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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 ...
Monday Night Football (often abbreviated as MNF) is the branding used for broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games that air on Monday nights. It originally ran on ABC from 1970 to 2005, before moving exclusively to sister network ESPN from 2006 to 2019.
In February 2022, ABC then aired the yearly NFL Honors awards ceremony. The ceremony is usually aired by the same television network airing the Super Bowl, however NBC, the 2022 Super Bowl broadcaster, was instead airing the 2022 Winter Olympics. [45] On March 5, 2022, ABC aired a special edition of NFL Live, covering the NFL Combine. [46]
In 1948 and 1950, ABC televised the National Football League Championship Game. Harry Wismer [2] provided commentary for the game in 1948 and the game in 1950 joined by Red Grange and Joe Hasel. ABC first broadcast regular season National Football League games in 1953, supplementing the DuMont Television Network's NFL coverage.
The first "ABC Circle" logo, designed by Paul Rand in 1962. In 1962, graphic designer Paul Rand redesigned the ABC logo into its current and best-known form, with the lowercase letters "abc" enclosed in a single black circle. The new logo debuted on-air on October 19 of the same year, but it was not until the following spring that it was fully ...
ABC’s involvement with ESPN’s NFL coverage would expand in the next few years, with the return of the Pro Bowl and the last day of the NFL Draft in 2018, with the latter eventually expanding to all three days in 2019, to go along with NFL Scouting Combine coverage, regular season game simulcasts in 2020, NFL Training Camp coverage in 2021 ...
The "ABC Circle" logo, designed by Paul Rand, was introduced in a 1962 identification card. ABC programming of the 1960s was marked by the rise of family-oriented series in an attempt to counterprogram against its established competitors.
Television ratings in 1980 were the second-best in NFL history, trailing only the combined ratings of the 1976 season. All three networks posted gains, and NBC's 15.0 rating was its best ever. NFL broadcasts on CBS and ABC had their best ratings since 1977, with 15.3 and 20.8 ratings, respectively. In 1981, ABC and CBS set all-time rating highs ...