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This is a list of active NFL broadcasters, including those for each individual team as well as those that have national rights. Unlike the other three major professional sports leagues in the U.S. (Major League Baseball, the NBA and the NHL), all regular-season and post-season games are shown on American television on one of the national networks.
The Sports Broadcasting Act was passed in response to a U.S. District Court decision which ruled that the National Football League's method of negotiating television broadcasting rights violated antitrust laws. [2] [3] The court ruled that the "pooling" of rights by all the teams to conclude an exclusive contract between the league and CBS was ...
Lists of National Football League announcers by team (27 P) Pages in category "Lists of National Football League announcers" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
The NFL season has arrived.. The season begins with a heavyweight matchup Thursday night featuring the Baltimore Ravens and defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium ...
In January 2014, reports surfaced that the NFL was shopping a selection of up to eight games from its Thursday Night Football package to other broadcasters, including the league's existing broadcast partners, along with Turner Sports. While the league was seeking either a cable or broadcast outlet, they were strongly considering the latter.
National television broadcasts of the National Football League (NFL) first aired on ESPN in 1980, when the network broadcast the 1980 NFL draft. ESPN did not air live NFL games until 1987, when it acquired the rights to Sunday Night Football. In 2006, ESPN lost the rights to Sunday Night Football and began airing Monday Night Football (MNF ...
The network had taken over the broadcast rights from the DuMont Television Network, which had struggled to give the league a national audience (NBC's coverage of proto-Canadian Football League games from the year prior was more widely available at the time) and was on the brink of failure; the NFL's associations with NBC (as well as with CBS ...
National television broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games first aired on ABC from 1948 to 1951. Between 1970 and 2005 , Monday Night Football aired exclusively on ABC. In 2006 , ESPN took over as the exclusive rights holder to Monday Night Football , and the ABC Sports division was merged into ESPN Inc. by parent company Disney .