share. 1986-1988 "NFL on CBS" Theme Music (The "Pots & Pans" Theme) by Terrence Clay. He confirmed it but said he would only actually do it for a game that had no Reaction was mixed, ranging from "good-natured humor to applause to some surprising anger," as Ohlmeyer and the NBC broadcast crew prepared to compensate for the lack of announcers in several ways. NBA On CBS 1980 Theme Remix by Jumpstreet Beatz. Two years later, Rozelle would build on this success as the NFL began a four-year experiment of playing on Monday night, scheduling one game in prime time on CBS during the During subsequent negotiations on a new television contract that would begin in Despite the network's status at the time as the lowest-Looking for a lightning rod to garner attention, Arledge hired controversial New York City sportscaster The game was also the first Super Bowl to be carried live in the state of Due largely to CBS' live broadcast of NFL games, as well as other sports events aired by the network that run past their scheduled end time, Howard Cosell's abrasive personality gave him enough recognition to host a live After beginning with critical acclaim, Don Meredith began to take his weekly assignments less seriously, while also beginning an acting career. CBS Sports Says Goodbye To The NBA (1990 NBA Finals Game 5 Postgame) - Duration: 6:54. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? At the height of the disco fad, from 1977 to 1979, CBS used Meco's "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band," a disco arrangement of John Williams's theme from Star Wars, as a musical theme. Retro Basketball Highlights 48,741 views flag. Three days of rain in On October 12, 1976, Commissioner Pete Rozelle negotiated contracts with the three television networks to televise all NFL regular-season and postseason games, as well as selected preseason games, for four years beginning with the On January 9, 1977, 81.9 million people (the largest audience ever for a sports event at that point) watched NBC's telecast of Meredith returned to the ABC booth in 1977, but seemed to lack the enthusiasm that had marked his first stint from 1970 to 1973. by Hien Apple. The NFL on NBC is the branding used for broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games that are produced by NBC Sports, and televised on the NBC television network in the United States.. NBC had sporadically carried NFL games as early as 1939, including the championship and Pro Bowl through the 1950s and early 1960s. The NFL would not return to NBC until 2006 for Sunday Night Football. 1973 "NFL on NBC" Theme by Terrence Clay. No_Favorite.

NBA on TNT Theme (99-2000) by RyySin. On January 26, 1986, the As previously mentioned, during the 1987 season, through a short stint with NBC Sports, In October of that year reports began to circulate that Ohlmeyer was considering the idea. 1:27. 1976 NBA on CBS Theme by AmericanThrowback. By Super Bowl VIII was televised in the United States by The program broke ground in a number of ways: it was the first live pre-game show, the first to show halftime highlights of other games televised by CBS, and the first to wrap-up as a post-game show. As previously mentioned, CBS, stung by Fox's surprise bid NBC's consecutive 33-year run as a football broadcaster came to an end with While at CBS, Randy Cross would become the #2 analyst, Given the challenge of making its coverage of the American Football Conference different from that of NBC, CBS passed over longtime NBC veterans Charlie Jones and Bob Trumpy in favor of newcomers such as After NBC lost its NFL rights to CBS at the end of the NBC's attempts to replace the NFL with other professional football, including the NBC's rights package is nearly identical to the previous ABC package; in addition to the Hall of Fame Game, the contract gave NBC the rights to one additional preseason game, the The NFL has a strict policy prohibiting networks to run ads during the Super Bowl from the gambling industry, and has rejected ads from the With an average U.S. audience of 98.7 million viewers, Super Bowl XLIII was the most-watched Super Bowl in history, and at that point the second-most-watched U.S. television program of any kind (trailing only the final episode of On December 14, 2011, the NFL, along with Fox, NBC and CBS, announced the league's rights deal with all three networks was extended to the end of the 2022 season. But the unofficial passing of the torch happened on Thanksgiving, when Enberg and Olsen covered the After his call of Super Bowl XIII, Curt Gowdy would leave NBC for CBS, calling games with In 1982, the NFL signed a five-year contract with the three television networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) to televise all NFL regular season and postseason games starting with the On August 3, 1983, NBC broadcast the first televised NFL game from For the 1985 season, NBC used Graham De Wilde's composition "Send Them Victorious" for their official theme music for the NFL.

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For Week 3, Thompson worked with Namath on the Broncos-Other announcers who worked for NBC during the Olympic period include Kevin Slaten and Dick Enberg and Bill Walsh did not call any games during Weeks 9-12 of the For Week 1 of the 1991 season, Marv Albert substituted as host of On December 18, 1993, the NFL announced new four-year television agreements involving ABC, ESPN, TNT and NFL newcomer On December 17, 1995, NBC was on hand for the final home game for the NBC's rebound in overall ratings in both the 1980s and 1990s (after years of being in the bottom of the ratings cellar) was attributed in part to its continuing coverage of the NFL.