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Since the 2024 season, ABC's flagship broadcast is the SEC's top football package, which is branded on-air as the SEC on ABC with its own distinct on-air presentation; the SEC on ABC consists primarily of 3:30 p.m. ET games featuring SEC teams (succeeding the previous SEC on CBS), as well as selected Saturday Night Football telecasts.
ABC Sports. 1] [2] [3] Note: From 1978 through 1983, ABC broadcast Division I-AA games on select weekends with local sportscasting crews – those are not reflected ...
ESPN on ABC (formerly known as ABC Sports from 1961 to 2006) is the branding used for sports event and documentary programming televised by ABC in the United States. . Officially, the broadcast network retains its own sports division; however, in 2006, ABC's sports division was merged into ESPN Inc., which is the parent subsidiary of the cable sports network ESPN that is majority owned by ABC ...
ABC began airing a weekly Saturday night primetime football game in the fall of 2006, when the network's sports division converted to ESPN on ABC. Nearly all regional ABC games that air on a given Saturday (and a very large number of other, exclusive games) are also available as part of a pay-per-view package called ESPN GamePlan , and online ...
Shared with co-produced with ABC Sports from 1982 to 1994, then with NBC Sports from 1995 to 2014. Full broadcast rights acquired by Fox Sports in 2015. [85] [230] [231] The Open Championship: ABC ESPN 1983–2002, 2010–2015: Cable rights; shared with and co-produced by ABC Sports. Cable rights moved to Turner Sports in 2003.
In addition, Arledge realized that the broadcasts needed to attract, and hold the attention of women viewers. At age 29 on September 17, 1960, he put his vision into reality with ABC's first NCAA college football broadcast from Birmingham, Alabama, between Alabama Crimson Tide and the Georgia Bulldogs won by Alabama, 21–6.
ABC has been airing college football since acquiring the NCAA contract in 1966. Chris Schenkel and Bud Wilkinson were the number one broadcast team through 1973. Keith Jackson, its best-known college football play-by-play man, announced games from 1966 through 2005 on ABC (and for 14 years before that for various outlets), and was considered by many to be "the voice of college football."
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.