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For the 1952 season, the NCAA relented somewhat, but limited telecasts to one nationally broadcast game each week. [10] The NCAA sold the exclusive rights to broadcast the weekly game to NBC for $1,144,000. The first game shown under this contract was Texas Christian University against the University of Kansas, on September 20, 1952.
Since the 1960s, all regular season and playoff games broadcast in the United States have been aired by national television networks. Until the broadcast contract ended in 2013, the terrestrial television networks CBS, NBC, and Fox, as well as cable television's ESPN, paid a combined total of US$20.4 billion [11] to broadcast NFL games.
College Football on NBC Sports is the de facto title used for broadcasts of NCAA college football games produced by NBC Sports. Via its experimental station W2XBS, NBC presented the first television broadcast of American football at any level on September 30, 1939, between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets. NBC held rights to ...
After ABC won an exclusive contract with the NCAA in 1966, CBS then retained the rights to air a few bowl games before returning to broadcast regular season games from the major conferences and major independents in 1982. After being outbid by ABC, CBS's college football coverage between 1991 and 1995 was again reduced to only a handful of bowl ...
After the NCAA broadcasting package was dismantled in 1984 following a Supreme Court ruling, TBS would broadcast SEC football from 1984 to 1992, along with selected bowl games through 2000. Regular-season college football returned to TBS in 2002 as part of a sub-licensing agreement with Fox Sports Net , broadcasting a package of Pac-10 and Big ...
The NCAA and ESPN announced that 40 NCAA championships, including women's basketball, baseball and softball, will be on ESPN for the next eight years. NCAA, ESPN reach deal that will broadcast 40 ...
ESPN had until Feb. 1 to exercise the option on a 20-year contract signed in 2016. Had the network not agreed to it, the partnership would have ended after the 2027 season.
Since the 2024 season, ABC's flagship broadcast is the SEC's top football package, which is branded on-air as the SEC on ABC with its own distinct on-air presentation; the SEC on ABC consists primarily of 3:30 p.m. ET games featuring SEC teams (succeeding the previous SEC on CBS), as well as selected Saturday Night Football telecasts.