The Green Bay Packers make their first road trip of the season this Sunday, heading roughly 400 miles southeast to the shores of Lake Erie to take on the Cleveland Browns. The week 3 matchup will also be the first time the Packers play at 1 PM Eastern/12 Noon Central this season, which means that fans outside of Wisconsin need to pay close attention to the local TV broadcast map.
Unfortunately for fans outside the Midwest, the map is not particularly favorable. Packers-Browns will be televised on FOX, but it kicks off at the same time as a big NFC battle between the Los Angeles Rams and Philadelphia Eagles. As a result, a large portion of the country will see that game, while other, smaller footprints get one of three other games.
Here’s a look at the broadcast map from 506sports.com, with Packers-Browns shown in green. That game will be on the air in all parts of Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Alaska, and Indiana, along with most of Illinois, Kentucky, and Montana as well.
Rams-Eagles is the game identified in red above, which gets a wide audience for a five-game window. Other games include Jets-Buccaneers (blue), Raiders-Commanders (yellow), and Falcons-Panthers (orange).
Thankfully, Packers fans outside of Wisconsin should not need to work too hard to tune in for the team’s next two games. Week 4 features the Packers at the Cowboys on Sunday Night Football, a national broadcast, while week six (following the Packers’ bye week) finds Green Bay hosting the Cincinnati Bengals in CBS’ game of the week in the late afternoon window.
As a reminder: for fans who are not in areas where the Packers’ game is on their local FOX affiliate, options for watching the game are limited to NFL Sunday Ticket on Youtube or heading to a local establishment with access to Sunday Ticket.