday morning. "We expect Time Warner's Turner Systems, Comcast/NBCUniversal's recently top quality NBC Sports Network (formerly Versus) and News Corp.'s cable systems to any or all bid strongly with this package." Nathanson computes a 6 %-7 percent compound annual rate of growth in costs for that broadcast systems within the existence from the expected new deals "as well as an starting point-up in 2014 of 20 %-25 %, or between $150 million and $175 million." The very first-year step-ups in costs "associate to an adverse mid-single-digit earnings per share headwind for CBS and low-single-digit headwinds for News Corp. and Comcast," the analyst outlined. Younger crowd informed: "In the end think the road has lengthy patterned the advantages of retransmission [consent costs], we feel that many designs include overlooked the pending step-as much as 2014 programming costs." The brand new National football league deal seems to permit TV Everywhere privileges for systems, that could help boost retransmission costs later within the deal, based on Nathanson. His earnings model for News Corp. already includes $190 million as a whole retrans revenue in fiscal year 2012, $400 million in fiscal 2013 and $600 million in the year after. For CBS, he projects $300 million in 2012 and $345 million in 2013, which Nathanson stated can be conservative. Email: Georg.Szalai@thr.com Twitter: @georgszalai Related Subjects NBC CBS National football league