Curated playlist
2020s American sports television series
- NFL Network Exclusive Game SeriesA 1961 law keeps NFL Network's Saturday games clustered late in the season.
- NFL on ESPNThe NFL let ESPN air its 1980 draft despite doubts anyone would watch. ESPN reached just 4 million homes then.
- NBA on ESPNESPN's first NBA deal in 1982 ended after only two seasons. Nearly two decades passed before the league returned.
- NBA on ABCABC first broadcast NBA games in 1965 for only $650,000 a year. Baseball's NBC deal was worth $16.5 million in 1969.
- NFL on FoxFox, then known for cartoons, took NFL football away from CBS. CBS had held the NFC for nearly four decades.
- NFL on Prime VideoAmazon aired an NFL game in 2020 that no national broadcast network carried. It averaged 4.8 million viewers.
- NFL on CBSCBS interrupted an NFL playoff game to show Apollo 8 live on its way to the Moon. It got approximately 3,000 complaints.
- Thursday Night FootballThursday Night Football began in 2006 on a channel most viewers could not get.
- Monday Night FootballMillions of Americans first heard that John Lennon had been shot during a Monday Night Football game.
- ManningcastThe Manningcast is ESPN2's alternate Monday Night Football show hosted by Peyton and Eli Manning.
- NBC Sunday Night FootballNBC's Sunday Night Football topped American Idol as network TV's most-watched show in 2011-12.
- NFL on NBCNBC once cut away from a close football game to air the film Heidi.
- NFL on ABCThe NFL on ABC once carried news that had nothing to do with football. During a game between the Miami Dolphins and the New England Patriots on the 8th of December 1980, announcer Howard Cosell told the audience that former Beatle John…
- Ted LassoTed Lasso is a television comedy-drama about an American college football coach from Kansas City, Missouri, who is asked to run an English soccer team. He has never coached the sport. Many around the club doubt him, and the person who…