Overview
- Trump said he plans an executive order creating an exclusive four-hour broadcast window on the second Saturday in December for the Army–Navy football game.
- He framed the move as protecting a long-standing tradition from College Football Playoff scheduling and what he called pressure from television interests.
- How such an order would be enforced against private broadcasters and independent sports bodies remains unclear, according to multiple reports.
- CBS holds Army–Navy rights through 2038, while ESPN controls the College Football Playoff through 2031–32 with some sublicensing to TNT.
- CFP commissioners meet in Miami with a Jan. 23 deadline on potential expansion, including proposals featuring early-December play-in games that could conflict, and last year’s Army–Navy broadcast overlapped with the LA Bowl.