“NBC College Football Game of the Week”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

The NBC College Football Game of the Week refers to nationally televised broadcasts of Saturday afternoon college football games that were produced by NBC Sports, the sports division of the NBC television network in the United States. Bowl games were always exempt from the NCAA's television regulations, and the games' organizers were free to sign rights deals with any network. In NBC's case, the 1952 Rose Bowl at the end of that particular season was the first national telecast of a college bowl game.^[1]

Background

NBC first televised college football on September 30, 1939. NBC broadcast the game between Waynesburg and Fordham on station W2XBS (which would eventually become NBC's flagship station, WNBC) with one camera and Bill Stern^[2] was the sole announcer. Estimates are that the broadcast reached approximately 1,000 television sets.^[3] Twelve years later, the first live regular season college football game to be broadcast coast-to-coast aired on NBC.^[4]^[5] The game in question, was Duke at the University of Pittsburgh on September 29, 1951.

Pretty soon on June 6,^[6] 1952, NBC Head of Sport Tom Gallery^[7] led negotiations towards a one-year^[8] football contract^[9] (for $1,144,000^[10]) with the NCAA. The contract incidentally came about after the 1951 NCAA convention voted 161-7 to outlaw televised games except for those licensed by the NCAA staff. The deal^[11] allowed NBC to select one game a week^[12] to broadcast on Saturday afternoons, with the assurance that no other NCAA college football broadcast would appear on a competitive network. In the first college football game to be broadcast under this new NCAA television contract, on September 20, Kansas defeated TCU 13–0.

By 1953, the NCAA allowed NBC to add what it called "panorama" coverage of multiple regional broadcasts for certain weeks – shifting national viewers to the most interesting game during its telecast.^[13] After NBC lost its college football contract following the 1953 season, they carried Canadian football in 1954. NBC regained college football rights in 1955 and aired games through the 1957 season.

Even after dropping regular season college football, NBC continued to carry postseason football. NBC carried the Blue–Gray Football Classic, an all-star game, on Christmas Day, until dropping the game in 1963 as a protest of the game's policy of segregation.^[14] It consistently served as the Rose Bowl's television home until 1988 and added the Sugar Bowl from 1958 to 1969 (which replaced the network's coverage of the Cotton Bowl Classic).

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References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Rose Bowl Game History — KTLA |url=http://ktla.trb.com/extras/ktla/roseparade2008/history-game.html |accessdate=2008-05-28 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080308175150/http://ktla.trb.com/extras/ktla/roseparade2008/history-game.html |archivedate=2008-03-08 |deadurl=yes |df= }}
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.jimramsburg.com/bill-stern.html|title=BILL STERN (Audio) - Gold Time Radio - Jim Ramsburg|last= |first= |date= |website=Jim Ramsburg|publisher= |access-date= |quote=}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.americansportscastersonline.com/waynesbergarticle.html|publisher=American Sportscasters Online|title=First televised football game, Waynesberg vs Fordham, 1939|accessdate=February 11, 2011}}
4. ^{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MqLdmm6zT8YC&lpg=PA50%5C&ots=owIESUpRKR&pg=PA50 | editor-first=Paul M. | editor-last=Pedersen | editor2-first=Janet B. | editor2-last=Parks | editor3-first=Jerome | editor3-last=Quarterman | editor4-first=Lucie | editor4-last=Thibault | title=Contemporary Sport Management | edition=4th | publisher=Human Kinetics | location=Champaign, Illinois | year=2011 | page=50 | ISBN=978-0-7360-8167-2 | accessdate=2012-03-25}}
5. ^{{cite book |last=Watterson|first=John Sayle|date= |title=College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KFDCUPCIU7kC&pg=PA270&lpg=PA270&dq=1952+NBC+college+football&source=bl&ots=mU6q7eHYgr&sig=qKglHVFup_7qYBlwClZknZ2fjoM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjXzIGbkdHVAhXIw1QKHfKyBLsQ6AEIPDAC#v=onepage&q=1952%20NBC%20college%20football&f=false|location= |publisher= |page=270|isbn= |author-link= }}
6. ^{{cite news |last=Branch|first=Taylor|date=October 2011|title=The Shame of College Sports|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-shame-of-college-sports/308643/|work=The Atlantic|location= |access-date= }}
7. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.nbcsports.com/our-history#decade_3|title=NBC acquires rights to NCAA football|last= |first= |date= |website=NBC Sports History Page|publisher= |access-date= |quote=}}
8. ^{{cite news |last=Weber|first=Bruce|date=May 27, 2015|title=Walter Byers, Ex-N.C.A.A. Leader Who Rued Corruption, Dies at 93|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/sports/walter-byers-ex-ncaa-leader-who-rued-corruption-dies-at-93.html|work=New York Times|location= |access-date= }}
9. ^{{cite book |last=Fleisher|first=Arthur A.|date=53|title=The National Collegiate Athletic Association: A Study in Cartel Behavior|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cmv5YNVTVCYC&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=1952+NBC+college+football&source=bl&ots=z6dyZOu6Jd&sig=GFIpdmP6oXbyIOSSRWA6hjHIONc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjXzIGbkdHVAhXIw1QKHfKyBLsQ6AEIRTAF#v=onepage&q=1952%20NBC%20college%20football&f=false|location= |publisher= |page= |isbn= |author-link= }}
10. ^{{cite book |last=Zimbalist|first=Andrew|date= |title=Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K2RT_O9cVL0C&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&dq=1952+NBC+college+football&source=bl&ots=qR1fHOhpQa&sig=8mLNBFWrVUZ8RITlUNKlBQ2Oom8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjXzIGbkdHVAhXIw1QKHfKyBLsQ6AEIPzAD#v=onepage&q=1952%20NBC%20college%20football&f=false|location= |publisher= |page=94|isbn= |author-link= }}
11. ^{{cite news |last=Wolters|first=Larry|date=June 12, 1952|title=June 12, 1952 - TELEVISION NEWS AND VIEWS|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1952/06/12/page/98/article/television-news-and-views|work=Chicago Tribune|location= |access-date= }}
12. ^{{cite book |last=Byers|first=Walter|date= |title=Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Exploiting College Athletes|jstor=10.3998/mpub.14486|location= |publisher= |pages=79–96|isbn= |author-link= }}
13. ^{{Cite journal| title = Why Football on TV is Limited | journal = Look | date = October 20, 1953 | postscript = (The "primary purpose is to reduce the impact of the television upon game attendance")}}
14. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11415752/bluegray_telecast_is_killed/ |title=Blue-Gray Telecast Is Killed |agency=UPI |newspaper=The Anniston Star |location=Anniston, Alabama |date=November 9, 1963 |accessdate=June 1, 2017 |via=newspapers.com}}