Our weekly look at Broadcast America, courtesy of the fine folks at the506.com.

There’s a continental divide of broadcasts on CBS this week, with nearly the entire western half the country getting the Denver-Kansas City game at 1 p.m., while the big Cleveland-Pittsburgh battle for supremacy in the AFC North gets little attention beyond the northeastern corner of the country. It’s an interesting divide, considering that the Browns-Steelers game in the bigger eastern markets will be called by the networks No. 1 crew of Jim Nantz and Phil Simms. Only a handful of people in local markets, meanwhile, will be subjected to Buffalo-Miami. The Cold, Hard Football Facts have confirmed that there's no truth to the rumor that CBS will merely rebroadcast one of their Bills-Dolphins games from 1990.

 

The marquee battle of Adrian Peterson-Brett Favre will go head-to-head against the CBS broadcast of Denver-Kansas City throughout much of the country, including virtually everywhere west of the Mississippi. Fox’s three other early broadcasts get limited local distribution.

 

Any doubt about the appeal of America’s Team is wiped out pretty much anytime you look at these maps involving a Cowboys game. It certainly doesn’t hurt when they’re up against a team from the nation’s biggest media market in a battle for divisional supremacy against a traditional rival. Dallas-N.Y. Giants receives the widest distribution of any game this week, along with the No. 1 crew of Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. Chicago-Oakland and Detroit-Arizona get only limited local distribution, proving that Jon Kitna’s 6-2 Detroit team isn’t quit yet ready to supplant Tomy Romo & Co. as media darlings. How ‘bout them Lions!! Anyone. Anyone?