Primary NFL television stations

A primary, flagship or home television station refers to the local affiliates that carry a majority of the regular season telecasts for a said National Football League (NFL) team. This list only concentrates on television coverage since the AFL–NFL merger in 1970. This list however, does not include "official station" partnerships, where a station that only carries off-network pre-season games also carries team programming throughout the season such as coach's shows, player shows or interview segments during station sportscasts. It also does not include individual player show agreements with stations in a team's market.

As the NFL assigns telecast rights based on the conference affiliation of the road team, the stations listed below would be assigned all of the team's road games (unless they were played at night). They would also carry those home games against teams in the same conference that did not fall under the league's blackout rules. Home games against teams from the other conference, if not blacked out, would be carried on another station. Night games are aired locally either on NBC if Sunday night (or the Thursday Kickoff Game), or on any local station if it is a simulcast of a game on a cable network (as per NFL rules, and subject to blackout; ESPN-aired games are often simulcast on the affiliate of sister network ABC, especially on ABC's O&Os and Hearst Corporation-owned stations—ESPN is an 80/20 joint venture of the Walt Disney Company [ABC's parent] and Hearst).

Note: Teams listed in italics are teams that have since relocated.

American Football Conference

From 1970–1997, NBC held the American Football Conference (AFC) package. Since 1998, CBS has held the AFC package.

Team	Stations	Years	Notes
Baltimore Colts	WBAL 11 (Later CBS, now NBC again) WMAR 2 (Now ABC)	1970–1980 1981–1983	In 1970, when the then-Baltimore Colts moved to the newly formed and realigned American Football Conference as part of the AFL–NFL merger of professional football of 1970, WBAL-TV displaced WMAR-TV (which had aired most of the team's games since 1956) as the station of record for the team (as NBC was the rightsholder for all AFC games). During its first season as such, the station provided coverage of the Colts' victory in Super Bowl V in 1971. This partnership continued until 1981, when WMAR-TV became the team's unofficial home station again for their last three seasons in Baltimore (although the station continued to air Colts games in those three seasons, they were limited to home interconference contests).
Baltimore Ravens	WBAL 11 WJZ 131	1996–1997 1998–present	When the reorganized Baltimore Ravens began play in 1996 after moving the old Cleveland Browns franchise to Maryland, WBAL-TV became the new team's station of record, but only for two seasons; in 1998, most games were moved to WJZ-TV. Presently, WBAL-TV airs any Ravens games when they play on NBC's Sunday Night Football. WJZ-TV has been the de facto broadcaster for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League, airing a majority of the team's contests since CBS acquired rights to the American Football Conference in 1998, including their Super Bowl XXXV and XLVII appearances, both victories, at the end of the 2000 and 2012 seasons.
Buffalo Bills	WGRZ 2 (known as WGR from 1970–1983) WIVB 4 CITY 57 (for Bills Toronto Series)	1970–1997 1998–present 2008–2013	As part of the team's new regional media deal with Nexstar, Buffalo Bills preseason broadcasts moved to WIVB in 2021 (the move was originally scheduled for 2020 before the NFL canceled its 2020 preseason due to COVID-19 concerns). The contract took effect across Nexstar's other stations in the Bills' market in 2018. Beginning with the 2007 NFL season as part of Rogers Media's broadcast rights with the NFL; two late season games were shown by CITY and Vancouver sister station CKVU-TV weekly, the opposite games aired regionally on their respective Sportsnet feed. In 2008, CITY aired the pre-season games of the Buffalo Bills, which included a game played at Rogers Centre as part of the Bills Toronto Series. From 2014 until 2017 (when this portion of the package was acquired by TSN and CTV Two), it also aired Thursday Night Football games in simulcast with CBS.
Cleveland Browns	WKYC 3 WOIO 19	1970–1995 1999–present	With the Cleveland Browns' move to the newly formed American Football Conference after the completion of the AFL-NFL merger of 1970, channel 3, by way of NBC's rights to carry the AFC games, became the station of record for the team, replacing WJW in that role. This partnership would continue through 1995. Since 2006, Browns games are shown on channel 3 when the team plays on NBC's Sunday Night Football, and since 2019, in a simulcast with ESPN when the team plays on Monday Night Football. For many years, the station has also partnered with the Browns to carry preseason games and coach's shows since then, outside of five seasons (including two short-lived season deals with WOIO in 1999 and 2004, the latter of which ended before the 2005 season due to team displeasure with the station's coverage of its ownership). WEWS carried the team's programming and preseason games from 2015 until 2018. The Browns returned to WKYC with the start of the 2019 regular season as part of a deal lasting through the 2021 season. WOIO and the Cleveland Browns entered into a television partnership in April 2005—in effect, resuming an agreement that ended with the original team's 1995 relocation to Baltimore. Replacing former longtime television partner WKYC-TV, WOIO acquired the rights to air all preseason games as well as a preseason draft show, exclusive training camp reports and a Monday night coaches' show. On July 18, 2006, the Browns announced that the team was ending its partnership with WOIO, the result of a controversy over the station's coverage of the drowning of team owner Randy Lerner's six-year-old niece. On its newscasts, WOIO aired a 9-1-1 recording of Nancy Fisher, Lerner's sister, calling for assistance. Although WOIO was within its legal bounds to air the tape and it was public record under Ohio's laws regarding 911 call audio, the Browns thought that it was an unnecessary invasion of the family's privacy. WOIO subsequently filed a lawsuit against the Browns on July 26, 2006, alleging breach of contract and seeking to retain the broadcast rights to Browns games as the agreement had one year left to run. The Browns' contract with WOIO ended on August 1, 2006; two days later. However, WOIO—through CBS' AFC contract—has and continues to air the bulk of the Browns regular season games.
Cincinnati Bengals	WLWT 5 WKRC 12	1970–1997 1998–present	In 1968, when the Cincinnati Bengals were enfranchised by the American Football League, channel 5 became the station of record for the team as Avco acquired broadcast rights to the team's preseason games, which were also distributed to Dayton, Columbus, and Indianapolis. WLWT would also carry most regular-season Bengals games through NBC's contracts with the AFL and the National Football League through the end of the 1997 season, when NBC lost its broadcast rights to the American Football Conference to CBS. In the present-day WLWT airs Bengals games when they are featured on NBC's Sunday Night Football as well as ESPN's Monday Night Football, a benefit of WLWT owner Hearst's 20 percent stake in the sports network.
Denver Broncos	KCNC 4 (known as KOA from 1970–1983)1 KUSA 9	1970–1995 (Week 1 only); 1998–present 1995 (beginning in Week 2)–1997	In 1965, KOA-TV began carrying most of NBC's American Football League game telecasts as the network obtained the league's broadcast television rights (with play-by-play announcing duties handled by Curt Gowdy); however, Denver Broncos home games aired by the network had to be blacked out due to the team's inability to sell out tickets to the games (NFL blackout rules in effect at the time required teams to sell all tickets for home games in order to allow them to be broadcast in the team's primary market; the league later lowered the designated sales threshold to allow home game broadcasts to 75% of all tickets, and as of 2015, the blackout rules have been lifted indefinitely), this partnership continues to this day with CBS (with exception of a hiatus from the second week of the 1995 season to end of the 1997 season, when most games moved to KUSA in that interim period). In 1998, CBS acquired the broadcast rights to the American Football Conference of the National Football League (which absorbed the AFL and the Broncos in 1970), moving the conference's game telecasts to the network from NBC (and with it, from KUSA, which aired most games between the second week of the 1995 season to the end of the 1997 regular season [and Super Bowl XXXII in January 1998, which the Broncos won]); as a result, KCNC regained the local television rights to the Broncos (coinciding with the season in which the team won its second straight Super Bowl championship and fan favorite John Elway played his final season with the Broncos before his retirement from the NFL). Ironically, KCNC would later carry the Broncos' win in Super Bowl 50, the last game of quarterback Peyton Manning before he retired. On the day KUSA joined NBC, it took over KCNC's role as the default home station for the Denver Broncos (who are part of the AFC, which NBC held the broadcast rights to then, channel 4 had aired most Broncos games from 1965 until the 1995 season-opening game a week before the switch), but would only hold this role for only three seasons; however, channel 9 did air the Broncos' first Super Bowl victory in Super Bowl XXXII in 1998 (it also happened to be the last Broncos game aired on the station [and the last NFL game for NBC] for eight years); after this, KCNC, thanks to CBS' acquisition of the AFC broadcast rights, resumed its role as the home station of the team. Since 2006, Broncos games are aired on channel 9 when they are shown on NBC's Sunday Night Football.
Houston Oilers	KPRC 2	1970–1996	Beginning in 1965, the American Football League signed a broadcast deal with NBC. As a result, KPRC-TV became the primary station for regular season games of the Houston Oilers, one of the league's eight founding teams; this continued after the AFL became the American Football Conference of the National Football League in 1970. Local Oilers broadcasts ended after the 1996 NFL season, when the team relocated to Nashville and eventually became the Tennessee Titans, though Oilers games would continue to be prioritized for broadcast during the 1997 season, which also turned out to be the last for NBC as the primary broadcaster of Sunday afternoon AFC games. During the team's final years in Houston, the Oilers failed to sell out many home games, subjecting them to in-market television blackouts under league rules at the time in addition to preemption from radio broadcasts locally.
Houston Texans	KHOU 11	2002–present	Since 2006, the station is also involved with Houston's current NFL team, the Texans (who began play in 2002), in that the station airs games when they are featured on NBC's Sunday Night Football, as well as broadcasting a Sunday morning pregame show during the season on Sunday afternoon game days.
Indianapolis Colts	WTHR 13 WISH 8 (Now CW) WTTV 4	1984–1997 1998–2014 2015–present	From the arrival of the Indianapolis Colts in 1984 until 1997, WTHR (through NBC's rights to AFC games) aired regular season games televised locally with WISH-TV (channel 8) from 1984 until 1993 (for select games televised by CBS in which the Colts play against an NFC opponent), with WRTV—until 2005—carrying non-preseason games via ABC's Monday Night Football on occasions when a game involving the Colts was scheduled. Since 2006, regular season games currently televised over-the-air locally are split between WISH (from 1998 to 2014), and since 2015 WTTV (channel 4, through CBS' rights to the team's AFC affiliation), WXIN (channel 59, for select games televised by Fox in which the Colts play host to an NFC opponent at home since 1994, or since 2014, any games moved from WTTV via the new 'cross-flex' broadcast rules), with WTHR carrying non-preseason games and select Colts NFL games broadcast by NBC as part of the network's Sunday Night Football package. The station also acquired the local rights to two Colts regular season games during the 2013 season between the San Diego Chargers (on October 14, which aired on ESPN's Monday Night Football—whose Colts broadcasts are normally carried over-the-air by WNDY-TV (channel 23)) and the Tennessee Titans (on November 14, which aired on NFL Network's Thursday Night Football). WTHR also provided local coverage of Super Bowl XLVI, which was hosted at Lucas Oil Stadium. In its later years as a CBS affiliate, WISH-TV aired most Indianapolis Colts regular season games as well as any playoff games involving the team through CBS, via the network's broadcast rights to the NFL's American Football Conference. The move of Colts games to WISH-TV when CBS acquired the rights to the AFC in 1998 coincided with the debut of rookie quarterback Peyton Manning, as well as the station's coverage of the Colts' appearances in Super Bowl XLI (a victory) and Super Bowl XLIV. WISH-TV also aired Indiana Pacers games from their absorption into the NBA from 1976 until 1990, through CBS' NBA broadcast contract. The station provided local coverage of the 1987 Pan-American Games, which were held in Indianapolis. As a result of WISH swapping its CBS affiliation with CW affiliate WTTV in January 2015, the station's status as the unofficial "home" station of the Colts ended after the 2014 NFL regular season. Consequently, it no longer aired any Colts related programming after the 2014 season (except for Countdown to Kickoff and possibly Huddle Up Indy), nor were WISH and WNDY affiliated with the Colts. Colts games began to air on WTTV on January 4, 2015, when the Colts defeated the Cincinnati Bengals in the first round of the NFL playoffs. The coach's show and Colts Up Close moved to WTTV and its sister Fox affiliate WXIN (channel 59) for the 2015 NFL season. With the switch to CBS, WTTV became the de facto home station of the Colts, due to CBS' contract to carry a schedule mainly made up of American Football Conference games and Thursday Night Football, and a deal between Tribune Broadcasting and the team making the station and WXIN exclusive broadcast partners. This means both stations air Colts preseason games, team programming and coach's shows; advertising within Lucas Oil Stadium is also included in the deal. Additionally, both stations carried the Super Bowl from 2019 to 2021, with WTTV carrying CBS coverage of Super Bowl LIII, WXIN airing Fox's coverage of Super Bowl LIV and CBS airing Super Bowl LV. (CBS and NBC switched Super Bowl coverage in 2021 and 2022; this was so that NBC would not have to worry about airing the Winter Olympics (which begin nine days before Super Bowl LVI) against CBS' coverage of the Super Bowl. Thus, CBS aired Super Bowl LV in 2021 and NBC will air Super Bowl LVI in 2022.) Between CBS' AFC rights and Fox's NFC rights, the only time the Colts would not play on a Tribune station would be if they were scheduled for an NBC Sunday Night Football telecast, which would air on WTHR, or ESPN's Monday Night Football, which has traditionally aired on WRTV. The first Colts game to air on WTTV as a CBS affiliate was the team's first-round playoff victory over the Cincinnati Bengals on January 4, and it carried two more games in the 2014 NFL season before the Colts lost to the Patriots in the AFC Championship on January 18, 2015. Beginning in 2018, the Thursday Night Football games are aired on WXIN, due to Fox carrying the package as part of a contract lasting through 2022.
Jacksonville Jaguars	WTLV 12 WJXT 4 (Now Independent) WJAX 47 (known as WTEV-TV from 2002–2014)	1995–1997 1998–2001 2002–present	WTLV became the de facto official station of the Jacksonville Jaguars when the NFL team began operations in 1995, by virtue of NBC holding the broadcast rights to the American Football Conference (which the Jaguars are part of). It aired most Jaguars games until 1998, when the team's telecasts moved to WJXT (channel 4) after CBS acquired the broadcast rights to the AFC's regular season and playoff games (most Jaguars games are now televised on WJAX-TV (channel 47), which obtained the CBS affiliation in July 2002). WTLV also aired a weekly television show called Monday Night Live, which aired at 7:00 p.m. every Monday evening during the NFL season, and was hosted by sports director Dan Hicken and John Jurkovic. Today, the station shows Jaguars games when they are on NBC's Sunday Night Football. On April 23, 2002, CBS signed an affiliation agreement with Clear Channel for WTEV-TV to become the new CBS affiliate for the Jacksonville television market. The network's longtime affiliate, WJXT (channel 4), chose not to renew its affiliation agreement with the network after CBS supplied the station's owner, Post-Newsweek Stations (now the Graham Media Group), with a list of demands that included the payment of reverse compensation to the network (instead of receiving payments, as was the case in the past) to continue carrying CBS programming and limiting preemptions of CBS programming to events where breaking news and severe weather coverage necessitate it. WTEV officially became a CBS affiliate on July 15, 2002, with WJXT opting to become an independent station. In addition, this triggered an affiliation switch in Gainesville where WGFL, once a WB affiliate, became a CBS affiliate. At the time, WAWS assumed the UPN affiliation on a secondary basis (airing it on a tape delay from 11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.) and acquired several syndicated sitcoms that WTEV no longer had room on its schedule to air (coincidentally, both CBS and UPN were owned by the original Viacom at the time). WTEV also began carrying most Jacksonville Jaguars regular season games through CBS' broadcast rights to the NFL's American Football Conference division, along with many high-profile college football games through the network's contract with the Southeastern Conference, including the annual Florida–Georgia football rivalry game held at EverBank Field on the first Saturday of November.
Kansas City Chiefs	WDAF 4 (Now Fox) KSHB 41 KCTV 5	1970–Week 2 of 1994 season Week 3 of 1994 season–1997 1998–present	WDAF-TV began serving as the unofficial "home" television station of the Kansas City Chiefs in 1965, when NBC obtained the television rights to the American Football League (AFL), which was annexed into the National Football League (NFL) – as the American Football Conference (AFC) – when the two professional football leagues merged in 1970. The station carried most regional or national Chiefs game telecasts aired by NBC through the 1993 season; the local rights to the Chiefs broadcasts transferred to KSHB after it assumed the NBC affiliation from WDAF in September 1994 and remained there until the network's contract with the AFC expired after the 1997 season (KSHB would resume airing certain regular season games involving the Chiefs in 2006, when NBC obtained the rights to the Sunday Night Football package). The loss of primary broadcast rights to the Chiefs by WDAF – one of two Fox affiliates affected by the New World agreement that is located in an AFC market, alongside WJW, which is located in the home market of the Cleveland Browns – differs from the situations in other former New World markets, mainly where it bought or already owned stations that were previously affiliated with CBS, in which the affected stations continued their relationships with a local NFL franchise after they switched to Fox (albeit with brief interruptions in these arrangements in cities such as Milwaukee, Atlanta and Dallas, where Fox's assumption of the NFC rights predated some of the stations' affiliation switches by several months). As a Fox station, since the network obtained partial broadcast rights to the NFL in 1994, Chiefs game telecasts on WDAF during the regular season have been limited to regionally televised interconference games against opponents in the National Football Conference (NFC), primarily those held at Arrowhead Stadium, and since 2014, cross-flexed games originally scheduled to air on CBS in which the team plays against a fellow AFC team. However, Channel 4 held broadcast rights to preseason games involving the team from 1997 to 2001 through a partnership with the Chiefs Television Network; during this period, the on-air production presentation of the locally exclusive telecasts was upgraded to network quality standards by way of WDAF's then-ownership under Fox. Currently, most regular season and some preseason games shown over-the-air locally are televised by KCTV, which has served as the Chiefs' preseason broadcaster since 2002, four years after CBS took over the AFC television rights when that station became the team's primary local broadcaster and carrier of analysis and magazine programs produced by the team's production unit. WDAF-TV also carried the Chiefs' victory over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV, the team's first championship in 50 years. KSHB-TV became the unofficial "home" station of the Kansas City Chiefs upon becoming an NBC affiliate in September 1994. Through the network's broadcasting contract with the American Football Conference (AFC), KSHB aired regular season and playoff games to which NBC held rights to televise in the team's designated regional market. Prior to the affiliation switch, WDAF-TV had previously aired most of the Chiefs' games as an NBC affiliate beginning in September 1965, when the network assumed rights to the American Football League (AFL, of which the Chiefs were part of at the time), which had its teams annexed into the American Football Conference after the AFL merged into the National Football League (NFL) in 1970 (the transfer of Chiefs local broadcasts from WDAF to KSHB as well as that between Cleveland differed from the situation in New World markets, mainly those where that group bought or already owned a CBS-affiliated station, in which the stations that were affected by the deal continued their relationships with local NFL teams when Fox assumed the NFC rights). The Chiefs game telecasts moved to KCTV in September 1998, when CBS took over the national television rights to the AFC package. Since NBC resumed telecasting NFL games in September 2006, Chiefs games now only air on KSHB whenever the franchise is one of the featured teams participating in a Sunday Night Football telecast. On September 21, 2019, KSHB and its sister station KMCI replaced KCTV as the official broadcast partners of the Chiefs, giving the stations exclusive rights to team programming, including preseason contests, plus marketing opportunities. Since September 1998, KCTV has served as the primary broadcaster of the Kansas City Chiefs, a status that it assumed by way of NBC's former contract with the American Football Conference (AFC) from KSHB-TV, which had carried the team's games from September 1994 (when NBC moved to channel 41 from WDAF-TV) until NBC's broadcast rights to the NFL conference expired after the 1997 season. KCTV also maintained a broadcast partnership with the team's Chiefs Television Network unit under which it held the exclusive local rights to various weekly analysis and magazine programs (including the coaches show Chiefs Kingdom, analysis shows Chiefs Insider and Chiefs Rewind, and the local pre-game show Price Chopper Game Day) plus preseason games that the team syndicates across the region. On September 21, 2019, the Chiefs announced that KSHB and its sister station KMCI would become their official broadcast partners, giving the stations exclusive rights to team programming, including preseason contests, plus marketing opportunities. Prior to 1998, regular season Chiefs game telecasts on KCMO-TV/KCTV were limited to regionally televised interconference games against opponents in the National Football Conference (NFC), primarily those held at Arrowhead Stadium, under the network's previous contractual rights to that conference that expired after the 1993 season, as well as two of the team's Super Bowl appearances in 1967 and 1970, the latter of which had been the team's only championship victory until 2020. Over-the-air broadcasts of Chiefs regular season games not televised by CBS are split locally between KMBC-TV (which airs Monday Night Football broadcasts featuring the team sublicensed by ESPN) and WDAF (which, through Fox's rights to the NFC, carries the team's interconference games as well as AFC-exclusive games to which CBS passed over the rights to Fox under the cross-flexing arrangement implemented by the NFL in 2014); KSHB also carries certain regular season games via NBC's rights to the Sunday Night Football package on occasions when a game involving the Chiefs is scheduled. KCTV served as the local broadcaster for the Chiefs' appearance in Super Bowl LV.
Las Vegas Raiders	KLAS 8	2020–present	In 2020, KLAS was named an official broadcast partner of the NFL's Las Vegas Raiders along with carrying the bulk of the team's games by virtue of CBS' carriage of the AFC contract, the station also carries the weekly highlight program The Silver & Black Show, the Raiders pre-game show on Sunday mornings, the Season Preview Show, and provides exclusive traffic and weather reports leading up to and including game days.
Los Angeles Raiders	KNBC 43	1982–1994	KNBC also provided local coverage of Super Bowl VII, which was hosted at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (and was the first Super Bowl televised in the host city), as well as Super Bowls XI, XVII, and XXVII, which were hosted at the Rose Bowl. Furthermore, the station will provide local coverage of Super Bowl LVI, to be held at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. The first Super Bowl, which was also held at the Coliseum and broadcast on both NBC and CBS, did not air on KNBC or KNXT (channel 2, now KCBS-TV), due to the NFL's blackout policy of the time, which did not allow home telecasts of games regardless of whether they were sold out, including playoffs and the league championship game, and that policy extended to the host cities for the first six Super Bowls—Los Angeles, Miami (II, III, V), and New Orleans (IV and VI). The American Football League, before its merger with the NFL starting with the 1970 season, also had a similar home blackout policy to the NFL's, and starting with the 1973 season, home games were allowed to be televised in the local market, so long as the game sold out 72 hours in advance (the blackout rules were lifted completely in 2015). This allowed KNBC to televise any Los Angeles Rams inter-conference home games via NBC's AFC Sunday afternoon package if the game was sold out in advance; the first such game was the final home game of the 1973 season, as the Rams hosted the Cleveland Browns at the Coliseum on December 16.
Los Angeles Chargers	KCBS 21	2017–present	In 2017, the station became the unofficial "home" station of the NFL's Chargers franchise, which announced on January 12, 2017, that it had exercised an option to leave its longtime home of San Diego and join the Rams in Los Angeles; the newly relocated and rechristened Los Angeles Chargers are part of the AFC, and therefore most of their games (the vast majority of road games, home games against AFC opponents and select games cross-flexed from Fox) are carried by CBS. Because Los Angeles was previously a secondary market of the Chargers during their time in San Diego, the station was already under requirement to carry the team's road games. KCBS was scheduled to resume carriage of Chargers preseason games starting with the 2020 season, however with the COVID-19 pandemic affecting the United States, preseason games across the NFL were cancelled and not rescheduled. The station previously televised Charger preseason games from 2002 to 2015.
Miami Dolphins	WSVN 7 (Now Fox) (known as WCKT from 1970–1983) WTVJ 6 (Channel 4 from 1989–Week 1 of 1995 season)3 WFOR 41	1970–1988 1989–1997 1998–present	In 1966, with the establishment of the Miami Dolphins of the American Football League, the station, via NBC, which held the league's broadcast rights, became the station of record for the new team. The station provided coverage of the Dolphins' victory in Super Bowl VII after their perfect season in 1972. The station during this time also provided local coverage of Super Bowls III, V, and XIII, which were hosted at the Miami Orange Bowl. This alliance continued until the end of the 1988 season, when most games moved over to WTVJ (today, most games are aired by WFOR). Since 1994, the station airs at least two Dolphins games a season via the NFL on Fox, usually when the team plays host to an NFC team at Hard Rock Stadium, however, starting in 2014, with the institution of the NFL's new broadcast 'cross-flex' rules, more games can be seen on Channel 7 when they are moved from WFOR, and since 2018, via Fox's exclusive contract, Thursday Night Football games. In 1989, WTVJ became the primary home station for the NFL's Miami Dolphins (via NBC's rights at the time to air AFC games), succeeding WSVN in this capacity. Before, WTVJ only provided CBS coverage of Dolphins games played at home against an NFC team. The station also provided coverage of the Dolphins' Super Bowl VIII victory, as well as Super Bowls II and X which were hosted at the Miami Orange Bowl, plus Super Bowl XXIII which was played at Joe Robbie Stadium. This continued until 1997 when WFOR-TV gained the rights to most games thanks to CBS' acquisition of the AFC broadcast package. The station now airs Dolphins games when they appear on NBC's Sunday Night Football. Since 1998, through CBS' broadcast contract with the AFC, WFOR has been the primary station for the Miami Dolphins; starting in 2014, with the NFL's new "cross-flex" broadcast rules, more games can be broadcast on WFOR. The station also provided local coverage of Super Bowls XLI and XLIV, both of which were hosted at what is now Hard Rock Stadium.
New England Patriots	WBZ 41 WHDH 7 (Now Independent)	1970–1994; 1998–present 1995–1997	The station has long been associated with the New England Patriots of the National Football League, an association that began in 1965 after NBC's acquisition of rights to the American Football League, of which the Patriots were a part of then. After WBZ's switch to CBS, Patriots regular season games would not air on the station again until 1998, when CBS acquired the television rights to the NFL's present AFC. Since then, the majority of Patriots regular season games have aired on WBZ, and in 2009, the station became the Patriots' "official" station, gaining rights to preseason games and airing the weekly program Patriots All Access. Three of the Patriots' Super Bowl appearances—XX, XXXVIII and LIII (including the team's wins in the latter two)—were televised by WBZ. WHDH became the primary station for the New England Patriots in 1995, as the Patriots played in the American Football Conference of the NFL, which had a deal with NBC for the network to air AFC games (thus Boston was not as important as a market for Fox in regards to getting an VHF affiliate). When the AFC package moved to CBS in 1998, this role was reclaimed by WBZ-TV. From 2006 to 2016, the station aired Patriots games when they were featured on NBC Sunday Night Football (the station aired the Patriots' Super Bowl XLIX victory in 2015).
New York Jets	WNBC 43 WCBS 21	1970–1997 1998–present	Through NBC's coverage of the National Football League, WNBC has televised two Super Bowl championships won by New York teams: the Jets' upset victory over the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III, and the Giants' win over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI. WNBC also serves as the official flagship carrier of Giants preseason football games and is the New York area station for NBC's national broadcasts of Sunday Night Football featuring either one of the two teams. The station also served as the default home station of the Jets from 1965 (when NBC became the broadcaster for the American Football League of which the Jets were then a part) until 1997, when WCBS-TV became the new broadcast rightsholder (through CBS) of what was by now the American Football Conference; it also aired occasional New York Giants games from 1970 (with the completion of the AFL/NFL merger) to 1997; these were limited to home interconference contests. From 1956 until 1993, WCBS-TV carried most New York Giants games through the network's coverage of the National Football League. CBS lost the rights to the National Football Conference (NFC) to Fox in 1994, resulting in Giants games moving to WNYW; currently, Giants preseason games are carried by NBC owned-and-operated station WNBC (with WWOR-TV being served as an overflow station if the Summer Olympics conflicts with the preseason schedule). After a 5-year absence, the NFL returned to CBS and WCBS-TV in 1998 through a package of American Football Conference (AFC) games; the station currently airs New York Jets preseason games and most regular season games, along with occasional Giants games, usually when the team plays host to an AFC opponent at MetLife Stadium (or, since 2014, through the 'cross-flex' broadcast rules, any Giants games where they play another NFC team that are moved from Fox to CBS). The station also aired occasional Jets games when they played at home to an NFC team from 1970 to 1993. During the regular season, some Jets games are rotated with WNBC (through NBC Sunday Night Football), WNYW (through NFL on Fox and Thursday Night Football), WABC-TV (through Monday Night Football), WPIX (through Monday Night Football, if WABC-TV is not airing them) and select TNF telecasts not carried by Fox's package it shares with NFL Network), and in rare cases, WWOR-TV (through Monday Night Football). The station has aired the Giants' victory in Super Bowl XXI and loss in Super Bowl XXXV.
Oakland Raiders	KRON 4 (Now MyNetworkTV) KPIX 51	1970–1981; 1995–1997 1998–2019	In 1965, KRON-TV began broadcasting most Oakland Raiders games, which were at first part of the American Football League, which had a contract with NBC from 1965 to 1969, and then the National Football League's American Football Conference, which inherited the AFL's deal with NBC from 1970 to 1997 (the Raiders relocated to Los Angeles in 1982, stripping KRON of its status as the team's home station until they returned to Oakland in 1995; the station then served as the unofficial home station until 1997). KRON aired coverage of the Raiders' victories in Super Bowl XI and Super Bowl XV. In 2021, KRON-TV became the now Las Vegas Raiders' official Bay Area home station for pre-season games and special programming. In addition, during those same years (1970–1997), KRON-TV also aired select San Francisco 49ers games whenever they played host to an AFC opponent at Candlestick Park (the station aired the team's victory in Super Bowl XXIII in January 1989). From 1956 to 1993, KPIX carried most San Francisco 49ers games locally as part of CBS' broadcast rights to the NFL, which covered the entire pre-merger league until 1970, and the National Football Conference from 1970 to 1993. Two of the 49ers' Super Bowl victories aired locally on KPIX: Super Bowl XVI and Super Bowl XXIV. KPIX lost the 49ers to KTVU (channel 2) in 1994 (a year after fan favorite Joe Montana was traded to the Kansas City Chiefs), when the NFC package moved to Fox. However, in 1998, the American Football Conference package moved to CBS from NBC, and KPIX has aired most Raiders games (both in Oakland and Las Vegas) since. However, KPIX will still air 49ers afternoon games if the team plays against an AFC team at Levi's Stadium. KPIX has also broadcast 49ers games in the immediate Bay Area market if the team plays on ESPN's Monday Night Football or more recently on Thursday Night Football, produced by NFL Network, in partnership with CBS Sports. In 2014, with the institution of the NFL's new 'cross-flex' rules, any games that involve the 49ers playing an NFC opponent can be moved from KTVU, and aired on KPIX. The station also provided local coverage of Super Bowl 50, which was played at Levi's Stadium.
Pittsburgh Steelers	WPXI 11 (known as WIIC from 1970–1981) KDKA 21	1970–1997 1998–present	In 1970, when the Pittsburgh Steelers moved to the American Football Conference after the AFL-NFL merger, channel 11 became the station of record for the team (as NBC held the broadcast rights to AFC games then); this partnership continued through 1997 (after that season, CBS took over the AFC broadcast rights, and most games moved to CBS O&O KDKA-TV; channel 2 had previously served as the default home station from 1962 to 1969). Even though it aired most of the games from the Steelers' glory years of the 1970s—typically the highest-rated television programs in the market during that time—channel 11 stayed in the ratings basement. Today, Steelers games are shown on WPXI when they are featured on NBC's Sunday Night Football; in addition, the station has aired three of its Super Bowl victories (IX, XIII and XLIII) and its appearance in Super Bowl XXX. As CBS holds the broadcast contract with the NFL to show games involving AFC teams, KDKA-TV has been the official broadcaster of most Pittsburgh Steelers games since 1998, and serves as the team's flagship station. The team's preseason games that are not nationally televised are also shown on KDKA-TV. KDKA-TV began its relationship with the Steelers in 1962, when CBS first started the leaguewide television package. The Steelers are one of three AFC teams that predate the AFC's basis league, the American Football League, and so KDKA-TV, and not WTAE-TV or WIIC-TV (now WPXI), carried Steelers road games (home games were blacked out locally under all circumstances until 1973, when sold-out home games began to be allowed on local television)—the AFL had television contracts with ABC, and later, NBC. Due to the NFL rules of the time, after the AFL-NFL merger (and with it, the Steelers move to the newly formed AFC), KDKA-TV did not broadcast any Steelers games from 1970 to 1972 (Steeler games were exclusive to what was then WIIC-TV in that period). Beginning in 1973, KDKA-TV was allowed to air any Steelers games in which they hosted a team from the National Football Conference, which contained most of the old-line NFL teams. KDKA-TV also broadcast two Steeler championship wins, Super Bowl X in 1976 and Super Bowl XIV in 1980. Since the Steelers have sold out every home game starting in 1972, no blackouts have been required. In the meantime, from 1970 to 1997, channel 11 aired most Steelers games (and exclusively from 1970 to 1972). When the NFC package moved from CBS to Fox in 1994, WPGH-TV aired the Steelers games that had before aired on KDKA-TV, leaving the senior station without Steelers games for four years. Today, and in general since 1970, the only exceptions to all the above are when the Steelers play at night. Their Monday Night Football games have always aired locally on WTAE-TV, first when ABC had the rights, and since 2006, on ESPN. WTAE-TV also aired simulcasts of their games aired as part of ESPN Sunday Night Football from 1987 to 2005 (since 2006, WPXI airs Steelers games when they play on Sunday nights). The NFL requires games on cable channels to be simulcast over-the-air in the markets of the participating teams (again with the home team's broadcast subject to blackout). WTAE-TV has simulcast ESPN-aired games because ESPN is 20% owned by WTAE-TV's owners, Hearst Corporation—their ABC stations have right of first refusal for these simulcasts. Games on TNT and NFL Network have aired on various stations in the area. In 2014, with the NFL's new 'cross-flex' broadcast rules, any games that involve the Steelers playing another AFC opponent (or NFC opponent on the road) scheduled to air on KDKA-TV can now air on Fox station WPGH-TV.
San Diego Chargers	KGTV 10 (Now ABC) KNSD 39 (known as KCST from 1977–1988)3 KFMB 8	1970–1976 1977–1997 1998–2016	In 1965, when NBC, which KGTV was affiliated with then, gained the rights to air American Football League games, channel 10 became the station of record for the San Diego Chargers, which were part of the AFL. The station aired most Charger games until the 1976 season, when KCST-TV (now KNSD), with its switch to NBC, became the default station for the team. After becoming an ABC affiliate, the station would, from 1977 to 2005 air Charger games when they played on ABC's Monday Night Football. The station also aired the team's only Super Bowl appearance in Super Bowl XXIX in 1995. KGTV also provided coverage of Super Bowls XXII and XXXVII. Both were hosted at Qualcomm Stadium. When channel 39 switched to NBC in 1977, it became the default home station for the NFL's San Diego Chargers (by way of NBC's rights to air AFC games), airing most games until the end of the 1997 season, when KFMB became the team's new station of record with the AFC broadcast rights moving over to CBS. From 2006 to 2016, the station aired Chargers games when they played on Sunday Night Football; this still continues today despite the Chargers' return to Los Angeles after 2016. KNSD also provided local coverage of Super Bowl XXXII, which was hosted at Qualcomm Stadium. In 1998, KFMB-TV was awarded the local broadcast rights to San Diego Chargers preseason game telecasts; that same year, CBS acquired the rights to the American Football Conference (the NFL conference of which the Chargers are a member), making channel 8 the station of record for the team, succeeding KNSD in that capacity (the station had previously aired Chargers home interconference games from 1970 to 1993). This would remain so until 2017, when the team returned to Los Angeles after 55 years, thus ending channel 8's status as the team's unofficial home station (despite the move, the station still airs a majority of their games as San Diego is still a secondary market for the team and therefore road games are contractually required to be aired in the market). Channel 8 also simulcast the Chargers' appearances on NFL Network's Thursday Night Football and ESPN's Monday Night Football, as per NFL rules which require games aired on cable networks to be simulcast on a local broadcast station in the team's home market.
Seattle Seahawks	KING 5 KIRO 7	1977–1997 1998–2001	KING-TV was the official broadcast home of Seattle Seahawks preseason games, with the exception of those shown on national television, from 1981 to 2000 and again from 2005 to 2011 (sister station KONG carried Seahawks preseason games in 2003 and 2004). The station also airs Seahawks games through NBC's broadcast contract with the NFL (via Sunday Night Football; it has also served as the team's unofficial home station, carrying most games from 1977 to 1997 when the team played in the AFC, which NBC held the broadcast rights to in those years). Notably, this included the team's appearance in Super Bowl XLIX. KIRO-TV was also the flagship station for pre-season game broadcasts of the Seattle Seahawks from 1976 to 1980. Play-by-play announcers were Gary Justice (1976–78) and Wayne Cody (1979–85), who was also the station's sports anchor. The station also airs Seahawks games (at least two each season) when the team hosts an AFC team at Lumen Field, via the NFL on CBS (it was previously the station where the majority of the team's games aired in 1976 and again from 1998 to 2001), and beginning in 2014, with the institution of the new "cross-flex" broadcast rule, any games in which they play another NFC team (or an AFC team on the road) that are moved from Fox (KCPQ) to CBS.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers	WFLA 8	1976	Since 2006, channel 8 airs any Tampa Bay Buccaneers games when they are featured on NBC Sunday Night Football; the station also served as the default home station of the team in its first season as a member of the American Football Conference in 1976; with the team's move to the National Football Conference the next year, the station aired up to two games a season in which they played host to an AFC team at Tampa Stadium until the end of the 1997 season. WFLA provided local coverage of Super Bowl XLIII, which was hosted at Raymond James Stadium.
Tennessee Oilers/Titans	WMC 5 (Memphis) WTVF 5	1997 1998–present	In 1998, WTVF became the primary home station for the Tennessee Titans, then still known as the Oilers starting with that season, when the rights to air road games of the National Football League's American Football Conference moved to CBS from NBC. In 2014, the first eight weeks of NFL Network's Thursday Night Football were added to WTVF's sports programming roster due to the new partnership between NFL Network and CBS to simulcast that program. WTVF began simulcasting any of the Tennessee Titans' TNF appearances in the late half of the season, beginning with the Tennessee Titans-Jacksonville Jaguars game on Thursday, November 19, 2015. In the 2013 and 2014 seasons, that duty was previously held by Fox affiliate WZTV until the Fox network became the over-the-air broadcaster of most TNF games. All other CBS Sports programming is featured on the station, including their signature broadcasts of college basketball. Since 2018, WZTV broadcasts TNF games as part of Fox's rights to the package.

Before the AFL-NFL merger

Date	Teams	Time (EST)	Station	Play-by-play	Color commentators
9/10/60	Texans-Chargers	11:00	WFAA-Dallas/Ft. Worth	Charlie Jones	Fred Benners
9/17/60	Patriots-Titans	8:00	WHDH-Boston	Jim Simpson	Frank Leahy
9/23/60	Bills-Patriots	8:00	Local to BUF
12/10/60	Broncos-Chargers	4:00	KBTV-Denver	Lee Giroux	Ron Waller
11/23/62	Bills-Patriots	8:00	Local to Buffalo
9/27/64	Oilers-Broncos	4:30	Local to HOU
10/11/64	Bills-Oilers	9:00	WKBW-Buffalo	Rick Azar
10/17/64	Oilers-Jets	8:00	Local to HOU
11/6/64	Oilers-Patriots	8:00	Local to HOU
9/9/67	Oilers-Chiefs	9:00	Local to HOU (B/W)
9/10/67	Broncos-Raiders	4:30	KWGN-Denver (B/W)	Fred Leo
10/1/67	Broncos-Oilers	2:00	KOA-Denver (B/W)
10/1/67	Dolphins-Jets	2:00	WCKT-Miami (B/W)
10/1/67	Chargers-Bills	2:00	Local to SD (B/W)	Lou Boda
10/5/69	Bills-Oilers	4:00	WGR-Buffalo
10/5/69	Chiefs-Broncos	4:00	KCMO-Kansas City
10/11/69	Chargers-Dolphins	8:00	KCST-San Diego	Bob Chandler

National Football Conference

From 1970–1993, CBS held the National Football Conference (NFC) package. Since 1994, the Fox Broadcasting Company has held the NFC package.

Team	Stations	Years	Notes
Atlanta Falcons	WAGA 52 WATL 36 (Later WB; now MyNetworkTV)	1970–1993; 1994 (beginning in Week 16)–present 1994 (Weeks 1–15)	WAGA began serving as the primary television station for the Atlanta Falcons upon the team's inception in 1966, under CBS's contractual television rights to the pre-AFL merger National Football League. The station carried most regional or national Falcons game telecasts aired by CBS until its contractual rights to the National Football Conference concluded in 1993. However, the station's December 1994 switch to Fox allowed WAGA to retain its status as the Falcons' unofficial "home" station. For the 1994 season, most of the team's first fourteen games that year were aired instead on lame-duck Fox O&O WATL; with that, the 3½-month interruption in game coverage that year, due to the transfer of NFC telecast rights from CBS to Fox, is the only break in network coverage of the team by the station to date since 1966. Since the switch to Fox, both of the Falcons' Super Bowl appearances—XXXIII and LI—have been carried on the station, as both were Super Bowls to which Fox had the national television rights. Outlet continued to own the station until 1989, when Outlet sold WATL, along with WXIN in Indianapolis, to Chase Broadcasting for $120 million. By then, the station was called "Fox 36". In 1992, WATL and WXIN were included in Chase's merger with Renaissance Broadcasting. Less than a year later, WATL was sold to Fox Television Stations outright and channel 36 became a Fox owned-and-operated station—the first network-owned station in Atlanta—although for only two years (Renaissance would trade then-new Denver sister station KDVR to Fox in exchange for the network's Dallas affiliate KDAF two years later). Fox was in the planning stages for a news department at the station, and WATL had even gone as far as hiring a news director. However, on May 22, 1994, New World Communications announced an affiliation agreement with Fox, months after the network won the broadcast rights to the NFL's National Football Conference. In this deal, most of New World-owned longtime "Big Three"-affiliated stations, including Atlanta's longtime CBS affiliate WAGA, would switch over to the Fox network. As a result, Fox canceled the plans for a newscast on WATL and put the station up for sale.
Carolina Panthers	WHNS 21 (Greenville (Clemson), South Carolina) WCCB 18 (Now CW) WJZY 46	1995 1996–2012 2013–present	In 1986, WCCB became the last station in a top-50 market to join Fox as one of the upstart network's charter affiliates, since it was doing so well in the ratings as an independent. WCCB affiliated with the network when it launched on October 6 of that year. For most of the next quarter-century, WCCB was one of the strongest Fox stations in the country – even claiming to be the highest-rated Fox affiliate in the nation during the 2008–09 television season. The station reaped a major windfall after the NFL moved its National Football Conference television package from CBS to Fox in 1994. By coincidence, this made WCCB the unofficial "home" station of the Carolina Panthers upon the team's 1995 inception. WCCB carried most Panthers regular season games during the team's first 18 seasons, and later acquired the local rights to the team's preseason games from WBTV. Panthers games had generally been the most-watched programs in the market during the NFL football season. After having branded itself as "TV18" since sign-on, WCCB changed its branding to "Fox 18" in 1988 and then to "Fox Charlotte" in 2002. On January 14, 2013, Fox Television Stations entered into an agreement to acquire WJZY and WMYT from Capitol Broadcasting for $18 million (the sale was formally announced on January 28). Although Charlotte's longtime Fox affiliate, WCCB, had been one of the network's strongest performers, Fox had been interested in buying a station in a steadily growing market that was home to the Carolina Panthers, a National Football Conference team whose games air primarily on Fox. Another likely factor in the purchase was an option that Fox held to purchase WLFL and WRDC in the Raleigh–Durham market from Sinclair Broadcast Group; had Fox exercised the option, it would have jeopardized the affiliation of another Capitol station, WRAZ in that market. The deal included a time brokerage agreement clause that would have had Fox take over the operations of WJZY and WMYT and acquire the duopoly's non-license assets for $8.24 million if the deal was not closed by June 1. The FCC granted its approval of the sale on March 11, and the deal was consummated on April 17.
Chicago Bears	WBBM 21 WFLD 322 WCCU 27 (Champaign, Illinois)	1970–1993 1994–2001; 2003–present 2002	In 1956, when CBS began televising National Football League (NFL) games, WBBM became the primary station for the Chicago Bears, carrying most of the team's regular-season games (as well as preseason games off and on through the years), and until they moved to St. Louis in 1960, they were also the primary station for Chicago Cardinals regular-season games as well; the WBBM-Bears partnership continued until the end of the 1993 season, when the network lost the rights to the National Football Conference (NFC) to Fox with the majority of games being carried since then by that network's Chicago O&O WFLD. Presently, WBBM-TV carries Bears regular season games only during weeks in which the team is scheduled to host an American Football Conference (AFC) opponent at Soldier Field in a Sunday afternoon timeslot. However, beginning in 2014 with the introduction of "cross-flex" scheduling (and with it the end of determining broadcast rights by conference), exceptions exist for certain game telecasts that CBS originally held rights to which are shifted to Fox (such as the 2014 home game against the Buffalo Bills), and NFC vs. NFC games that are conversely shifted from Fox to CBS (such as a 2019 home game against the Minnesota Vikings). Additionally, Super Bowl XLI, where the Bears played against the Indianapolis Colts, was televised on CBS and WBBM. Through Fox's primary rights to the National Football Conference (NFC), the station has aired most Chicago Bears games since the network acquired partial television rights to the National Football League (NFL) in 1994. On April 22, 2008, the Bears announced a deal with WFLD to become its official broadcast partner. Consequently, in addition to already carrying most regular season and select preseason games through Fox, it began airing preseason games through the team's syndication service as well as other Bears-related programming during the NFL season including the pre-game and post-game shows Bears Gameday Live (on Sunday mornings) and Bears GameNight Live (which follows The Final Word on Sunday evenings). Other team-related programs were added through the deal including WFLD-produced secondary pre-game show Fox Kickoff Sunday (which debuted in 2010; not to be confused with Fox NFL Kickoff, which due to Bears Gameday Live, airs on WPWR instead) and the feature/interview program Inside the Bears (which debuted in 2013). On October 17, 2017, WFLD announced that it had renewed its Bears rights through the 2022 season. Since 2018, WFLD has, through Fox, also aired any Bears games that are part of the Thursday Night Football package.
Dallas Cowboys	KDFW 42 KDAF 33 (Later WB; now CW)	1970–1993; 1995–present 1994	KDFW began serving as the primary television station for the Dallas Cowboys as a CBS affiliate in 1960 upon the team's enfranchisement, through CBS' television rights to the pre-AFL merger National Football League. The station carried most regional or national Cowboys game telecasts aired by CBS, including the team's victories in Super Bowl VI and Super Bowl XII, (after 1970, the only games channel 4 did not air were home interconference contests) until its contractual rights to the National Football Conference concluded in 1993. To date, the one-year interruption in game coverage after that season, due to the transfer of NFC telecast rights from CBS to Fox, is the only break in network coverage of the team by the station since 1962; for the 1994 season, most of the team's over-the-air game telecasts aired instead on lame-duck Fox O&O KDAF. Channel 4 resumed its status as the Cowboys' primary local broadcaster two months after it joined Fox, in September 1995; incidentally, that year's NFL season saw the Cowboys compete in Super Bowl XXX (which aired locally on NBC affiliate KXAS-TV), in which they defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers, 27–17, to win the championship title. KDFW also provided local coverage of Super Bowl XLV which took place at AT&T Stadium. Unlike in most other NFC markets with a Fox owned-and-operated station in which the station maintains such an arrangement with a local NFL franchise, KDFW does not carry any team-produced analysis or magazine programming; channel 4 held the local rights to air various team-related programs and specials during the regular season until 1998, when the local rights to these programs migrated to KTVT under a programming agreement reached between that station and the Cowboys earlier that year, in advance of CBS's assumption of the broadcast rights to the rival American Football Conference (AFC). The KTVT arrangement exists even though, as a CBS station, its telecasts of Cowboys regular season games are limited to those involving an AFC opponent or, since 2014, cross-flexed games declined by Fox that involve opponents in the NFC. In 1993, Fox became a seven-night-a-week network for the first time. "Fox 33" had momentum: the network had pulled off a coup by obtaining television rights to the National Football Conference of the NFL, including the Dallas Cowboys. As a result of the network's growth, and accelerated by the football rights, Fox tapped Lisa Gregorisch, who had been news director at the company's KSTU in Salt Lake City, to lead the development of what would be channel 33's second local news service.
Detroit Lions	WJBK 22 WKBD 50 (Later UPN; now CW)	1970–1993; 1994 (beginning in Week 16)–present 1994 (Weeks 1–15)	WJBK has had a long-standing relationship with the NFL's Detroit Lions (first with CBS, now Fox), having carried most of its games since 1956, when CBS started airing NFL games. Except for the first three months of the 1994 season (before the affiliation switch took effect), it has been the unofficial regular-season "home" station of the Lions ever since. For the first 15 weeks of the 1994 season, the games aired on lame-duck Fox outlet WKBD. However, regular season home games were subject to the NFL's local television blackout policy. This occurred five times during the Lions' winless season of 2008 when five home games were blacked out due to low ticket sales. However, in 2015, the NFL decided to lift the blackout rules on an experimental basis, meaning that Lions games were shown on Channel 2 regardless of ticket sales; this policy was continued the next season in 2016 as well, and has continued indefinitely as of 2019. In previous years, WJBK had also televised Lions preseason games as the flagship station of the Detroit Lions Television Network and produced pregame and postgame shows. Those preseason broadcast rights were then held by WWJ-TV and then WXYZ-TV until 2015, when WJBK once again became the official preseason station of the Lions as well. As a CBS affiliate, WJBK aired the network's coverage of Super Bowl XVI, which was hosted locally at the Pontiac Silverdome. During the final year of its Fox affiliation, WKBD was the primary station for the Lions for much of the 1994 season (the team's last game on WKBD was the December 10 game at the New York Jets, with the games moving back to WJBK the next week). On occasion (and regularly during preseason games), WKBD produced broadcasts of Detroit Lions football games, as well as Detroit Pistons basketball games, until the late 1980s when the Pistons decided to produce and distribute the games itself, with WKBD responsible for advertising. Both teams' games were simulcast on a handful of other stations across Michigan. On April 16, 2008, CBS O&O sister station WWJ-TV entered into an agreement to carry Detroit Lions exhibition games. The departure of longtime sports producer Toby Cunningham (whose termination was part of budget cuts imposed by CBS Corporation at all of its television stations) closed the book on the storied history of sports coverage by WKBD. WWJ-TV broadcast preseason Lions games until 2010, when WXYZ-TV was signed as the team's new flagship station.
Green Bay Packers	WBAY 2 (Now ABC) WFRV 5 WGBA 26 (Now NBC) WLUK 11 WISN 12 (Now ABC) (Milwaukee) WITI 6 (Milwaukee)2 WCGV 24 (Later UPN; now MyNetworkTV) (Now WVTV-DT2) (Milwaukee)	1970–1991 1992–1993 1994 1995–present 1970–1976 1977–1993; 1994 (beginning in Week 15)–present 1994 (Weeks 1–14)	As a CBS affiliate, WBAY-TV benefited from that network's coverage of National Football League games, primarily those of the Green Bay Packers. The station carried its first Packers game a few months after signing on, and continued to air most Packers games until 1991 by virtue of CBS holding the rights to the Packers' conference, the National Football Conference (for the 1992 and 1993 seasons, Packers games moved to WFRV when that station switched to CBS). Packers games drew up to a 90 percent share of the audience during the team's championship era of the 1960s under Vince Lombardi (including the team's first two Super Bowl triumphs in Super Bowl I and Super Bowl II, the former of which was also carried by then-NBC affiliate WFRV), and the station carried the team's coaches' show The Vince Lombardi Show. The station also originated the team's exhibition game coverage from the 1960s to 2002, with some exceptions. Main anchor Bill Jartz has been Lambeau Field's PA system announcer since the start of the 2005–2006 season. The station continued to air Monday Night Football Packer games originating from ESPN beginning with the move of MNF to cable starting with the 2006 until the 2015 season. For the 2016 season, WLUK-TV, the Packers' primary home by virtue of Fox presently holding the rights to the NFC, acquired the syndication rights to the ESPN games under a multi-year agreement. It was the first time that WBAY did not carry a Packers game during an NFL season in its 63-year history. From 2003 to 2011, WFRV carried Green Bay Packers pre-season games and related official team programming, with the station branding as "Your Official Packers Station". Packer-related programming on WFRV has included Larry McCarren's Locker Room, a Monday night program which featured WFRV sports director and former Packer lineman Larry McCarren analyzing the previous day's Packer game and interviewing with the team's players and staff. In March 2012, the Packers entered into an agreement with Journal Broadcast Group to air Packers pre-season games and official programming on Journal-owned WGBA-TV (channel 26), making it the "official Packers station" in Green Bay; In 1994, during the first year of Fox's contract to broadcast NFL games, the station entered into a contract with ABC affiliate WBAY-TV (channel 2) to produce a pregame show to air before Green Bay Packers games since it lacked a local sports department. With Fox gaining rights to air NFC games, channel 26 became the Packers' unofficial home station (a role it would only hold for one season; since their switch to NBC, the station aired any Packer games from 1995 to 1997 when the team hosted an AFC team at Lambeau Field, and since 2006, all NBC Sunday Night Football games). Because of Fox's 1994 acquisition of television rights to the NFL's National Football Conference, the switch made WLUK the unofficial "home" station of the Green Bay Packers after years on WBAY (and two years on WFRV), which became a major ratings draw (during the 1994 season, WGBA was the station of record for the Packers). Since channel 11 joined Fox, Packer football games have routinely drawn an 80% share of the viewing audience – far and away the highest-rated programs in the market, and through Fox's NFL rights deal, the station has broadcast two of the three Super Bowl games the Packers have appeared in, both victories, since 1994; Super Bowls XXXI and XLV, both by far the highest-rated programs in the Green Bay market's history. During channel 12's time with CBS, it served as the default home station for the NFL's Green Bay Packers for the Milwaukee market, and airing the team's first two Super Bowl appearances (also the first two Super Bowl games in NFL history); it was succeeded and preceded in this stead by WITI. WITI began serving as the primary television station for the Green Bay Packers as a CBS affiliate in 1959, when the network obtained the television rights to the pre-AFL merger National Football League; after the switch to ABC, no games aired until 1970 when Monday Night Football premiered on the network. WITI has aired most regional or national Packers game telecasts since returning to CBS in 1977, albeit with a three-month interruption due to CBS losing its contractual rights to the National Football Conference following the 1993 season (the games instead aired on WCGV for the first three months of Fox's NFC telecasts as a lame-duck affiliate, but without any pre-game programming). Through the transfer of the NFC television rights from CBS for the 1994 season, the station's December 1994 switch to Fox allowed WITI to retain its status as Milwaukee's "home" station for the Green Bay Packers. It also carried the team's Thursday Night Football games involving the Packers from NFL Network locally early on in that package's life before it began simulcasts on CBS (2014 and 2015), along with NBC starting in 2016, before returning to Fox exclusively in the 2018 season until the end of the 2021 season. In early 1994, WITI was named as the market's new Fox affiliate as a result of a deal between the station's owner New World Communications and Fox as part of the network's decision to upgrade affiliates in certain markets after it acquired the broadcast rights to the National Football Conference of the NFL. For a short time between September and November 1994, the station carried Green Bay Packers games in the market through the network's NFC package as a lame-duck affiliate, though without any pre-game programming, the only break in network coverage by WITI of the team since the 1977 affiliation switch between WISN and WITI, which took place in the off-season.
Los Angeles Rams	KCBS 2 (known as KNXT from 1970–1983)1 KTTV 112	1970–1993 1994; 2016–present	In 1956, CBS began broadcasting NFL games, and with it, the Los Angeles Rams had their games aired on Channel 2. This alliance would continue through the 1993 season, when Fox took over the rights to broadcast NFC games, which led to KTTV being the new home station for one season in 1994, before the Rams moved to St. Louis. With the Rams' return to Los Angeles in 2016, Channel 2 will air games in which the Rams play host to an AFC opponent, and any cross-flexed games aired by CBS; the station previously aired Rams preseason games from 2016 to 2019, and intermittently in past years during the team's first stay in greater Los Angeles. From 1982 to 1993, Channel 2 also aired all home inter-conference games of the Raiders during their time in Los Angeles including their win in Super Bowl XVIII. The station also gave coverage to Super Bowl XIV, which the Rams were runners-up in, and Super Bowl XXI, both of which were hosted at the Rose Bowl in nearby Pasadena. As the first Super Bowl was held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and was televised nationally on both CBS (the exclusive home of the pre-merger NFL at the time) and NBC (the home network of the American Football League), the game was blacked out locally on KNXT and KNBC (channel 4), due to home-game blackout policies that both leagues had at the time (and carried over into the leagues' merger in 1970) that did not allow home games to be shown locally regardless of whether the game was sold out, and this policy also extended to the host city of the Super Bowl game; starting with the 1973 season, the blackout rules were relaxed; home games were allowed to be televised in the local market, so long as the game sold out 72 hours in advance (the blackout rules were lifted completely in 2015). With the return of the Rams franchise to Los Angeles, since 2016, KTTV has been the 'unofficial home' for the Los Angeles Rams through the network's primary rights of the National Football Conference. It had held this role for one season in 1994 prior to their move to St. Louis (that same year, Channel 11 aired two home interconference contests featuring the Raiders during their last season in Los Angeles). During the NFL regular season, Rams games are rotated with KNBC (through NBC Sunday Night Football), KABC-TV (through Monday Night Football) and most especially KCBS-TV (through the NFL on CBS). Since 2017, it has also broadcast Los Angeles Chargers games featuring a visiting NFC team, or games that are cross-flexed from CBS, with some select games from either team carried by KCOP if both teams are playing at the same time. Beginning in the 2018 season, the station began airing Thursday Night Football which is simulcast on NFL Network and if either one of the two LA teams are playing it serves as the local area station for gameday telecasts.
Minnesota Vikings	WCCO 41 WFTC 29 (Later UPN; now MyNetworkTV) (known as KITN in September 1994) KMSP 92	1970–1993 1994–2001 2002–present	In 1961, with the establishment of the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League, the station, via CBS, which held the rights to broadcast NFL games, became the 'unofficial' home station of the team. This partnership continued through the 1993 season, at which time most games were moved to WFTC. Today, most Vikings games are on KMSP-TV; since 1998, WCCO airs Vikings games (at least two each season) when the Vikings play host to an AFC team at the Metrodome/U.S. Bank Stadium, or, since 2014, with the institution of the new 'cross-flex' rules, any games that are moved from KMSP-TV. In 1992, WCCO provided coverage of Super Bowl XXVI, which was hosted at the Metrodome. With the Fox network gaining rights to NFL games (NFC games, and with it, Minnesota Vikings games) in the 1994 season, channel 29 succeeded WCCO-TV as the unofficial home station of the team. It would hold this role until the end of the 2001 season (since 2002, most games are broadcast on KMSP-TV). News Corporation, through its Fox Television Stations subsidiary, agreed to purchase Chris-Craft Industries and its stations, including KMSP-TV, for $5.35 billion in August 2000 (this brought KMSP, along with San Antonio's KMOL-TV and Salt Lake City's KTVX, back under common ownership with 20th Century Fox); the deal followed a bidding war with Viacom. The sale was completed on July 31, 2001. While Fox pledged to retain the Chris-Craft stations' UPN affiliations through at least the 2000–01 season, and Chris-Craft agreed to an 18-month renewal for its UPN affiliates in January 2001, an affiliation swap was expected once KMSP's affiliation agreement with UPN ran out in 2002, given Fox's presumed preference to have its programming on a station that it already owned. Additionally, KMSP's signal was much stronger than that of WFTC; it was a VHF station that had been on the air much longer than UHF outlet WFTC. Most importantly, Fox had been aggressively expanding local news programming on its stations, and KMSP had an established and competitive news department whereas WFTC's news department did not begin operations until April 2001. The move was made easier when, in July 2001, Fox agreed to trade KTVX and KMOL (now WOAI-TV) to Clear Channel Communications in exchange for WFTC, a transaction completed that October. The affiliation switch, officially announced in May 2002, occurred on September 8, 2002 (accompanied by a "Make the Switch" ad campaign that was seen on both stations), as Fox programming returned to KMSP-TV after a 14-year absence, while WFTC took the UPN affiliation; KMSP was the only former Chris-Craft station that was acquired and kept by Fox that did not retain its UPN affiliation. The station began carrying Fox's entire programming schedule at that time, including the Fox Box children's block (which later returned to WFTC as 4KidsTV, until the block was discontinued by Fox in December 2008 due to a dispute with 4Kids Entertainment). The affiliation swap coincided with the start of the 2002 NFL season; KMSP effectively became the "home" station for the NFL's Minnesota Vikings as a result of Fox holding the broadcast rights to the National Football Conference (from 1994 to 2001, most Vikings games were aired on WFTC).
New Orleans Saints	WWL 4 WNOL 38 (Later WB; now CW) WVUE 8 WGMB 44 (Baton Rouge)/KABB 29 (San Antonio)	1970–1993 1994–1995 1996–2004; 2006–present 2005	The station's local ownership came to an end in 1994, when the station was bought by the Dallas-based Belo Corporation. That year, channel 4's status as the unofficial "home" station of the New Orleans Saints came to an end after CBS lost the broadcast rights to the National Football Conference television package to Fox in December 1993. WWL-TV had aired most of the Saints' games since the team's inception in 1966, when CBS was the broadcast rightsholder for the pre-merger NFL, and continued upon the merger of the American Football League and the National Football League in 1970 with CBS becoming the NFC rightsholder. After CBS lost the NFC broadcast rights, the Saints telecasts moved to then-Fox affiliate WNOL-TV (channel 38) for the 1994 and 1995 seasons, before moving again to WVUE-TV (channel 8) upon that station's switch from ABC to Fox in January 1996. Today, WWL-TV only carries select games televised by CBS, primarily those in which the Saints play host to an AFC opponent at the Caesars Superdome although NFL cross-flexing procedures established in 2014 now allow for road games or NFC home games to be carried by CBS. The station also aired the Saints' victory in Super Bowl XLIV. WWL also provided local coverage of five New Orleans hosted Super Bowls, including IV and VI which were played at local Tulane Stadium, as well as Super Bowls XII, XXIV, and XLVII which were played at the Superdome. After Fox picked up the rights to air NFL games in 1994, channel 38, via the NFL on Fox, succeeded WWL-TV as the New Orleans Saints' station of record; it only served in this role for the 1994 and 1995 seasons; in 1996, WVUE-TV took over this role. Because of Fox's acquisition of television rights to the National Football Conference, the switch resulted in channel 8 becoming the unofficial "home" station for the New Orleans Saints, carrying many of the team's Sunday afternoon road games. WWL-TV had aired most of the Saints' games beginning in 1970, when CBS assumed rights to the NFC upon the merger of the American Football League and the National Football League; when CBS lost the NFC broadcast rights to Fox in 1994, the Saints telecasts resided on WNOL-TV for the following two years. In addition to WVUE, the team's regular season games televised over-the-air locally are split primarily between WWL-TV (for select games televised by CBS in which the Saints play against an AFC opponent; CBS also had the rights to the Saints' lone Super Bowl), WGNO (through over-the-air rights to the NFL Network's Thursday Night Football package), WDSU (through NBC's rights to Sunday prime time and select playoff games as well as its local broadcast rights to Monday Night Football contests during occasions when a game involving the Saints is scheduled) and preseason games (which, as of 2019, are produced by Gray's sports division Raycom Sports). WVUE also gave local coverage to two Super Bowls, XXXVI and XXXI, both of which were held at the Louisiana Superdome.
New York Giants	WCBS 21 WTIC 3 (Now WFSB) (Hartford) WNYW 52	1970–Week 3 of 1973 season; 1975–1993 Week 4 of 1973 season–1974 1994–present	From 1956 until 1993, WCBS-TV carried most New York Giants games through the network's coverage of the National Football League. CBS lost the rights to the National Football Conference (NFC) to Fox in 1994, resulting in Giants games moving to WNYW; currently, Giants preseason games are carried by NBC owned-and-operated station WNBC (with WWOR-TV being served as an overflow station if the Summer Olympics conflicts with the preseason schedule). After a 5-year absence, the NFL returned to CBS and WCBS-TV in 1998 through a package of American Football Conference (AFC) games; the station currently airs New York Jets preseason games and most regular season games, along with occasional Giants games, usually when the team plays host to an AFC opponent at MetLife Stadium (or, since 2014, through the 'cross-flex' broadcast rules, any Giants games where they play another NFC team that are moved from Fox to CBS). The station also aired occasional Jets games when they played at home to an NFC team from 1970 to 1993. During the regular season, some Jets games are rotated with WNBC (through NBC Sunday Night Football), WNYW (through NFL on Fox and Thursday Night Football), WABC-TV (through Monday Night Football), WPIX (through Monday Night Football, if WABC-TV is not airing them) and select TNF telecasts not carried by Fox's package it shares with NFL Network), and in rare cases, WWOR-TV (through Monday Night Football). The station has aired the Giants' victory in Super Bowl XXI and loss in Super Bowl XXXV. Since the network established its sports division in 1994, most sporting events carried on channel 5 have been provided through Fox Sports. At that time, the network acquired partial television rights to the NFL and primary rights to the NFC. As a result of this, the station became the unofficial "home" station of the New York Giants airing select telecasts. Among the notable Giants games aired on the station is the team's victory in Super Bowl XLII, when the Giants ended their 17-year title drought by defeating the New England Patriots, who were 18–0 at the time and were one win away from the second perfect season in NFL history. In addition, beginning with the 2018 season, the station aired the team's Thursday night games as part of its newly acquired Thursday Night Football package that it shares with NFL Network (along with Thursday night Jets games). Currently, Giants games are rotated between WCBS-TV (through the NFL on CBS), WABC-TV (Monday Night Football), WPIX (Monday Night Football (if WABC-TV is not airing them)), and especially WNBC (through NBC Sunday Night Football). The station also airs at least two games involving the Jets each year—usually whenever they play an NFC opponent at home. Since 2014, more Jets' games can be shown on WNYW as part of the NFL's new "cross-flex" broadcast rules. WNYW also provided local coverage of Super Bowl XLVIII which was played at MetLife Stadium.
Philadelphia Eagles	WCAU 10 (Now NBC)3 WTXF 292	1970–1993 1994–present	Philadelphia Eagles games primarily aired on Channel 10 back when it was a CBS station and that network carried the National Football Conference, a relationship that began in 1956 when CBS took on the broadcast rights to the pre-merger National Football League. That arrangement lasted until 1994, when Fox acquired the NFC contract and with it, the Eagles games to WTXF. After being traded to NBC, only select games where the Eagles hosted an American Football Conference opponent would air on WCAU from 1995 to 1997, when CBS regained the NFL. Since 2006, Eagles games broadcast nationally by NBC Sports have aired on WCAU, mostly Sunday Night Football contests but also Super Bowl LII, which saw the Eagles clinch their first NFL championship in the modern Super Bowl era. In the summer of 2015, Comcast and the Eagles announced a new TV contract; WCAU began airing the preseason games in the 2015 season after ending its contract with ABC owned-and-operated station WPVI in the 2014 season. Pre-season games are sub-licensed to other stations during Olympic years. In August 1993, Fox shockingly announced its intention to purchase rival independent WGBS-TV (channel 57, now WPSG) and move its programming there in April 1994. As staffers at WTXF-TV continued to reel in the aftermath of that announcement, its corporate parent was undergoing a transition of its own. Only one month later in September, the original Viacom agreed in principle to merge with Paramount. Not long after that, West Chester-based home shopping giant QVC mounted a competing bid and the two firms entered into an intense bidding war, in which Viacom ultimately prevailed in February 1994, with the deal closing on March 11, 1994. Meanwhile, in late October 1993, Paramount announced plans to create a new network, the United Paramount Network (UPN), which it would co-own with Chris-Craft Industries. The initial affiliation plans called for WTXF, which was set to lose Fox to WGBS, becoming the Philadelphia outlet for the new network, which was targeted to launch in January 1995. However, Fox's purchase of WGBS fell through in early 1994 due to the FCC's concerns over Fox's foreign ownership, making it increasingly unlikely that Paramount would want to drop Fox programming from channel 29 (particularly after Fox acquired the rights to show games from the NFL's National Football Conference, including most Philadelphia Eagles games); nonetheless, during the spring, WTXF gradually de-emphasized its Fox affiliation, changing its branding to simply "29".
Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals	KSAZ 10 (known as KTSP from 1988–1993)2 KNXV 15 (Now ABC)	1988–1993; 1994 (beginning in Week 16)–present 1994 (Weeks 1–15)	After emerging from bankruptcy, Great American Broadcasting (renamed Citicasters soon after) put four of its stations (including KSAZ-TV) up for sale, seeking to raise money to pay down debt and fund more acquisitions in radio. KSAZ-TV, along with WDAF-TV in Kansas City, Missouri; WGHP in High Point, North Carolina; and WBRC in Birmingham, Alabama, were sold to New World Communications on May 5, 1994, for $360 million. Just 18 days later, New World announced that twelve of its 15 stations (those it already owned and those it was in the process of acquiring) would switch their varying Big Three network affiliations to Fox, which had been affiliated with KNXV-TV (channel 15). A major catalyst for the Fox-New World deal was the network's newly signed contract with the National Football League's National Football Conference. New World's portfolio, dominated by CBS affiliates, included many stations that had long aired the home games of NFC teams in their home cities, such as KSAZ and the Phoenix Cardinals.
San Francisco 49ers	KPIX 51 KTVU 22	1970–1993 1994–present	From 1956 to 1993, KPIX carried most San Francisco 49ers games locally as part of CBS' broadcast rights to the NFL, which covered the entire pre-merger league until 1970, and the National Football Conference from 1970 to 1993. Two of the 49ers' Super Bowl victories aired locally on KPIX: Super Bowl XVI and Super Bowl XXIV. KPIX lost the 49ers to KTVU (channel 2) in 1994 (a year after fan favorite Joe Montana was traded to the Kansas City Chiefs), when the NFC package moved to Fox. KTVU has also served as the market's primary official television broadcaster of the San Francisco 49ers since 1994, when Fox assumed the contractual rights to air games from the National Football Conference (NFC). The station airs most of the team's regular-season and playoff games that do not have rights held by other broadcast networks (primarily those involving the 49ers' in-conference opponents), as well as another 49ers-related programming during the NFL season including the pre-game show 49ers Pre Game Live (on Sunday mornings), the weekly station-produced sports program KTVU Mercedes-Benz Sports Weekend (on Saturday evenings), magazine program 49ers Total Access (which follows Sports Wrap on Sunday evenings) and the 49ers Red & Gold Specials (comprising four programs focusing on the 49ers' history that air on either KTVU or KICU during the team's training camp and/or preseason). The station aired the team's appearance in Super Bowl LIV. KTVU also airs most Las Vegas Raiders games (a holdover from when the team played in Oakland) in which the team plays host to an NFC team at Allegiant Stadium and starting in 2014, when the NFL instituted its new 'cross-flex' broadcast rules, any Raiders game involving another AFC team that is moved from KPIX to KTVU. The San Francisco/Golden State Warriors also aired many of their basketball games on KTVU on several occasions through the years, first from 1962 to 1963, and later from 1965 to 1968, 1969 to 1983 and the late 1990s to 2001.
Seattle Seahawks	KIRO 7 (Later UPN; now CBS again) KCPQ 132	1976 2002–present	KIRO-TV was also the flagship station for pre-season game broadcasts of the Seattle Seahawks from 1976 to 1980. Play-by-play announcers were Gary Justice (1976–78) and Wayne Cody (1979–85), who was also the station's sports anchor. The station also airs Seahawks games (at least two each season) when the team hosts an AFC team at Lumen Field, via the NFL on CBS (it was previously the station where the majority of the team's games aired in 1976 and again from 1998 to 2001), and beginning in 2014, with the institution of the new "cross-flex" broadcast rule, any games in which they play another NFC team (or an AFC team on the road) that are moved from Fox (KCPQ) to CBS. In 2002, the Seattle Seahawks moved from the American Football Conference to the National Football Conference, to which Fox holds the rights for most games. In June 2014, Fox reached a deal with Cox to trade its stations in Boston and Memphis for Cox's Fox affiliate, KTVU, and associated independent KICU in San Francisco; Fox was also reportedly considering a deal to acquire KIRO, which would have displaced the Fox affiliation from KCPQ. In 2013, Fox had made a similar move in Charlotte, North Carolina (home market of the Carolina Panthers), exercising an option to buy WJZY and move its affiliation there. In 2012, KCPQ became the local broadcast partner of the Seattle Seahawks, airing preseason games and team features.
St. Louis Cardinals	KMOV 4 (known as KMOX from 1970–1986)	1970–1987	KMOX/KMOV served as the unofficial home station of the NFL's St. Louis Cardinals from their arrival in St. Louis in 1960 until the 1987 season, when the team relocated to Phoenix, Arizona. It also aired any games of the city's next NFL team, the Rams from 1998 (when CBS acquired the AFC broadcast package) to 2015 (usually home interconference contests), when the Rams returned to Los Angeles.
St. Louis Rams	KTVI 2	1995–2015	KTVI became the official "home" station of the St. Louis Rams—which had relocated to the city from Los Angeles in 1995 (with the exception of select prime time telecasts on Thursday, Sunday and Monday nights, KTVI broadcast most of the NFL franchise's road games as well as most sold-out home games against other NFC teams). KTVI's status as the team's primary station ended after the 2015 season, as a consequence of NFL team owners voting to approve the Rams' relocation back to Los Angeles effective with the 2016 NFL season, 30–2.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers	WTVT 132 WFTS 28 (Now ABC)	1977–1993; 1994 (beginning in Week 16)–present 1994 (Weeks 1–15)	WTVT affiliated with Fox on December 12, 1994, ending its 39-year affiliation with CBS. This resulted in a three-way affiliation swap that resulted in the market's second Fox affiliate, WFTS-TV (channel 28), affiliating with ABC as part of a deal between the station's owner, the E. W. Scripps Company and ABC that resulted in two other Scripps-owned stations joining the network; longtime ABC affiliate WTSP (channel 10), which was retained by Citicasters, became a CBS affiliate. lbeit with a three-month interruption due to CBS losing the NFC rights (the games instead aired on WFTS for the first three months of Fox's NFC telecasts as a lame-duck affiliate), the switch allowed WTVT to retain its status as the "home" station for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers—a status it held since 1977, when the team moved to the NFC. Under the NFL's contract with Fox (and before it, CBS), WTVT normally airs most of the Bucs' games, including all road games against American Football Conference opponents. However, largely due to the Bucs' lack of success on the field for most of their first 20 years, the team's home games were almost always blacked out locally. This was especially true during the Bucs' darkest period in the 1980s and 1990s, when they had 12 consecutive 10-loss seasons; at one point, no Bucs home games were seen locally from 1982 to 1986—spanning portions of five seasons. Once the Buccaneers began to build a winning team in the late 1990s, along with a new look and the opening of Raymond James Stadium, local television blackouts decreased, thus allowing more games to be shown on WTVT. The blackout rules were lifted by the NFL in 2015 on an experimental basis, and have since been suspended indefinitely, meaning games are now shown on Channel 13 regardless of attendance.
Washington Redskins	WUSA 9 (known as WTOP from 1970–1978 and WDVM from 1978–1986) WTTG 52	1970–1993 1994–present	WTTG has been the primary station for the Washington Football Team (formerly the Washington Redskins) since 1994, when Fox obtained the rights to air NFL games in which a team from the National Football Conference (which the team formerly known as the Redskins are part of) played a road game. WTTG airs all of the team's Sunday afternoon games, unless the game is instead covered by the NFL's contract with CBS (in which case WUSA airs the game). This relationship is limited to network coverage of regular season and postseason games, since WRC-TV and NBC Sports Washington are the official broadcast partners for the team's ancillary programming; beginning in 2018, with Fox's purchase of the package, all Thursday Night Football games are aired on WTTG. Prior to 1994, when the Fox network established its sports division, WTTG aired the team's preseason games and training camp scrimmages during the majority of the 1980s into the early 1990s. Since the league suspended its blackout policy in 2015, WTTG has never blacked out the team's home games, despite the team's issues since the mid-2010s with maintaining sellouts at FedExField.

¹CBS owned television station.

²Fox owned television station.

³NBC owned television station.

See also

• Owned-and-operated television stations in the United States

U.S. television network affiliate switches of 1994

At the time of Fox's bid to claim the NFC package from CBS, most of its affiliates were lower-powered UHF stations. As Fox put together its new sports division to cover the NFL, it wanted to affiliate with VHF stations that had lower channel numbers (channels 2 to 13), more established histories, and carried more value with advertisers.

In the spring of 1994, months after completing the NFL contract, Fox agreed to purchase a 20 percent stake in New World Communications in a multimillion-dollar deal. The key to the deal was that Fox upgraded its affiliate stations in several markets. Before the deal, of the 14 NFC teams at the time, only four—the Los Angeles Rams, New York Giants, San Francisco 49ers, and Washington Redskins—were co-located with VHF Fox affiliates. The Fox stations in New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. are three of the network's original six owned-and-operated outlets. The San Francisco affiliate, KTVU, was owned by Cox Enterprises from 1964 until bought by Fox in the summer of 2014.

Most of the stations involved in the New World deal were located in markets with teams from the NFC, which for television purposes is considered the more valuable (in terms of television) of the two NFL conferences for a variety of reasons, mainly as nine of the ten largest television markets at the time had an NFC team. The lone exception being Boston, whose only NFL team, the New England Patriots, plays in the AFC. Also, most of the NFC teams existed before the formation of the old AFL in 1960, and therefore contain longer histories, rivalries and traditions. During this time, the NFC was also in the midst of a 13-game winning streak against the AFC in the Super Bowl.

Many of the stations slated that switched to Fox were CBS affiliates in markets where NFC teams were located, thus fans would continue to see at least their team's road games (and in many cases, Sunday afternoon home games against other NFC teams) on the same VHF stations that had been carrying the local NFL games since (in some instances) 1956.

In 1995, a year after the Fox switches, St. Louis received an NFC team when the Rams relocated from Los Angeles following the 1994 season, making KTVI the eighth station (and sixth in an NFC market) among the stations involved in the switchover and bringing the total number of NFC teams with VHF Fox affiliates to nine. That same year, the Carolina Panthers joined the NFL as an expansion team, which made WGHP another satellite "home" station for an NFL team as the Panthers are based in Charlotte, which is directly south of the Piedmont Triad region where WGHP is situated.

Because of the time it took for the FCC to approve the NewsCorp investment in New World (as well as waiting for affiliation contracts to expire), that some, "lame duck" affiliates actually carried the NFL on Fox games for most of the 1994 season. For example, most Cowboys games were on KDAF in Dallas and KBVO in Austin, and the Lions were seen on WKBD-TV, while WCGV-TV in Milwaukee carried Packers games until WITI's affiliation deal with CBS ended at the start of December 1994, the only break in WITI's carriage of team games since 1977, when that station took CBS affiliation. As late as the 1995 season, New Orleans Saints games were on WNOL, not WVUE.

Ironically, the New World deal actually led to the Kansas City Chiefs losing its primary station, WDAF-TV. The Chiefs would be relegated to UHF for four years on KSHB, before returning to VHF in 1998, with their games on KCTV.

The network affiliate switches also saw some longtime NBC affiliates move to CBS, and thus two of these stations would regain "home station" status when the AFC package moved to CBS in 1998 – these stations being WBZ-TV in Boston, and KCNC-TV in Denver (both now owned and operated by the CBS network).

Before the AFL-NFL merger

Per the Pro Football Handbook, edited by Don Schiffer, this was the CBS affiliate line-up for each team in 1959:

Baltimore Colts (away games only):

See also: List of television stations in Maryland

• WMAR - Baltimore
• WHP - Harrisburg, Pa.
• WBOC - Salisbury, Md.

Chicago Bears and Chicago Cardinals (home games only):

See also: List of television stations in Illinois

• WBBM - Chicago (though almost always blacked out)
• KGGM - Albuquerque, NM
• KFOA - Amarillo, TX
• KTBC - Austin, TX
• WAFB - Baton Rouge, LA
• KFOM - Beaumont, TX
• KOOK - Billings, MT
• KBOI - Boise, ID
• KBTX - Bryan, TX
• KFVS - Cape Girardeau, MO
• KSPR - Casper, WY
• WMT - Cedar Rapids, IA
• WCIA - Champaign, IL
• KFBC - Cheyenne, WY
• KKTV - Colorado Springs, CO
• KZTV - Corpus Christi, TX
• KRLD - Dallas, TX
• KLZ - Denver, CO
• KRNT - Des Moines, IA
• KROD - El Paso, TX
• WEHT - Evansville, IN
• KNAC - Fort Smith, AR
• WANE - Fort Wayne, IN
• KBLR - Goodland, IN
• KREX - Grand Junction, CO
• KFBB - Great Falls, MT
• KGBT - Harlingen, TX
• KGWL - Houston, TX
• KID - Idaho Falls, ID
• WISH - Indianapolis, IN
• WDXI - Jackson, TN
• KRCG - Jefferson City, MO
• KODE - Joplin, MO
• KCMO - Kansas City, MO
• KHOL - Kearney, NE
• WFAM - Lafayette, IN
• KLFY - Lafayette, LA
• KTAG - Lake Charles, LA
• KGNS - Laredo, TX
• KSWO - Lawton, OK
• WKYT - Lexington, KY
• KOLN - Lincoln, NE
• KTHV - Little Rock, AR
• WHAS - Louisville, KY
• KDUB - Lubbock, TX
• KGLO - Mason City, IA
• WREC - Memphis, TN
• KNOE - Monroe, LA
• WWL - New Orleans, LA
• KOSA - Odessa, TX
• KWTV - Oklahoma City, OK
• WOW - Omaha, NE
• KTVO - Ottumwa, IA
• WMBD - Peoria, IL
• KOOL - Phoenix, AZ
• KHQA - Quincy, IL
• KOTA - Rapid City, SD
• KWRB - Riverton, IL
• WHBF - Rock Island, IL
• WREX - Rockford, IL
• KSL - Salt Lake City, UT
• KCTV - San Angelo, TX
• KENS - San Antonio, TX
• KSLA - Shreveport, LA
• KVTV - Sioux City, IA
• KELO - Sioux Falls, SD
• WSBT - South Bend, IN
• KTTS - Springfield, MO
• KFEQ - St Joseph, MO
• KMOX - St Louis, MO
• KPAR - Sweetwater, TX
• WTHI - Terre Haute, IN
• KCMC - Texarkana, TX
• WIBW - Topeka, KS
• KOLD - Tucson, AZ
• KOTV - Tulsa, OK
• KLIX - Twin Falls, ID
• KWTX - Waco, TX
• KTVH - Wichita, KS
• KYSD - Wichita Falls, TX

Cleveland Browns:

See also: List of television stations in Ohio

• WJW - Cleveland (no home games)
• WBEN - Buffalo, NY
• WKRC - Cincinnati, OH
• WBNS - Columbus, OH
• WHIO - Dayton, OH
• WSEE - Erie, PA
• WHTN - Huntington, WV
• WTAP - Parkersburg, WV
• WVET - Rochester, NY

Detroit Lions:

See also: List of television stations in Michigan

• WJBK - Detroit (no home games)
• WWTV - Cadillac, MI
• WKZO - Kalamazoo, MI
• WJIM - Lansing, MI
• WKNX - Saginaw, MI
• WTOL - Toldeo, OH (no home games)

Green Bay Packers:

See also: List of television stations in Wisconsin

• WBAY - Green Bay (no home games)
• KBMB - Bismarck, ND
• KDIX - Dickinson, ND
• KDAL - Duluth, MN
• WKBT - LaCrosse, WI
• WISC - Madison, WI
• WDMJ - Marquette, MI
• WITI - Milwaukee, WI (no Milwaukee games)
• WCCO - Minneapolis, MN
• KCJB - Minot, ND
• KXJB - Valley City, ND
• WSAU - Wausau, WI

Los Angeles Rams - San Francisco 49ers (A/k/a CBS Pacific Coast Network):

See also: List of television stations in California

• KNXT - Los Angeles (no Rams home games)
• KPIX - San Francisco (no 49ers home games)
• KBAK - Bakersfield, CA
• KVOS - Bellingham, WA
• KHSL - Chico, CA
• KBAS - Ephrata, WA
• KIEM - Eureka, CA
• KFRE - Fresno, CA
• KULR - Kalispell, MT
• KLAS - Las Vegas, NV (no Rams home games)
• KLEW - Lewiston, ID
• KBES - Medford, OR
• KMSO - Missoula, MT
• KEPR - Pasco, WA
• KOIN - Portland, OR
• KOLO - Reno, NV
• KBET - Sacramento, CA (no 49ers home games)
• KSBW - Salinas, CA (no 49ers home games)
• KFMB - San Diego, CA (no Rams home games)
• KIRO - Seattle, WA
• KXLY - Spokane, WA
• KIMA - Yakima, WA
• KIVA - Yuma, AZ (no Rams home games)

New York Giants:

See also: List of television stations in New York

• WCBS - New York (no home games)
• WTEN - Albany, NY
• WLBZ - Bangor, ME
• WNBF - Binghamton, NY
• WNAC - Boston, MA
• WCAX - Burlington, VT
• WCNY - Carthage, NY
• WTIC - Hartford, CT
• WGAN - Portland, ME
• WAGM - Presque Isle, ME
• WPRO - Providence, RI
• WDAU - Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, PA (when Eagles play at home)
• WHYN - Springfield, MA
• WHEN - Syracuse, NY

Philadelphia Eagles (away games only):

See also: List of television stations in Pennsylvania

• WCAU - Philadelphia
• WGAL - Lancaster, PA
• WDAU - Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, PA

Pittsburgh Steelers (away games only):

See also: List of television stations in Pennsylvania

• KDKA - Pittsburgh
• WFBG - Altoona, PA
• WBOY - Clarksburg, WV
• WARD - Johnstown, PA
• WSTV - Steubenville, OH
• WKBN - Youngstown, OH

Washington Redskins:

See also: List of television stations in Washington, D.C.

• WTOP: Washington (no home games)
• WAIM - Anderson, SC
• WAGA - Atlanta, GA
• WROW - Augusta, GA
• WBRC - Birmingham, AL
• WCSC - Charleston, SC
• WBTV - Charlotte, NC
• WDEF - Chattanooga, TN
• WNOK - Columbia, SC
• WRBL - Columbus, GA
• WCBI - Columbus, MS
• WMSL - Decatur, AL
• WTVY - Dothan, AL
• WTVD - Durham, NC
• WOWL - Florence, AL
• WBTW - Florence, SC
• WINK - Fort Myers, FL
• WFMY - Greensboro, NC
• WNCT - Greenville, SC
• WSVA - Harrisonburg, VA
• WJTV - Jackson, MS
• WJXT - Jacksonville, FL
• WJHL - Johnson City, TN
• WBIR - Knoxville, TN
• WMAZ - Macon, GA
• WTOK - Meridian, GA
• WTVJ - Miami, FL
• WKRG - Mobile, AL
• WCOV - Montgomery, AL
• WLAC - Nashville, TN
• WTAR - Norfolk, VA
• WDBO - Orlando, FL
• WRVA - Richmond, VA
• WDBJ - Roanoke, VA
• WTOC - Savannah, GA
• WSPA - Spartanburg, SC
• WTVT - Tampa, FL

Notes

• Many of the stations listed here had multiple network affiliation. For example, WGAL in Lancaster, Pennsylvania mostly carried NBC programming in 1959, but did offer CBS programming at other times, such as Eagles games.
• 1959 only, the Browns dropped - or perhaps supplemented - their Carling/Sports Network (SNI) arrangement by signing up with CBS. The Browns-SNI arrangement (1956-1958) was national in scope. For 1960 and 1961, the Browns-SNI network was reduced to a Midwest regional network.
• In 1960, the Cardinals moved to St. Louis and the Dallas Cowboys played their first season. So the 1959 Chicago network, easily the biggest in 1959, would be reduced dramatically.
  • In 1960, NBC signed contracts to carry the Colts and Steelers. They would carry the Colts and Steelers in 1960 and 1961.
• In 1961, the Minnesota Vikings would enter the NFL and would slice into the Packers network.
• In 1966, the Atlanta Falcons would cut heavily into the Redskins network.
• In 1967, the New Orleans Saints would likely cut into the Cowboys network and perhaps some of the Falcons network.

Regular season games broadcast by local stations

Date	Teams	Time (EST)	Station	Play-by-play	Color commentators
9/28/52	Redskins-Cardinals	9:30	WMAL-Washington	Jim Gibbons
10/4/52	Giants-Eagles	8:00	WABD-New York	Harry Wismer	Kal Ross
10/3/53	Lions-Colts	8:30	WJBK-Detroit	Van Patrick	Bob Reynolds
10/11/53	Colts-Bears	2:00	WMAR-Baltimore	Jimmy Dudley	John MacLean
11/15/53	Colts-Eagles	2:00	WMAR-Baltimore	Jimmy Dudley	John MacLean
9/26/54	Redskins-49ers	5:00	WMAL-Washington	Bob Wolff	Dutch Bergman
10/2/54	Redskins-Steelers	8:00	WMAL-Washington	Jim Gibbons	Morrie Siegel
10/2/54	49ers-Rams	5:00	KOVR-San Francisco	Fred Hessler	Frankie Albert
11/14/54	49ers-Lions	2:00	KOVR-San Francisco	Fred Hessler	Frankie Albert
11/28/54	Redskins-Eagles	2:00	WMAL-Washington	Jim Gibbons	Morrie Siegel
10/8/55	Colts-Packers (Milwaukee)	8:30	WAAM-Baltimore WMAL-Washington	Ernie Harwell	Bailey Goss
10/15/55	Eagles-Steelers	7:30	WFIL-Philadelphia	Byrum Saam
11/5/55	Colts-Lions	7:30	WAAM-Baltimore WMAL-Washington	Ernie Harwell	Bailey Goss
11/5/55	Steelers-Cardinals	8:00	WDTV-Pittsburgh	Joe Tucker	Red Donley
12/4/55	Colts-Rams	5:00	WBAL-Baltimore	Ernie Harwell	Bailey Goss
12/11/55	Colts-49ers	5:00	WMAR-Baltimore	Ernie Harwell	Bailey Goss
10/6/56	Redskins-Eagles	8:00	WTTG-Washington	Jim Gibbons	Morrie Siegel
10/4/58	Redskins-Cardinals	9:15	WTOP-Washington	Jim Gibbons	Eddie Gallaher
9/23/60	Cardinals-Rams	11:15	KMOX-St Louis	Jack Drees	Terry Brennan
10/23/60	Colts-Lions	2:30	WMAR-Baltimore	Chuck Thompson	Bailey Goss
10/30/60	Colts-Cowboys	3:30	WMAR-Baltimore	Chuck Thompson	Bailey Goss
12/11/60	Colts-Rams	4:30	WMAR-Baltimore	Bill Symes	Gil Stratton
9/23/61	Bears-Rams	11:00	Local to CHI	Red Grange	George Connor
10/8/61	Colts-Packers	2:00	WBAL-Baltimore	Chuck Thompson
11/26/61	Colts-Redskins	2:00	WBAL-Baltimore	Vince Bagli
9/16/62	Redskins-Cowboys	2:30	WTOP-Washington	Jim Gibbons	Eddie Gallaher
10/28/62	Redskins-Giants	2:00	WTOP-Washington	Jim Gibbons	Eddie Gallaher
9/14/63	Cardinals-Cowboys	10:00	KTVI-St Louis
11/3/63	Redskins-Cowboys	2:30	WTOP-Washington	Jim Gibbons	Eddie Gallaher
11/10/63	Redskins-Cardinals	2:00	WTOP-Washington	Jim Gibbons	Eddie Gallaher
9/12/64	Cardinals-Cowboys	9:00	Local to STL	Jack Drees	Bill Fischer
9/25/64	Redskins-Giants	8:30	WTOP-Washington	Bill McColgan	Joe Walton
9/28/64	Packers-Lions	8:00	WBAY-Green Bay & WISN-Milwaukee	Earl Gillespie	Tony Canadeo
10/12/64	Cardinals-Colts	8:00	KMOX-St Louis	Jack Drees	Bill Fischer
10/4/65	Cowboys-Cardinals	9:00	KRLD-Dallas (joined in progress at approximately 9:50)	Frank Glieber	John Roach
10/9/65	Giants-Vikings	9:00	WCBS-New York	Jack Whitaker	Frank Gifford
9/16/66	Bears-Rams	11:15	WBBM-Chicago	Bruce Roberts	George Connor
9/30/66	49ers-Rams	11:00	KTVU-Bay Area	Bob Fouts	Gordy Soltau
10/8/66	Steelers-Browns	8:00	WIIC-Pittsburgh	Joe Tucker	Lowell Perry
10/7/67	Steelers-Browns	8:00	KDKA-Pittsburgh (B/W)	Joe Tucker	Frank Glieber and Bill Burns
10/5/68	Steelers-Browns	8:00	KDKA-Pittsburgh	Stu Nahan	Dick Stockton
10/13/69	Eagles-Colts	7:30	WPHL-Philadelphia	Al Meltzer	Tom Brookshier

After the AFL-NFL merger

Date	Teams	Time (EST)	Station	Play-by-play	Color commentators
9/18/70	Cardinals-Rams	11:00	KMOX-St. Louis	Bob Wilson	Ollie Raymond and Jim Bolen
9/19/70	Bears-Giants	8:00	WBBM-Chicago	Brent Musburger	Jerry Kramer
10/3/70	Raiders-Dolphins	8:00	KNEW-San Francisco	Don Klein	Dave Kocourek
10/3/70	Steelers-Browns	9:00	WIIC-Pittsburgh	Sam Nover	Otto Graham and Red Donley
10/10/70	Dolphins-Jets	8:45	WCKT-Miami
10/11/70	Bills-Steelers	1:00	WBEN-Buffalo	Chuck Healy	Dick Rifenburg
10/11/70	Bengals-Browns	1:00	WCPO-Cincinnati	Jack Moran
10/11/70	Steelers-Browns	9:00	WIIC-Pittsburgh	Sam Nover	Otto Graham and Red Donley
10/10/71	Colts-Bills	1:00	WBFF-Baltimore	Jim Karvellas	Kyle Rote
10/10/71	Oilers-Redskins	1:00	KTRK-Houston	Bill Enis	Paul Maguire
10/10/71	Dolphins-Bengals	1:00	WPLG-Miami	Joe Croghan	Dave Kocourek
10/10/71	Steelers-Browns	1:00	WTAE-Pittsburgh	Jay Randolph	Ed Conway
10/17/71	Colts-Giants	1:00	WBFF-Baltimore	Jim Karvellas	Kyle Rote
10/17/71	Bills-Jets	1:00	WBEN-Buffalo	Chuck Healy	Dick Rifenburg
10/17/71	Patriots-Dolphins	1:00	WNAC-Boston	Bill Enis	George Ratterman
10/23/71	Bills-Chargers	Midnight	WKBW-Buffalo	Rick Azar	Paul Maguire
10/15/72	Oilers-Steelers	1:00	KTRK-Houston	Dan Lovett	Jim Norton
10/15/72	Chargers-Dolphins	1:00	KCST-San Diego	Jerry Gross	Mike Smith
10/22/72	Colts-Jets	1:00	WBFF/WJZ-Baltimore	Jim Karvellas	Dave Kocourek
10/22/72	Bills-Dolphins	1:00	WKBW-Buffalo	Rick Azar	Paul Maguire
10/22/72	Patriots-Steelers	1:00	WCVB-Boston	Ken Coleman	Alan Miller
10/22/72	Chargers-Lions	1:00	KCST-San Diego	Bill Enis	Kyle Rote
10/22/72	Browns-Oilers	2:00	WKBF-Cleveland	Jay Randolph	Willie Davis
11/12/72	Saints-Falcons	1:00	Local to New Orleans	Don Criqui	Irv Cross and Andy Musser
11/12/72	Packers-Bears	2:00	WBAY-Green Bay	Roy Broyles	John Campbell
10/14/73	Raiders-Chargers	4:00	KTVU-San Francisco	Don Klein	Gary Park
10/21/73	Patriots-Bears	2:00	WLVI-Boston WGN-Chicago	Ken Coleman	Sam DeLuca
10/21/73	Chiefs-Bengals	4:00	Local	Bill Enis	Kyle Rote
10/6/74	Broncos-Chiefs	4:00	Local to Denver	Ross Porter	Willie Davis
10/13/74	Bills-Colts	2:00	Local to Buffalo
10/13/74	Steelers-Chiefs	2:00	KDKA-Pittsburgh	Dick Stockton	Bill Curry
10/13/74	Raiders-Chargers	4:00	KBHK-San Francisco	Don Klein	Al LoCasale
10/5/75	Raiders-Chargers	4:00	KBHK-San Francisco	Don Klein	Al LoCasale
10/12/75	Bills-Colts	1:00	WKBW-Buffalo	Rick Azar	Paul Maguire
10/12/75	Broncos-Steelers	1:00	KBTV-Denver	John Rayburn	Bob Kurtz and Fred Gehrke
10/12/75	Oilers-Browns	1:00	KDOG-Houston	Charlie Jones	Sam DeLuca
10/12/75	Jets-Vikings	1:00	WCBS-New York WCCO-Minneapolis	Gary Bender	Johnny Unitas
10/25/75	Cardinals-Giants	1:00	KSD-St. Louis	Jay Randolph	Ron Jacober
10/23/76	Falcons-49ers	10:00	WAGA-Atlanta	Bill Hartman	Wayne Walker
9/24/77	Vikings-Buccaneers	8:00	WTCN-Minneapolis	Roger Buxton	Johnny Sauer
9/2/78	Giants-Buccaneers	8:00	WCBS-New York	Steve Albert	Nick Buoniconti
9/9/78	Lions-Buccaneers	8:00	WJBK-Detroit	Ray Lane	Charley Neal
10/15/78	Bills-Oilers	2:00	WKBW-Buffalo	Rick Azar	Paul Maguire
10/15/78	Jets-Colts	2:00	WPIX-New York	Jim Simpson	Paul Warfield
10/15/78	Chiefs-Raiders	4:00	KMBC-TV Kansas City	Jay Randolph	Mike Haffner
9/1/79	Lions-Buccaneers	8:00	WJBK-Detroit	Ray Lane	Ron Kramer and Charley Neal
10/7/79	Chiefs-Bengals	4:00	KCMO-Kansas City	Jack Harry	Ed Budde and Nick Monroe
10/19/80	Chiefs-Broncos	2:00	KCMO-Kansas City KOA-Denver	Don Fortune Larry Zimmer	Paul Maguire Ron Zappolo
9/5/81	Vikings-Buccaneers	8:00	KSTP-Minneapolis WTOG-Tampa	Jim Thacker	John Dockery and Bob Bruce
10/9/83	Chiefs-Raiders	4:00	KCTV-Kansas City	Don Fortune	Len Dawson
10/14/84	Bills-Seahawks	4:00	WKBW-Buffalo KING-Seattle	Rick Azar Phil Stone	Marv Levy Reggie Rucker

Local preseason television coverage

Although several exhibition games are broadcast on television nationally, most exhibition games are in-house productions of the individual teams (often in association with a local broadcaster, typically with the rights to Thursday and Monday night games during the regular season; under the NFL's anti-siphoning policy, all away games and sold-out home games featuring the local team scheduled to air on the NFL Network or ESPN have the cable channel in question blacked out in the local market of that team, and the NFL sells the games to local broadcast stations only via broadcast syndication), and syndicated to other local stations in the region, which usually includes a coach's show package during the regular season. NFL Network also airs coverage of exhibition games, either live or tape delayed, switching between the home and visiting team feeds after halftime.

Exhibition games are almost exclusively played at night due to hot summer weather, and are frequently scheduled based on local convenience (e.g. games on the west coast tend to start at 7:00 p.m. PT/10:00 p.m. ET). The league's blackout restrictions apply, although stations are allowed to play the game on a tape delay if the game does not sell out (unlike the regular season policy, when rights revert to NFL Films). Many more exhibition games fail to sell out than do regular-season games.

See also

• List of cable television National Football League over-the-air affiliates

Affiliates

• List of CBS television affiliates (by U.S. state)
  • List of CBS television affiliates (table)
• List of NBC television affiliates (by U.S. state)
  • List of NBC television affiliates (table)
• List of Fox television affiliates (by U.S. state)
  • List of Fox television affiliates (table)
  • Fox affiliate switches of 1994
• NFL on television#Blackout policies

Over-the-air TV sports broadcasters

• Historical Major League Baseball over-the-air television broadcasters
• Historical NBA over-the-air television broadcasters
• Historical NHL over-the-air television broadcasters

External links

• NFL Team Markets (CBS 'AFC' and FOX 'NFC')

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