FOX Sports reaches deal to broadcast 'Thursday Night Football'

The National Football League (NFL) has announced that they have reached an agreement with FOX Sports to broadcast the next five seasons of "Thursday Night Football". The deal begins with the 2018 season.

The agreement gives FOX Sports 11 games between Weeks 4-15 (excluding Thanksgiving night) which will be broadcast on FOX, simulcast on NFL Network an distributed in Spanish on FOX Deportes.

FOX Sports will continue to broadcast NFC games on Sunday.

More information can be found in the full release from 21st Century FOX

21st Century FOX is the parent company of FOX 7 Austin.