Is Fantasy Football Over?

Last weekend reminded me, once again, why I consider ESPN2’s Fantasy Football Now the best pregame show for viewers.

“Our host Robert Flores says it at the top of every show we are here to get you a win,” says FFN coordinating producer Scott Clark, who has worked on the show for the past two years and has worked at ESPN since 1999.

It’s a monster business (the Fantasy Sports Trade Association reported that approximately $1.67 billion was spent on fantasy football in 2012) with a prized demographic and such growing interest is why fantasy football programming on television is exploding.

ET on ESPN2 each Sunday, the NFL Network airs NFL Fantasy Live weekdays from 5-6 p.m.

while CBS Sports Network has a dedicated fantasy football hour from 12-1 p.m on That Other Pregame Show.

(FOX Sports does not have a dedicated fantasy football-only show on its television platforms at the moment.) Worth noting is Sirius XM has a dedicated channel to fantasy sports Sirius XM Fantasy Sports Radio where 85-90 percent of its 134 hours of live programming is dedicated to fantasy football talk.

“We serve a very specific audience,” says Fantasy Football Now analyst Matthew Berry, one of the show’s fulltime staffers along with Flores, co-host Sara Walsh, medical analyst Stephania Bell and analyst Tim Hasselbeck.

“As someone who has worked on NFL Live, SportsCenter and Monday Night Countdown, your initial instincts when there is news isn’t to spin it toward fantasy football.

CBSSports.com fantasy analyst Dave Richard a longtime figure in the online space believes this is only the start of the televised fantasy football revolution.

slot on Sunday NFL Countdown (right after inactives are announced), a fantasy segment on Monday Night Countdown (for the first time this year) and fantasy segments on NFL Live, SportsCenter, Olbermann, SportsNation and Colin Cowherd’s new football show.