All four network sports divisions are interested in bidding on the NFL's Thursday Night Football package.

CBS is paying the NFL $275 million a year for the 8-game package it simulcasts on NFL Network. The NFL holds a one-year option; it will decide after the season whether to stay with CBS one more season.

“This is about winning nights of television,” Turner president David Levy said. “If you’re in the broadcast business, you need to win nights of television. From a sports perspective, we get value on our rate from distributors, we get it from advertising, and we win nights of television. That’s important for your brands to continue to do.”

Ozzie Newsome testified under oath Thursday in the Ray Rice appeal hearing that he heard Ray Rice tell Roger Goodell during his June 16 disciplinary hearing that he had hit his then-fiancée in a casino hotel elevator, two sources told "Outside the Lines."

What occurred in the June 16 hearing is key to Rice's chances for reinstatement, sources said. He was suspended indefinitely Sept. 8 for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy after a video of him hitting Janay and knocking her out at an Atlantic City casino was released publicly.

Goodell originally had suspended the running back for two games.

"Outside the Lines" quoted four sources in September who said that Rice had told Goodell he struck Janay -- a claim Goodell has denied, saying that Rice's account to him in the June 16 meeting was "ambiguous." Goodell spent more than two hours testifying Wednesday.

Roger Goodell testified under oath Wednesday for two-plus hours in Ray Rice's appeal hearing in Manhattan, sources told "Outside the Lines."

Goodell spent the majority of his time testifying under cross-examination by outside union attorney Jeffrey Kessler, sources said. The sources did not disclose what Goodell said under testimony, citing a gag order in the case.

Rice and his wife, Janay, attended the hearing, which began midmorning at the offices of former U.S. District Judge Barbara S. Jones. Jones, who will decide the appeal, ruled that all witnesses would be testifying under oath.

The Rices are expected to testify separately Thursday, the sources said.