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List of sports television broadcast contracts. ... Print/export Download as PDF ... National Football League; Association football
Satellite trucks broadcasting from Super Bowl XXXV.National Football League broadcasts are among the most-watched programs on American television. The television rights to broadcast National Football League (NFL) games in the United States are the most lucrative and expensive rights of any sport in the world.
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.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Television coverage of the National Football League is the subject of the following articles:
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 ...
On March 13, 2021, the league announced a new agreement with ESPN/ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC that will run from 2023 to 2033, worth over $110B ($10B/year). Among the new changes: [56] [57] One game will exclusively be on Peacock for six seasons. Flexible scheduling will be expanded to include Monday Night Football and Thursday Night Football.
XFL merged with USFL to become the United Football League (UFL); ESPN's XFL broadcast rights absorbed into UFL. [186] [187] [29] Arena football: Arena Football League (AFL) Arena Football League on ESPN: ESPN Association football/Soccer: CONMEBOL: Copa América: ESPN+ 2019: Broadcast rights acquired and moved to Fox Sports beginning with the ...
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.