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NBC Sports is the sports division of the NBC television network. Formerly "a service of NBC News " (it was spun off as a standalone operating unit by 1977), it broadcasts a diverse array of programs, including the Olympic Games , the NFL , Notre Dame football , the PGA Tour , the Triple Crown , and the French Open , among others.
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 ...
NBC broadcast the Rose Bowl beginning in 1952 until the 1988 Rose Bowl when ABC took over. It had the Orange Bowl from 1965 through 1995. (The 1971 contest was the very last sporting event on US television to carry cigarette ads.) NBC also aired the Fiesta Bowl from 1978 through 1995, and the Cotton Bowl from 1993 to 1995.
NBC Sports is an American programming division of the broadcast network NBC, owned and operated by the NBC Sports Group division of NBCUniversal and subsidiary of Comcast. The division is responsible for sports broadcasts on the network, and its dedicated national sports cable channels .
[40] [41] NBC Sports Radio was launched that September as a Dial Global/NBC Sports joint venture. [42] NBC Sports Radio ended 24/7 programming at the end of 2018, [42] and was shut down outright in March 2020. [43] Cumulus Media acquired Dial Global in 2013, which reverted to the Westwood One name and was merged into Cumulus Media Networks.
NBC Sports Regional Networks. NBC Sports Bay Area (45%) NBC Sports California; NBC Sports Chicago (20%) NBC Sports Boston; NBC Sports Philadelphia (75%) NBC Sports Philadelphia+; SNY (8%) joint venture with Sterling Equities and Charter Communications; NBC Sports Films; NBC Sports Digital Playmaker Media; Allstar Stats LLC. RotoWorld (Formerly ...
This time, NBC used the Syncom 3 satellite for direct broadcasts, with the opening ceremonies being broadcast live and in color (the first live color television program ever transmitted by satellite from overseas to the United States; the opening and closing ceremonies were the only portions of NBC's 1964 coverage from Tokyo seen in color).
NBC regained the NCAA contract for the 1964 and 1965 seasons. Even after losing the rights to regular season college football in both 1959 and 1965, NBC continued to carry postseason football. NBC carried the Blue–Gray Football Classic , an all-star game, on Christmas Day, until dropping the game in 1963 as a protest of the game's policy of ...