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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.
1940: The American Federal Communications Commission, (), holds public hearings about television; 1941: First television advertisements aired. The first official, paid television advertisement was broadcast in the United States on July 1, 1941, over New York station WNBT (now WNBC) before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.
[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.
The first telecast of the Olympics on American TV was from the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California.It was shown on CBS.During the games, officials asked Tony Verna, one of the members of the production staff, if it could use its videotape equipment to determine whether or not a slalom skier missed a gate.
NBC Sports is an American programming division of the broadcast network NBC, owned and operated by the NBC Sports Group division of NBCUniversal and subsidiary of Comcast. The division is responsible for sports broadcasts on the network, and its dedicated national sports cable channels .
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
During NBC's last three years as the broadcast television home of the American Football Conference (from the 1995 to 1997 seasons), the pregame show was simply titled The NFL on NBC. [19] The theme music [ 20 ] by Randy Edelman was used for both the pregame show and the network's game coverage.
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.