Big TV news news out of the U.K. this afternoon, as News Corp. (which of course owns Fox News Channel) has agreed to sell its Sky News channel, in an effort to win regulatory approval of its proposed purchase of BskyB.

The BBC broke the news of the sale earlier today.

In a nutshell, Sky News is News Corp.’s 24-hour U.K.-centric news channel, while BskyB is a mini media conglomerate, with the popular entertainment network Sky1, as well as the Sky Sports channels, which have as strong a presence on TV sets there as ESPN does here.

Fox News actually became a point of contention in the matter, as the NY Times reports:

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Sunday night, former Green Bay Packer great Brett Favre returned to Lambeau Field as a Minnesota Viking. Today, NBC Sports says that the game was the most watched Sunday Night Football broadcast of all time, watched by 25.7 million total viewers, and drawing a 15.4 rating/25 share.

The previous record holder was week one of this season, when the Dallas Cowboys played the Washington Redskins.

The Vikings-Packers game is also the highest rated primetime NFL game played in October since 1996, and was up a whopping 71% from last week’s game.

More information in the press release after the jump.

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It’s about time CBS showed some love to Gus Johnson.

After several weeks of getting stuck with games that were blacked out locally, Johnson and Steve Tasker will call Kansas City-Houston on Sunday.

We might finally get our first Gus Johnson moment of the season:

“JACOBY JONES DOWN THE SIDELINE. CAN THEY CATCH HIM? JONES! WOW! TOUCHDOWN, HOUSTON!”

Below are the broadcast teams for Week 6 of, “Where In The World is Gus Johnson?”

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