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The Falcons were trying to improve upon their 9–7 record in 1978 and make it to the playoffs for the second time in team history, their first appearance being the year before. Rookie fullback William Andrews rushed for 167 yards in a 40–34 overtime win over the Saints in the season opener in New Orleans.
The following is the 1979–80 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1979 through August 1980. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1978–79 ...
Stations in the Mountain time zone that started their network schedule at 8:00 AM would follow the Central and Pacific pattern that year. Some network programs, particularly before 7:00 AM and after 10:00/9:00 AM, were subject to preemption by local affiliate stations in favor of syndicated or locally produced programs.
The Falcons appeared in two Super Bowl championships—Super Bowl XXXIII and Super Bowl LI—losing to the Denver Broncos and the New England Patriots, respectively. The Falcons have won the NFC Championship twice and a division title six times, winning the NFC West twice (1978 and 1998) and the NFC South four times (2004, 2010, 2012 and 2016 ...
KSD-TV, NBC affiliate in St. Louis, changes its call sign to KSDK-TV. September 7 ESPN, an all-sports channel, launches and becomes the first cable TV channel to be launched as a 24-hour channel. September 9 KNXV-TV goes on the air for the first time as Phoenix's first UHF station, airing with ONTV.
The Week 15 "Monday Night Football" game between the Atlanta Falcons and Las Vegas Raiders will be broadcast on ESPN at 8:30 p.m. ET. How to stream Atlanta Falcons vs. Las Vegas Raiders for free
The combined 1990 contracts with ABC, CBS, ESPN, NBC, and TNT totaled $3.6 billion ($900 million per year), the largest in TV history. One major factor in the increased rights fee was that the league changed the regular season so that all teams would play their 16-game schedule over a 17-week period.
In the Atlanta area, any TNT game involving the Falcons was simulcast on co-owned WTBS channel 17, which is the local version of TBS. ESPN anchor Chris Berman referred to TNT's football programming by its original "Nitro" brand, [ 2 ] even after TNT abandoned that moniker.