Every club but Cleveland joined forces with CBS. Instead, CBS had to strike deals with individual teams to broadcast games into the teams' own markets, many of which CBS had purchased from the moribund DuMont Television Network. DuMont had already sold the rights to the NFL Championship to NBC in 1955, and when DuMont ended its regular season coverage, CBS acquired the rights.ĬBS's first attempts to broadcast the NFL on television were notable for there being no broadcasting contract with the league as a whole. In August 1956, the DuMont Television Network, the NFL's primary television partner, ended network operations after years of decline. Since 1975, game coverage has been preceded by pre-game show The NFL Today, which features game previews, extensive analysis and interviews. From 1970 until the end of the 1993 season, when Fox won the broadcast television contract to that particular conference, CBS aired NFL games from the National Football Conference. As a result, CBS became the first network to broadcast some NFL regular season games to selected television markets across the country. Prior to 1968, CBS had an assigned crew for each NFL team. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)ĬBS' coverage began on Septem(the first regular season broadcast was a game between the visiting Washington Redskins against the Pittsburgh Steelers), before the 1970 AFL–NFL merger. ( December 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. This article possibly contains original research.
2.1 Local preseason television coverage.2 Market coverage and television policies.1.7.1 CBS broadcasts via a secondary audio program and the internet.1.6.3 CBS introduces the "CBS Eye-lert".1.6.1 Jim Nantz and Greg Gumbel swap roles.1.5.3 Attempts at replacement programming.1.5.1 CBS broadcasts its final Super Bowl as the NFC package holder.1.4.5 The Fog Bowl and the first Turkey Leg Award.1.4.4 CBS starts broadcasting in stereo.1.4.1 The beginning of the Summerall-Madden era.1.3.4 Soundtracks, new graphics, and record Super Bowl ratings.1.3.2 Simulcasts in the San Francisco Bay Area and other experiments.1.2.6 The beginning of the semi-merit system.1.2.4 The beginning of the Super Bowl era.1.2.2 The fallout from the JFK assassination.
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1.2.1 The end of each team having its own TV coverage.