Curated playlist
2000s American sports television series
- NFL on ESPNIn 1980, the first NFL draft aired on ESPN from Bristol, Connecticut. Bob Ley hosted the initial coverage while Howard Balzer and Vince Papale joined him as studio analysts. Joe Thomas stood at the New York City site with four other…
- NBA on ESPNNBA on ESPN launched on the 30th of January 1982, when the NBA reached a two-year deal with a three-year-old cable network. The deal gave ESPN rights to 40 regular season games and 10 playoff games. Those early Sunday broadcasts were a…
- NBA on ABCNBA on ABC has carried professional basketball into American living rooms since the 3rd of January 1965, when a game between the Boston Celtics and Cincinnati Royals became the network's first NBA telecast. At that moment, the NBA was a…
- NFL on FoxNFL on Fox launched on the 12th of August 1994, with a preseason game between the Denver Broncos and the San Francisco 49ers at Candlestick Park. At that moment, a network that most of the industry still thought of as "the one that has…
- NFL on CBSNFL on CBS first aired on the 30th of September 1956, with a game between the Washington Redskins and the Pittsburgh Steelers. At that moment, professional football on national television was still a fragile experiment. The DuMont…
- Thursday Night FootballOn the 23rd of November 2006, the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Denver Broncos 19, 10 in a game that marked the debut of Thursday Night Football. This broadcast was part of NFL Network's Run to the Playoffs package, which included eight…
- Monday Night FootballMonday Night Football kicked off its first broadcast on the 21st of September 1970, on ABC, and within a few years it had become one of the highest-rated programs on American television. Here was a league that had spent decades fighting…
- NBC Sunday Night FootballNBC Sunday Night Football launched on the 6th of August 2006 with the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, and within five years it had done something no sports broadcast had managed before. For eight consecutive seasons starting in 2004,…
- NFL on NBCNFL on NBC holds a distinction few broadcasting franchises can claim: it is the longest-running American television show. On the 22nd of October 1939, a New York City station then known as W2XBS pointed its cameras at a game between the…
- NFL on ABCThe American Broadcasting Company began televising professional football in 1948 with a "game of the week" format. That same year, ABC broadcast the NFL Championship Game between the Chicago Cardinals and Philadelphia Eagles. Harry Wismer…