List of televised Notre Dame Fighting Irish football home games prior to 1991
editNBC has an exclusive contract with Notre Dame, which began in 1991. Since that time, NBC has carried nationally all of Notre Dame's home games, paying at least $9 million per season for broadcast rights. Recently, Notre Dame's ratings have been down significantly due to relatively poor play and because NBC does not telecast a game every week as CBS and ABC do (when Notre Dame plays away, NBC has no college football, and thus the network has no set regular schedule); Notre Dame games on NBC drew less than half the ratings that CBS and ABC averaged for their college football games in 2008.[1]
In addition to TV broadcasts, NBC also maintains several dedicated websites to ND football, and Notre Dame Central,[2] which provides complete coverage, full game replays and commentary of the Notre Dame team. NBC's television contract with Notre Dame was renewed in April 2013 and is set to continue through the 2025 football season.[3]
On November 17, 1990, ESPN broadcast the final Irish home game to not be televised by NBC. The Irish played their final home game of the year against Penn State. Ron Franklin, Gary Danielson and Neil Lomax were on the call for ESPN.
1950s
edit| Date | Game | Network | Time (EST) | Play-by-play | Color commentators |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/8/52 | Oklahoma @ Notre Dame | NBC | 2:15 pm | Mel Allen | Bill Henry |
| 10/27/56 | Oklahoma @ Notre Dame | NBC | 2:45 pm | Lindsey Nelson | Red Grange |
| 11/14/59 | Pittsburgh @ Notre Dame | NBC | 1:15 pm |
1960s
edit| Date | Game | Network | Time (EST) | Play-by-play | Color commentators |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/24/66 | Purdue @ Notre Dame | ABC | 2 pm | Chris Schenkel | Bud Wilkinson |
| 10/28/67 | Michigan St @ Notre Dame | ABC | 2:30 pm | Chris Schenkel | Bud Wilkinson |
| 9/28/68 | Purdue @ Notre Dame | ABC | 2 pm (regional) | Chris Schenkel | Bud Wilkinson |
1970s
edit| Date | Game | Network | Time (EST) | Play-by-play | Color commentators |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/2/71 | Michigan St @ Notre Dame | ABC | 1:30 pm (regional) | Chris Schenkel | Bud Wilkinson |
| 10/27/73 | USC @ Notre Dame | ABC | 1:30 pm (regional) | Chris Schenkel | Bud Wilkinson and Duffy Daugherty |
| 11/22/73 | Air Force @ Notre Dame | ABC | 1 pm | Keith Jackson | Lee Grosscup |
| 10/26/74 | Miami @ Notre Dame | ABC | 2 pm (regional) | Keith Jackson | Duffy Daugherty |
| 10/25/75 | USC @ Notre Dame | ABC | 1:30 pm | Keith Jackson | Bud Wilkinson |
| 9/11/76 | Pittsburgh @ Notre Dame | ABC | 4 pm (regional) | Keith Jackson | Ara Parseghian |
| 11/13/76 | Alabama @ Notre Dame | ABC | 12:30 pm (regional) | Chris Schenkel | Ara Parseghian |
| 10/22/77 | USC @ Notre Dame | ABC | 1:30 pm (regional) | Keith Jackson | Frank Broyles |
| 9/23/78 | Michigan @ Notre Dame | ABC | 12:30 pm (regional) | Chris Schenkel | Frank Broyles |
| 10/14/78 | Pittsburgh @ Notre Dame | ABC | 12:30 pm | Keith Jackson | Frank Broyles |
| 10/20/79 | USC @ Notre Dame | ABC | 12:30 pm (regional) | Keith Jackson | Frank Broyles |
1980s and 1990
editReferences
edit- ^ [1] As Notre Dame's TV Money Dwindles, So Too Should Its Independence June 15, 2009
- ^ "MSNBC – Notre Dame Central – Stay Current with Notre Dame Football Scores, Schedule, Match-ups & Breaking News – MSNBC.com Front Page". Nbcsports.msnbc.com. Archived from the original on September 16, 2010.
- ^ Arnold, Keith. "Notre Dame and NBC Sports renew partnership". nbcsports.com. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
External links
edit- Notre Dame Football: Why NBC's Contract with ND Is Detrimental to Both Sides
- Notre Dame Football: Current NBC contract should be the last one
- Notre Dame Breaks Ranks on TV Football Rights
- Talking Deals; What NBC Sees In Notre Dame
- Notre Dame Jumps Ship, Signs With NBC
- NBC BUYS NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL
- NOTRE DAME DEAL WITH NBC STIRS FUROR
- ABC, CFA ALTER TV DEAL IN LIGHT OF NBC-NOTRE DAME ...
- NOW, NOTRE DAME'S GOLDEN SEASON
- Notre Dame Sells Football Games to NBC
Broadcasters of Green Bay Packers home games in Milwaukee
editThe Packers are unique in having their market area cover two media markets, both Green Bay and Milwaukee, and blackout policies for the team apply within both areas, though they rarely come into effect due to strong home attendance and popularity.
As previously mentioned, the Packers' flagship radio station is Milwaukee-based WTMJ-AM (620), with the games airing in Green Bay on WTAQ (1360) and WIXX-FM (101.1).
In situations where Milwaukee Brewers baseball playoff games conflict with Packers games (WTMJ and Good Karma Brands also originate that team's broadcasts as the Brewers Radio Network) in September and October, WTMJ's FM sister station WKTI (94.5) originates the games in Milwaukee, with other stations in the Packers Radio Network making their own determinations about carriage of both games depending on whether they have a sister station to broadcast both games. WTMJ is simulcast on HD Radio over WKTI-HD2, in addition to the main AM signal's HD broadcast. Despite the NFL's Game Pass service nominally restricting WTMJ from streaming PRN coverage over the Internet, the station has streamed the team's games since the 2011 season, outside playoff games, though the streaming has been limited to desktop computers as of the 2015 NFL season due to both the new Game Pass package and TuneIn's premium service holding streaming rights for NFL play-by-play on mobile devices.
Television broadcasters
edit1950s
edit1960s
edit1970s
edit1980s
edit1990s
editList of Monday night National Football League games prior to 1970
editListed below are all professional American football regular season games played on Monday before the start of ABC's weekly Monday Night Football series in 1970.
These include games televised by CBS and NBC on an experimental basis in the late 1960s. The pre-1960s games were on Mondays either as special promotions or due to schedule conflicts. The primary reason that Monday games were much more rare before the 1960s was mainly because artificial lighting was not yet widespread or good enough to provide an acceptable view of the field for a night game, along with being before the advent of color television (hence, for the first few years of night games, a specially painted white football was used), thus requiring that all games be played during the day, when most potential spectators were at work.
1930s
edit1934
- October 22: at Detroit Lions 28, Brooklyn Dodgers 0 [1][2]
1936
- September 28: at Detroit Lions 39, Chicago Cardinals 0 [4][5]
- This game was scheduled for Sunday, postponed due to weather.[5]
1937
- October 4: Chicago Bears 7, at Pittsburgh Pirates 0 [6][7][8]
1938
- October 3: Pittsburgh Pirates 13, at New York Giants 10 [9]
1939
- October 2: Chicago Bears 32, at Pittsburgh Pirates 0 [10]
- November 6: at Brooklyn Dodgers 17, Pittsburgh Pirates 13 [11]
1940s
edit1946
- September 30: at Chicago Cardinals 34, Detroit Lions 14 [14]
- November 11: Chicago Rockets 20, at Miami Seahawks 7 (AAFC) [15]
- November 18: at Miami Seahawks 21, Buffalo Bisons 14 (AAFC) [16]
- November 25: Los Angeles Dons 34, at Miami Seahawks 21 (AAFC) [17]
- December 9: New York Yankees 31, at Miami Seahawks 0 (AAFC) [18]
1947
- September 29: New York Giants 7, at Boston Yanks 7 (Tie)[19]
- September 29: Los Angeles Rams 48, at Pittsburgh Steelers 7 [20]
1948
- October 4: Chicago Bears 28, at Chicago Cardinals 17 [21][22]
1949
- September 26: at Chicago Cardinals 38, Washington Redskins 7 [23][24]
- October 3: Philadelphia Eagles 22, at Detroit Lions 14 [25]
- October 3: Washington Redskins 27, at Pittsburgh Steelers 14 [26][27]
1950s
edit1950
- October 2: at Chicago Cardinals 55, Baltimore Colts 13 [28]
1951
- October 1: New York Giants 13, at Pittsburgh Steelers 13 (Tie)[29][30][31]
- October 8: at Detroit Lions 37, New York Yanks 10 [32][33]
1952
- September 29: Washington Redskins 23, at Chicago Cardinals 7 [34]
1955
- September 26: at Pittsburgh Steelers 14, Chicago Cardinals 7 [35]
1960s
edit1964
- September 28: Green Bay Packers 14, at Detroit Lions 10 [36][37]
- October 12: at Baltimore Colts 47, St. Louis Cardinals 27 [38]
1965
- October 4: at St. Louis Cardinals 20, Dallas Cowboys 13 [39]
1966
- October 31: at St. Louis Cardinals 24, Chicago Bears 17 (CBS-TV)[40]
1967
- October 30: Green Bay Packers 31, at St. Louis Cardinals 23 (CBS-TV)[41]
1968
- September 9: Kansas City Chiefs 26, at Houston Oilers 21 (AFL) (NBC-TV)[42]
- September 16: Los Angeles Rams 24, at St. Louis Cardinals 13 (CBS-TV)[43]
- October 28: Green Bay Packers 28, at Dallas Cowboys 17 (CBS-TV)[44]
1969
- October 13: at Baltimore Colts 24, Philadelphia Eagles 20 [45]
- October 20: at New York Jets 26, Houston Oilers 17 (AFL)[46]
- October 27: at Dallas Cowboys 25, New York Giants 3 (CBS-TV)[47]
References
edit- ^ "Detroit Lions win". Pittsburgh Press. October 23, 1934. p. 25.
- ^ a b "Lions easily down Brooklyn Dodgers". Ludington Daily News. (Michigan). Associated Press. October 23, 1934. p. 2.
- ^ "Game postponed". Milwaukee Journal. Associated Press. October 22, 1934. p. 4, part 2.
- ^ "Lions devour Cards, 39 to 0". Milwaukee Journal. September 29, 1936. p. 8, part 2.
- ^ a b "Detroit Lions win 39 to 0 victory". Ludington Daily News. (Michigan). Associated Press. September 29, 1936. p. 8.
- ^ Burcky, Claire M. (October 4, 1937). "Pirates, Bears battle tonight". Pittsburgh Press. p. 26.
- ^ Burcky, Claire M. (October 5, 1937). "Bears get aid in win". Pittsburgh Press. p. 28.
- ^ "Bears defeat Pirates, 7 to 0". Milwaukee Journal. Associated Press. October 5, 1937. p. 3, part 2.
- ^ "Dodgers next for revived Bucs". Pittsburgh Press. October 4, 1938. p. 23.
- ^ Burcky, Claire M. (October 3, 1939). "Blood resigns as Pirate pro coach". Pittsburgh Press. p. 25.
- ^ "Parker jinx again routs pro Pirates". Pittsburgh Press. November 7, 1939. p. 25.
- ^ "Bucs-Brooklyn to play tonight". Pittsburgh Press. November 6, 1939. p. 22.
- ^ "Lions stage an upset by defeating Giants". Owosso Argus-Press. (Michigan). Associated Press. November 6, 1939. p. 6.
- ^ "Chicago Cardinals beat Detroit, 34-14". Milwaukee Journal. Associated Press. October 1, 1946. p. 9, part 2.
- ^ "Rockets top Hawks, 20-7". St. Petersburg Times. (Florida). Associated Press. November 12, 1946. p. 14.
- ^ "Seahawks top Bisons again". St. Petersburg Times. (Florida). United Press. November 19, 1946. p. 10.
- ^ "Dons beat Hawks 34-21". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). United Press. November 26, 1946. p. 9.
- ^ "Yanks swamp 'Hawks, 31-0". St. Petersburg Times. (Florida). Associated Press. December 10, 1946. p. 10.
- ^ "Boston Yanks, Giants battle to 7-7 deadlock". St. Petersburg Times. (Florida). Associated Press. September 30, 1947. p. 15.
- ^ Les Biederman, Les (September 30, 1947). "Steelers set 'record' in 48-7 defeat". Pittsburgh Press. p. 25.
- ^ Kuechele, Oliver E. (October 5, 1948). "Chicago Bears roll over Cards before turnout of 52,765 fans". Milwaukee Journal. p. 9, part 2.
- ^ "Chicago Bears trip Cardinal team". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). United Press. October 5, 1948. p. 18.
- ^ "Tripp, Harder run wild as Cards win". Pittsburgh Press. United Press. September 27, 1949. p. 29.
- ^ Kuechele, Oliver E. (September 27, 1949). "Cardinals roll over Redskins with display of power, 38-7". Milwaukee Journal. p. 9, part 2.
- ^ "'Van Buren sets record, Eagles win". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. October 4, 1949. p. 14.
- ^ Sell, Jack (October 4, 1949). "'Skins rally beats Steelers, 27 to 14". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 14.
- ^ Biederman, Les (October 4, 1949). "Baugh's aerials defeat Steelers, 27-14". Pittsburgh Press. p. 27.
- ^ "Chicago Cards trounce Baltimore Colts, 55-13". Milwaukee Journal. Associated Press. October 3, 1950. p. 8, part 2.
- ^ Sell, Jack (October 2, 1951). "Steelers, Giants tie, 13-13, in NL opener". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 16.
- ^ "Steelers battle Giants to 13-13 tied in opener". Milwaukee Journal. Associated Press. October 2, 1951. p. 6, part 2.
- ^ Livingston, Pat (October 2, 1951). "Rought, tough Steelers please fans in 13-13 tie". Pittsburgh Press. p. 33.
- ^ "Lions crush grid Yanks, 37-10". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. October 9, 1951. p. 18.
- ^ "Lions take lead in NFL's National loop". Pittsburgh Press. United Press. October 9, 1951. p. 34.
- ^ "Baugh put out of game; Redskins win". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. September 30, 1952. p. 16.
- ^ Sell, Jack (September 27, 1955). "Steelers beat Cardinals in last minute, 14-7". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 18.
- ^ Lea, Bud (September 28, 1964). "54,000 to see Pack, Lions". Milwaukee Sentinel. p. 3, part 2.
- ^ Lea, Bud (September 29, 1964). "Packers whip stubborn Lions". Milwaukee Sentinel. p. 2, part 2.
- ^ "Colts pin 47-27 loss on Cards grab lead". Milwaukee Sentinel. UPI. October 13, 1964. p. 2, part 2.
- ^ "Cards beat Dallas for 4 way tie". Milwaukee Sentinel. UPI. October 5, 1965. p. 2, part 2.
- ^ "Roland stars as Cards shackle Bears, 24-17". Milwaukee Sentinel. UPI. November 1, 1966. p. 1, part 2.
- ^ Lea, Bud (October 31, 1967). "Rookie sparks 31-23 Packer win". Milwaukee Sentinel. p. 1, part 2.
- ^ "Chiefs hold off Oilers, win, 26-21". Milwaukee Sentinel. Associated Press. September 10, 1968. p. 1, part 2.
- ^ "Smith's long run helps Rams win". Milwaukee Sentinel. Associated Press. September 17, 1968. p. 1, part 2.
- ^ Lea, Bud (October 29, 1968). "Packers win, 28-17, tie for 1st". Milwaukee Sentinel. p. 1, part 2.
- ^ "Colts unimpressive in 24-20 triumph". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. October 14, 1969. p. 3C.
- ^ "No. 13 bad omen to Jet opponents". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. October 21, 1969. p. 2B.
- ^ Freeman, Denne H. (October 28, 1969). "Dallas' Doomsday Defense decks, dejects N.Y." Reading Eagle. (Pennsylvania). Associated Press. p. 26.