NFL on CBS
| The NFL on CBS | |
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NFL on CBS logo used beginning with the network's broadcast of Super Bowl 50 on February 7, 2016.
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| Genre | Football telecasts |
| Presented by |
The NFL Today crew NFL on CBS game commentators |
| Opening theme | See NFL on CBS music |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 54 |
| No. of episodes | 5,000+ |
| Production | |
| Location(s) |
Various NFL stadiums (game telecasts and playoff pregame/postgame shows) CBS Broadcast Center, New York City (studio segments, pregame and postgame shows) |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 210 minutes or until game ends |
| Production company(s) |
National Football League CBS Sports |
| Release | |
| Original network |
CBS NFL Sunday Ticket |
| Picture format |
480i (4:3 SDTV) (1956–1994 and 1998–2013), 480i (16:9 SDTV) (2013–present), 1080i (HDTV) (2004–present) |
| Original release |
Original run: September 30, 1956 –
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| Chronology | |
| Related shows | The NFL Today |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The NFL on CBS is the branding used for broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games that are produced by CBS Sports, the sports division of the CBS television network in the United States. The network has aired NFL game telecasts since 1956 (with exception of a break from 1994 to 1997). Since 2014, CBS has also broadcast Thursday Night Football games during the first half of the NFL season, through a production partnership with the NFL Network.
CBS' coverage began on September 30, 1956 (the first regular season broadcast was a game between the visiting Washington Redskins against the Pittsburgh Steelers), before the 1970 AFL–NFL merger. Prior to 1968, CBS had an assigned crew for each NFL team. As an result, CBS became the first network to broadcast some NFL regular season games to selected television markets across the country. From 1970 until the end of the 1993 season, when Fox won the broadcast television contract to that particular conference, CBS aired NFL games from the National Football Conference. Since 1975, game coverage has been preceded by pre-game show The NFL Today, which features game previews, extensive analysis and interviews.
CBS's first attempts to broadcast the NFL on television were notable for there being no broadcasting contract with the league as a whole. Instead, CBS had to strike deals with individual teams to broadcast games into the teams' own markets, many of which were inherited from the defunct DuMont Television Network. Often the games would be broadcast with "split audio" – that is, a game between two franchises would have the same picture in both teams' "networks" (the visiting team's home city and affiliates of the home team's "network" beyond a 75-mile radius of the home team's television market). Each team's "network" had different announcers (usually those working in their home markets).
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