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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.
On July 1, 2022, NBC Sports announced that Olympic Channel would shut down as a linear channel on September 30, 2022. [43] [44] On August 18, 2022, NBC Sports announced a seven-year deal to carry Big Ten Conference college athletics across its platforms beginning in the 2023–24 academic season. This contract will most notably include a new ...
1985 – NBC $61 million, ABC $75 million, total $136 million. Note: The networks got $9 million when Major League Baseball expanded the League Championship Series from a best-of-five to a best-of-seven in 1985. 1986 – NBC $75 million, ABC $66 million, total $141 million. 1987 – NBC $81 million, ABC $90 million, total $171 million.
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 ...
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 ...
[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 also aired the Gator Bowl in 1949 and again from 1969 through 1971 and 1996 through 2006, the Sugar Bowl from 1958 through 1969, the Sun Bowl in 1964 and again in 1966, the Fiesta Bowl from 1978 through 1995, the Citrus Bowl from 1984 through 1985, the Hall of Fame Bowl from 1988 through 1992, and the Cotton Bowl [1] [2] [3] from 1993 to 1995.