NFL on NBC Radio
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From 1985-1986, the NBC Radio Network was the official, national radio provider for National Football League games. The program succeeded (and was itself, ultimately succeeded by) the CBS Radio Network's[1] package.
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[edit] Background
On March 6, 1985, NBC Radio and the National Football League entered into a two year agreement[2] granting NBC the radio rights to a 37-game package in each of the 1985-1986 seasons. The package included 27 regular season games and 10 postseason games.
[edit] Ratings
- See also: Arbitron
In January 1986, NBC Radio figures indicated an audience of 10 million for their coverage Super Bowl XX[3] between the Chicago Bears and New England Patriots.
In 1987, NBC Radio's broadcast of Super Bowl XXI[4] between the New York Giants and Denver Broncos was heard by a record 10.1 million people.
[edit] Announcers
[edit] Play-by-play
- Don Criqui
- Mel Proctor
- Marty Glickman (1985)/Tom Davis (1986)
Besides calling Super Bowls XX and XXI, Don Criqui and Bob Trumpy commentated Monday Night Football games.
[edit] Color commentatary
Bob Trumpy also hosted hosted a national, postgame call-in show called NFL Live. NFL Live would officially become the name of the pregame show for the NFL on NBC television program.
[edit] Thanksgiving Classic
[edit] 1985
- Don Criqui/Bob Trumpy (Detroit vs. New York Jets)
- Mel Proctor/Dave Rowe (Dallas vs. St. Louis Cardinals)
[edit] 1986
- Don Criqui/Bob Trumpy (Detroit vs. Green Bay)
- Mel Proctor/Dave Rowe (Dallas vs. Seattle)
[edit] Playoffs
[edit] 1985-86
[edit] Wild Card playoffs
- Don Criqui/Bob Trumpy (New England vs. New York Jets)
- Mel Proctor/Dave Rowe (New York Giants vs. San Francisco)
[edit] Divisional playoffs
- Marty Glickman/Stan White (Miami vs. Cleveland)
- Mel Proctor/Dave Rowe (Los Angeles Rams vs. Dallas)
- Don Criqui/Bob Trumpy (Chicago vs. New York Giants)
- Mel Proctor/Dave Rowe (New England vs. Los Angeles Raiders)
[edit] Conference Championships
[edit] 1986-1987
[edit] Wild Card playoffs
- Don Criqui/Bob Trumpy (New York Jets vs. Kansas City)
- Mel Proctor/Dave Rowe (Washington vs. Los Angeles Rams)
[edit] Divisional playoffs
- Tom Davis/Stan White (Cleveland vs. New York Jets)
- Mel Proctor/Dave Rowe (Washington vs. Chicago)
- Don Criqui/Bob Trumpy (New York Giants vs. San Francisco)
- Mel Proctor/Dave Rowe (Denver vs. New England)
[edit] Conference Championships
[edit] Prior to 1985
On April 5, 1961, NBC was awarded a two-year contract for radio and television rights to the NFL Championship Game for $615,000 annually, $300,000 of which was to go directly into the NFL Player Benefit Plan.[5]
From the 1966-1976 seasons, NBC Radio alternated with CBS Radio in coverage of the Super Bowl. After sharing coverage of Super Bowl I, NBC Radio would go on to broadcast only odd numbered Super Bowls. Jim Simpson served as the play-by-play man for all of NBC Radio's broadcasts (with the exceptions of Super Bowl III, which was called by Charlie Jones and Super Bowl V, which was called by Jay Randolph) during this era. Simpson, Jones and Randolph were joined on color commentary by George Ratterman (Super Bowls I and III), Pat Summerall (Super Bowl III), Al DeRogatis (Super Bowl V), Kyle Rote (Super Bowl VII), and John Brodie (Super Bowls IX and XI).
For their coverage of Super Bowl III at the end of the 1968 season, NBC used Pat Summerall (best known for his work for CBS and subsequently, FOX) to provide an "NFL prospective" on the coverage. This was due in part to the fact that NBC was at the time, the network television provider of the American Football League (whereas CBS was the network television provider for the pre-merger National Football League). In return, for CBS Radio's coverage of Super Bowls I, II and IV, they used Tom Hedrick, normally the radio voice of the Kansas City Chiefs, to provide an "AFL perspective" for their coverage.
- See also: List of Super Bowl broadcasters
[edit] NBC's NFL Sunday
In 2006, the NBC television network, resumed their National Football League coverage (under the NBC Sunday Night Football umbrella) for the first time since losing the American Football Conference package to CBS after the 1997 season.
Former Philadelphia Phillies play-by-play man Scott Graham hosts an abbreviated radio version of the Football Night in America pregame show called NBC's NFL Sunday, which is co-produced with Westwood One. It airs before that network's coverage of Sunday Night Football. The role was formerly held by Al Trautwig, but Trautwig disappeared from the show midway through the 2006 season for undisclosed reasons. NBC's Cris Collinsworth and/or Jerome Bettis contribute analysis during pre-recorded interview segments.
- See also: NFL_on_Westwood_One#Pregame
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ NFL and CBS Radio jointly announced agreement granting CBS the radio rights to a 40-game package in each of the next three NFL seasons, 1987-89, April 7.
- ^ NBC Radio and the NFL entered into a two-year agreement granting NBC the radio rights to a 37-game package in each of the 1985-86 seasons, March 6. The package included 27 regular-season games and 10 postseason games.
- ^ Chicago defeated New England 46-10 in Super Bowl XX at the Louisiana Superdome, January 26. The Patriots had earned the right to play the Bears by becoming the first wild-card team to win three consecutive games on the road. The NBC telecast replaced the final episode of M*A*S*H as the most-viewed television program in history, with an audience of 127 million viewers, according to A.C. Nielsen figures. In addition to drawing a 48.3 rating and a 70 percent share in the United States, Super Bowl XX was televised to 59 foreign countries and beamed via satellite to the QE II. An estimated 300 million Chinese viewed a tape delay of the game in March. NBC Radio figures indicated an audience of 10 million for the game.
- ^ The New York Giants defeated Denver 39-20 in Super Bowl XXI and captured their first NFL title since 1956. The game, played in Pasadena's Rose Bowl, drew a sellout crowd of 101,063. According to A.C. Nielsen figures, the CBS broadcast of the game was viewed in the U.S. on television by 122.64-million people, making the telecast the second most-watched television show of all-time behind Super Bowl XX. The game was watched live or on tape in 55 foreign countries and NBC Radio's broadcast of the game was heard by a record 10.1 million people.
- ^ NBC was awarded a two-year contract for radio and television rights to the NFL Championship Game for $615,000 annually, $300,000 of which was to go directly into the NFL Player Benefit Plan, April 5.
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