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The Lions/Bears game is on CBS. 

Here's a schedule for future reference:  2016/17 NFL Schedule

The Lions/Bears game is on CBS.

ETA link:  http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/nfl-tv-schedule-fox-cbs-nbc-sunday-night-football-espn-mnf-nfln-tnf/

I think I know what happened.  At the last minute, South Bend's CBS station decided to switch from the Lions-Bears game to the Texans-Colts game.  (You will have to ask the station why.)  The original poster may have gotten that game confused with the Eagles-Redskins game.  I don't understand how, say, Xfinity would have been showing the Lions-Bears game, unless it gets WBBT (Chicago).

There is another possibility; apparently, WSBT (South Bend's CBS affiliate) took over the Fox affiliate and airs it on a subchannel.  While both channels are listed as airing on U-Verse, somebody at whoever controls U-Verse's South Bend local programming might have inadvertantly switched the channels.

This reminds me of a situation, which thankfully seems to be a thing of the past, now that NFL Sunday Ticket is relatively easy to find.

I live in an area with a lot of fans from three different NFL teams that primarily air on CBS. Our local affiliate usually shows just one team, as two of the teams tend to play in the same time slot. Typically, the fans of the team that wasn't shown would complain. They'd complain to the local paper, the local CBS affiliate, anyone with an ear.

The local affiliate asked the NFL if they could air the other team on a subchannel, delayed, an alternate channel or anything else. Naturally, the NFL always said no.

This reminds me of a situation, which thankfully seems to be a thing of the past, now that NFL Sunday Ticket is relatively easy to find.

 

I live in an area with a lot of fans from three different NFL teams that primarily air on CBS. Our local affiliate usually shows just one team, as two of the teams tend to play in the same time slot. Typically, the fans of the team that wasn't shown would complain. They'd complain to the local paper, the local CBS affiliate, anyone with an ear.

 

The local affiliate asked the NFL if they could air the other team on a subchannel, delayed, an alternate channel or anything else. Naturally, the NFL always said no.

I was under the impression that NFL Sunday Ticket was one of the main reasons the NFL was so inflexible about this sort of thing, especially after the exclusivity deal with DirecTV.

San Francisco (and, to a lesser extent, New York, and I think Baltimore/Washington as well) has a similar problem; most weeks, one of the 49ers and Raiders has a 1:00 Eastern away game, and the other has a 4:05/4:25 home game - and it used to be that, more often than not, the home game was on the network that did not have the doubleheader that day.  There were years where San Francisco got only three or four doubleheaders all season.  (This was actually worse before 2000, back in the days when no doubleheader was allowed if either local team had a home game, even if it was sold out and on that week's doubleheader network.)