One of the Titans’ biggest fears is now a reality in latest NFL broadcast release
Good luck watching the Titans this weekend.
The Tennessee Titans have had a mostly miserable 2025 season so far. Many times, it feels like they’ve reached rock bottom, and then a new low is discovered. Titans fans have learned to stop saying “well, at least it can’t get worse” because the Titans keep saying “oh, yes, it can.”
But in at least one regard, Week 11 feels like an official low point that can’t get any worse.
Titans’ broadcast footprint is tiny in Week 11
If you aren’t in Middle Tennessee or Southeastern Texas, good luck watching the Texans visiting the Titans this week. Because you won’t find them on cable.
The Week 11 broadcast map for FOX in the early window shows the entire middle of the country dominated by Bears-Vikings. That includes East and West Tennessee, regions that are almost always getting the Titans game. South of Nashville, both Alabama and Mississippi are home to a ton of Titans fans who are used to getting the game each weekend, too. But this week they’ll get Packers-Giants instead.
When you look at the map, the Texans-Titans footprint is basically as small as it can legally be, especially in Tennessee. There’s a radius around Nashville that is required to broadcast each Titans game. You probably remember this region as the local area that used to require a blackout of the game if a certain attendance standard wasn’t met in the stadium.
Outside of that radius, regional broadcast partners are allowed to make decisions based on ratings as they see fit. FOX affiliates in Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Alabama, and Mississippi felt it best to keep this terrible Titans team off of fans’ screens in favor of what they think will be better games.
That means the bare minimum of Titans fans will actually watch their team this weekend, win, lose, or draw. And for the team, that’s a nightmare.