Raiders finale won’t air on local television

The Raiders’ season finale Sunday against the Denver Broncos will not air in the Bay Area.

The game will be available only via NFL Ticket.

Typically, local CBS affiliate KPIX would carry the game, but it will instead be showing an NFC West game ( R ams- Cardinals) w ith playoff implications.

Dennis O’Donnell, sports director at KPIX, said it was a network decision.

“The network chose the Rams/Cardinals game because of the playoff implications,” O’Donnell wrote in an email Wednesday evening.

KPIX president Kevin Walsh had warned of this possibility in a story last month after coverage of the Raiders’ loss to Atlanta was pulled in the fourth quarter.

Despite the team’s move to Las Vegas, Bay Area network stations had continued to carry Raiders games. But This is the second week in a row that fans in the Bay Area will feel the pain of the Raiders’ departure to Las Vegas.

Saturday night’s game against Miami was exclusive to subscribers of the NFL Network, which waives its exclusive rights only to the local markets of the teams involved. To put it another way, a year ago, when the Raiders still were in the Bay Area, that game would have been available to fans in the Bay Area.

Not since December 2012 had a Raiders game not been made available to Bay Area viewers on network television. That game was blacked out, as many Raiders game were from 19952015. The NFL suspended its blackout rules in 2015, allowing regular viewing in the Bay Area.