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By the 1979–1980 season, the network's NBA ratings had bottomed, with a regular season rating for the broadcasts at 6.4.By this time, the network had eliminated its regional coverage and only used two play-by-play announcers (Brent Musburger and Gary Bender) and three color commentators (Bill Russell and Rod Hundley, who teamed with Musburger and Rick Barry, who teamed with Bender); CBS felt ...
Popular belief holds that the peak era of the NBA on CBS occurred from 1984 to 1987. During this period, CBS' NBA coverage was the beneficiary of a new era in the league that would forever link two of the game's greatest players, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
Television broadcasting started around the 1950s and has continued to grow and become more sophisticated. When the National Basketball Association broadcasts first aired, they were broken down into four categories including; pre game, halftime, post game, and game coverage.
Pages in category "1980s American sports television series" The following 117 pages are in this category, out of 117 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This table displays the top-rated primetime television series of the 1980–81 season as measured by Nielsen Media Research. [1] Rank Program ... CBS: 18.6 References
Up until the 1970–71 season, ABC often aired NBA games as segments of its popular ABC's Wide World of Sports anthology series rather than standalone broadcasts. CBS took over national rights from ABC in 1973. The late 1970s and early 1980s was notoriously known as the "tape delay playoff era".
At ESPN, he anchored the show SportsCenter and did play-by-play for early NBA games. On MSG, Gumbel served as a backup announcer for Marv Albert on New York Knicks broadcasts as well as providing coverage for college basketball. In addition to his MSG duties, he was the host of the first radio morning show on radio station WFAN.
During CBS' first few years of covering the NBA, CBS was accused of mishandling their NBA telecasts. [10] [11] [12] Among the criticisms included CBS playing too much loud music, the lack of stability with the announcers, [13] regionalizing telecasts (thus fragmenting the ratings even further), billing games as being between star players [14] instead of teams, and devoting too much attention ...