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The history of the National Football League on television documents the long history of the National Football League on television.The NFL, along with boxing and professional wrestling (before the latter publicly became known as a "fake" sport), was a pioneer of sports broadcasting during a time when baseball and college football were more popular than professional football.
NFL on television. Television coverage of the National Football League is the subject of the following articles: National Football League on American television. National Football League on Canadian television. Categories: Set index articles.
The NFL operates NFL+, a streaming service that broadcasts live out-of-market preseason games, radio broadcasts from all 32 teams and Westwood One Sports, and live in-market games on mobile devices, in addition to library programming from NFL Films and NFL Network. A premium tier allows access to on-demand game replays.
1983. 30 January – Live American Football is seen in the UK for the first time when Channel 4 broadcasts live coverage of Super Bowl XVII. [2] 1984. 29 March – Screensport launches [3] and coverage of American Football is a significant part of its output throughout its time on air. 1985.
During this era, NBC broadcast pre-recorded and edited hour-long broadcasts of NFL games in the off-season under the title Best of Pro Football . On June 9, 1960, the league signed a five-year television contract with ABC, which brought in revenues of approximately $ 2,125,000 per year for the entire league. The deal called for ABC to broadcast ...
Television ratings in 1980 were the second-best in NFL history, trailing only the combined ratings of the 1976 season. All three networks posted gains, and NBC's 15.0 rating was its best ever. NFL broadcasts on CBS and ABC had their best ratings since 1977, with 15.3 and 20.8 ratings, respectively. Starting with the 1980 season, CBS frequently ...
At the time, there were few if any true national telecasts until the NFL championship game, which was carried by NBC. Schenkel was joined by Jim McKay, later Johnny Lujack through the 1950s and the early 1960s. As Giants players retired to the broadcast booth in the early and 1960s, first Pat Summerall, then Frank Gifford took the color analyst ...
With the expiration of the television contracts among ABC, CBS, ESPN, and Fox following the 2005 season, Super Bowl XL ended up being ABC's final NFL broadcast as a regular NFL broadcaster. Following the game, Monday Night Football moved to corporate sibling ESPN under the new CBS, Fox, NBC , ESPN, and NFL Network deal, which also saw ESPN and ABC being removed from the Super Bowl rotation.