CFL on NBC
CFL on NBC | |
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Country of origin | United States |
Production | |
Running time | 3 hours |
Original release | |
Network | NBCSN (2012–2013) |
Release | 2012 2013 | –
CFL on NBC is a de facto branding for the Canadian Football League (CFL) games that have been carried on American broadcaster NBC or its sports network, NBCSN.
Background
NBC's first attempt (1954)
NBC's first run broadcasting Canadian football involved coverage of a collection of
Between 1955 and 1980, only one game was televised on U.S. television, the
1982 experimentation
NBC (with the exception of its northernmost
- Sept 26
- British Columbia 46 @ Toronto 14 (Don Criqui and John Brodie)
- Calgary 17 @ Edmonton 36 (Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen)
- Oct 3
- Calgary 8 @ Saskatchewan 53 (Don Criqui, John Brodie, and Bob Trumpy)
- Oct 10
- British Columbia 1 @ Edmonton 30 (Charlie Jones, Merlin Olsen, and Mike Haffner)
There were blackouts of the CFL games. The blackouts weren't exactly because of not selling out the stadiums, but for being too close to Canada. For instance NBC's affiliate in Syracuse did not get these games. Their TV listings showed these CFL games on CKWS 11 (CBC Kingston, Ontario), while NBC (WSTM 3) listed “NFL Football New England at Buffalo (if strike settled) or movie” for Sunday, October 3.
A game between featuring the Edmonton Eskimos at the Winnipeg Blue Bombers was tentatively scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday October 17, even making newspaper TV listings. At the last moment NBC cancelled the broadcast. The network was worried that the game would run over its allotted time and conflict with Game 5 of the 1982 World Series, which was supposed to begin at 4:30. NBC did not resume CFL broadcasts afterwards. As previously mentioned, the games it showed had mostly been blowouts and the network even ended its October 3, 1982 broadcast "Heidi Game" style before the game ended in order to not delay prime time programming.
Interim American coverage (1983-2011)
In 2008, when NBCSN was known as Versus and not yet under the same corporate umbrella as NBC, it aired the 96th Grey Cup.
The
NBCSN's coverage (2012-2013)
The package was picked up by NBCSN[8][9] starting on Monday August 27, 2012 with 14 games total broadcast on NBC Sports Network including 9 regular season games (including both Labour Day Classic games) and [10] all of the playoffs and Grey Cup.[11] NBC renewed its deal with the CFL shortly before the 2013 regular season, but the deal scaled back the network's playoff coverage (the network will not air the first round games and will only air the conference finals on tape delay). The 2013 U.S. TV schedule featured 11 regular season games live (including the lone Labour Day Classic contest), three tape-delayed contests in October (including the displaced Toronto-Hamilton Thanksgiving Day Classic, which will air at midnight the Wednesday after), and the Grey Cup live.[12]
In an oddity, NBCSN only owned the traditional television rights to the league, while another network owned the Internet rights; ESPN3 has carried CFL games on the Internet since 2008. (ESPN Inc., ESPN3's parent company, holds a minority stake in TSN.) The CFL granted exclusive broadcast and Internet rights to ESPN in a multinational, five-year deal prior to the 2014 season, ending NBCSN's involvement with the league until at least 2019.
See also
References
- ^ "CFL.ca - Official site of the Canadian Football League".
- ^ "54, 40 or Fight" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 18, 2010. Retrieved February 18, 2011.
- ^ "CFL on NBC". Archived from the original on 2009-10-27. Retrieved 2009-10-27.
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- ^ NFL Network Going Canadian - CFL games begin airing on network July 1 Broadcasting & Cable July 1, 2010
- ^ CFL to air on NFL Network Archived 2014-03-04 at the Wayback Machine CFL Official Site June 30, 2010
- ^ McMillan, Ken (May 25, 2012). No CFL on NFLN, eh?. HudsonValley.com. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
- ^ Fang, Ken (21 July 2012). "CFL Finally Has A US TV Contract; Games Air On NBC Sports Network". Fang's Bites. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
- ^ Bucholtz, Andrew (21 July 2012). "NBC SPORTS NETWORK'S CFL DEAL COULD GIVE IT MORE VALUABLE CONTENT". Awful Announcing. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
- ^ 100th Grey Cup Game to air live in US on NBC Sports Network Archived 2015-10-16 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "100th Grey Cup to air live in U.S. on NBC Sports Network". CFL.ca. Archived from the original on 24 July 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
- ^ "NBC Sports Network to showcase CFL in 2013 | CFL.ca | Official Site of the Canadian Football League". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2017-08-25.