Curated playlist
NFL broadcasts
- 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…
- 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 Prime VideoNFL on Prime Video is the brand Amazon uses for its National Football League broadcasts, and it began with a price tag that made the industry take notice. In April 2017, Amazon paid $50 million for streaming rights to 10 Thursday Night…
- NFL on Westwood One SportsNFL on Westwood One Sports is the name that American radio listeners hear when they tune in for live national NFL coverage, but the story behind that brand stretches back through multiple corporate owners, a decades-long partnership with…
- 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…
- ManningcastOn the 13th of September 2021, the Manningcast aired for the first time. The game on the field that night featured the Las Vegas Raiders against the Baltimore Ravens. On ESPN2, brothers Peyton and Eli Manning hosted an alternate…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…