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When the Bowl Championship Series was
formed in 1998, television coverage was consolidated on the
ABC Television Network.
Beginning with the 2006 season, the Fox Broadcasting Company took
over television coverage of the Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl, and
Fiesta Bowl games. ABC retained the Rose Bowl game under a separate
contract.[1]
Radio broadcast coverage has
been on ESPN radio.
Television
From 1999 to 2006 (1998-2005 seasons), all games of the BCS were
televised by ABC
Sports. Generally, coverage consisted of two games on New Year's Day,
one on January 2, and one on either January 3 or 4. ABC paid nearly
$25 million per year for the broadcast rights to the Fiesta, Sugar
and Orange bowls during that time.[1][2]
Overall, the contract was worth $550 million over the eight years
for all the bowl games.[3]
Starting with the 2006 season, coverage will be split between
ABC and Fox. Fox will pay each bowl
game $20 million.[4] Four of
the BCS bowl games will be on FOX: the Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, and a new fifth game, the BCS National Championship
Game. ABC will continue to broadcast the Rose Bowl Game.
ABC has a $300 million eight-year contract that extends to 2014 for
the broadcast rights for the Rose Bowl.[3]
In 2007, ABC and Fox showed one game each on January 1, Fox then
showed one game each on January 2 and 3 and came back with the
championship game on January 8. A similar schedule is planned for
future years.
FOX will show all BCS championship games the first three years
of the contract, while in 2010 the Rose Bowl stadium will be the
location of the BCS Championship game, and ABC will televise
it.
2009-10
announcers
2008-09
announcers
2007-08
announcers
From Fox Sports, December 4, 2007.[5]
2006-07
announcers
Previous
seasons
In 1999, 2002, 2003, and 2006, Keith Jackson was the play-by-play
announcer for the National Championship, with Bob Griese in '99, Dan Fouts in '03 and '06, and Tim Brant in '02. Brent Musburger
and Gary
Danielson were the announcers for the 2000 and 2004 title
games, while Brad
Nessler and Griese called the 2001 and 2005 title games.
Other ESPN/ABC announcers who called the various BCS games
during its eight-year run included Mike Tirico, Sean McDonough, Ed Cunningham, Kirk Herbstreit, Bob Davie, David Norrie, Terry Bowden, and Dean Blevins.
Sideline reporters primarily included Lynn Swann, Todd Harris, and Jack Arute.
Radio
ESPN Radio provides
coverage of all five games. Usually, the announcers called games on
television throughout the regular season. For example, Ron Franklin and
Davie called the 2006 Rose Bowl for the network, and Holly Rowe was the
sideline reporter.
2009-10
announcers
2008-09
announcers
2007-08
announcers
2006-07
announcers
Relationship between
co-holders
FOX currently is not permitting ESPN to re-broadcast BCS game
highlights. For example, despite both the historic nature of the 2007 BCS championship
game (Florida's win gave it
simultaneous Division
I football and basketball championships, which had
never before been accomplished) and the compelling 2007 Fiesta
Bowl, Fox would not allow ESPN Classic (a sister network to rights
co-holder ESPN) to show the games as "instant classics." Instead,
Fox Sports Net
aired both games as hour-long versions of The Best Damn Sports Show
Period later in January.
Similarly, some ESPN programs were not allowed to show
highlights of any of Fox's BCS games, at least not some days
removed from them. For example, when Ted Ginn, Jr. was the subject of "happy
trails" during an episode of Pardon the Interruption
that aired in mid-February, the show's producers could only show still photographs from
the contest, not even clips of his opening kickoff runback for a
touchdown (Ginn, Jr. had announced that he was entering the NFL Draft). Also,
videotape of the same game was missing from ESPN's coverage of the
Gators' repeat championship win in the basketball
tournament later that year. However, it is unknown if ESPN or
its other channels had sought to air footage from the BCS title
game.
However, footage did appear on ESPN's ESPY Awards that July and again on the
SportsCenter specials "Year in
Review" and "Top 10 Games" in December.
In 2008, the relationship between the Rose Bowl and the BCS was
downplayed before and during the telecast. Pre-game promotional
announcements that aired on ESPN, ESPN2, and ABC did not mention
the BCS in any way. During the USC-Illinois game, the logo was not
displayed and the announcers did not mention on-air that the game
was part of the series. As for footage, Fox did consent to share
highlights with ESPN, but those that aired on discussion shows like
First
Take contained the continuous label "COURTESY Fox SPORTS."
Those on SportsCenter did not carry the label.
Plans for long-term use remain unclear. However, ESPN will hold
exclusive rights to all BCS products (including footage and
internet) starting with the 2011 edition.
References
- ^ a
b
ABC Pulls Its BCS Bowl
Bid. NCAA Sports, November 20, 2004
- ^ Michael Hiestand -
Fox to announce deal to air
Fiesta, Orange, Sugar bowls in 06. USA Today, November 21,
2004
- ^ a
b
Keith Dunnavant - The Muddle In The BCS Huddle:
Will a deal to expand the Bowl Championship Series get sacked by
TV? BusinessWeek, OCTOBER 4, 2004
- ^
Steven Zeitchik - Fox faces BCS contract
challenges. The Hollywood Reporter, December 28, 2007
- ^
Fox Sports Announces BCS
Broadcast Teams BCS ON Fox - 2008, December 4, 2007
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