The announcement Saturday night signaled an unusually direct effort by the White House to influence college football scheduling and television programming.
The president promised an executive order granting an exclusive broadcast window for the game, which faces scheduling pressure if the College Football Playoff expands.
The move would be a boost to David Ellison's Paramount, which holds the rights to the game, and a blow to Disney's ESPN, which has College Football Playoff Rights.
Trump announces plan to control college football schedule to protect Army-Navy game - President teased an upcoming executive order that would force television networks to preserve a time slot and day ...
As the power brokers in college football try to muscle in on the exclusivity of the annual Army-Navy football game, President ...
President Donald Trump wants to make sure there are no interruptions between the Army and Navy annual game.
President Donald Trump plans to grant the Army-Navy game a 4-hour exclusive window through an executive order to protect the rivalry.
President Donald Trump said he will sign an executive order to create an exclusive broadcast window for the Army-Navy game, preventing it from competing with College Football Playoff games. The ...
President Donald Trump says he wants to sign an executive order to give the Army-Navy game its own exclusive broadcast time slot. The president says the order is aimed at preventing the College ...
U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he will soon sign an executive order that looks to bar college football playoffs and bowl games from being played on the same day ...
President Trump doesn't want any other football game to compete with the prestigious Army-Navy clash, as the NCAA considers expanding its playoffs. The president said on social media that he plans to ...
President Donald Trump said Saturday that he plans on signing an executive order that would give the Army-Navy Game an exclusive four-hour TV slot ...