The NFL on NBC
| NFL on NBC | |
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NFL on NBC logo used since 2006.
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| Genre | NFL game telecasts |
| Presented by |
pre-game show panelists NFL on NBC game commentators |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 58 |
| Production | |
| Location(s) |
Various NFL stadiums (game telecasts) NBC Studios, New York City (studio segments, pre-game and post-game shows) |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 210 minutes or until game ends |
| Production company(s) | NBC Sports |
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| Original network | NBC |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV) (1939–1998 and 2006–present), 1080i (HDTV) (2006–present) |
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| Chronology | |
| Related shows | NBC Sunday Night Football |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
The NFL on NBC is the branding used for broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games that are produced by NBC Sports, and televised on the NBC television network in the United States. The name was used until 1998, when the network lost the television rights to the American Football Conference (AFC) to CBS. NFL coverage returned to NBC on August 6, 2006, under the title NBC Sunday Night Football, beginning with its coverage of the preseason Pro Football Hall of Fame Game. Since NBC acquired the Sunday Night Football package from ESPN, game coverage is usually preceded by the pre-game show Football Night in America.
NBC's coverage of the National Football League (which has aired under numerous program titles and formats) actually goes back to the beginnings of the network's relationship with the league in 1939, when its New York City flagship station, then known as W2XBS (now WNBC) aired the first televised professional football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the now-defunct Brooklyn Dodgers football team. Even before this, in 1934, NBC Radio's Blue Network had carried the Detroit Lions' inaugural Thanksgiving game nationwide.
By 1955, NBC became the television home to the NFL Championship Game, the precursor to the Super Bowl, paying US$100,000 to the league for the rights. The network had taken over the broadcast rights from the DuMont Television Network, which had struggled to give the league a national audience (NBC's coverage of proto-Canadian Football League games from the year prior was more widely available at the time) and was on the brink of failure; the NFL's associations with NBC (as well as with CBS) proved to be a boost to the league's popularity. The 1958 NFL Championship Game, played at Yankee Stadium, between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants went into sudden death overtime. This game, since known as the "Greatest Game Ever Played", was seen by many throughout the country and is credited with increasing the popularity of professional football in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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