CBS Sports Says Goodbye To The NBA (1990 NBA Finals Game 5 Postgame)
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2012
- CBS Sports Says Goodbye To The NBA During The Postgame Following Game 5 Of The NBA Finals Between The Detroit Pistons And The Portland Trail Blazers
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The CBS era was the golden of basketball on the court and the silver era of basketball on television. The NBC era was the silver era of basketball on the court and the golden era of basketball on television. The soul of the NBA died the night the NBC era ended.
Well said. Apparently nbc is going to try again in 2024. I’m not so sure it’s the station as it is the broadcast crews. I’m sure nbc or cbs can bring back their promos etc but you can’t bring back Dick Stockton or Marv Alberts of the world
@@bobbyjohnson9409nbc has a bigger shot in getting the NBA again because Disney are losing money
I think the NBA on TNT took over after NBC was done.
NBC didn't do a bad job with the NBA, especially since they got Marv Albert. However ABC trainwrecked it.
@@sillygoose635 Yes they did
@@damienkirksey7026 ABC-ESPN is bush league coverage🤢🤢🤢🤢
@@sillygoose635 ABC coverage is garbage
I loved the NBA on NBC. Agreed - I’ve never like it on ABC.
NBC was Better than CBS.
CBS and NBC had the best NBA coverage between mid 1970's and early 2000's
Marvin Gaye's EPIC rendition of the national anthem at the 1983 ASG to close it out.
LAST MONTH WAS THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH
This was a sad day when CBS lost the NBA CBS always had the best announcers
I hope after the contract of ABC, CBS might get the NBA contract . I hope also Jim Nantz might cover the NBA finals
A lot more entertaining than today’s ABC or TNT. Too much theatrics these days. Less down to earth easy to listen sportscasters
@@lakerboy16 dull is entertaining?
@@sillygoose635 in my opinion
@@sillygoose635 Commentators should stick to the game instead of talking things not relevant to their coverage. They always chat about players who were no longer playing in that round or the latest "drama" scoop of certain players
Dick Stockton was and is still one of the best.
Kim Martin Wow you really know your sports your an amazing woman
I'm sorry about that
And Kevin Harlan as well. And as for Craig Sager, Ahmad Rashad, David Aldridge, Doris Burke and Jim Gray, they are the best NBA sideline reporters ever, although Sager has been battling cancer for two years now.
budkin He sucks and always has sucked! Every 1980s shot he called was substituted with the local radio voice (Johnny Most (Boston), Chick Hearn (Los Angeles Lakers), and others) because he was a boring, lifeless stiff!!!
The NBA is a sport with ACTION!!! If you wanted Dick to find his place, his ass in a golf course would have been more than appropriate!!
Fuck Dick!!! He's not even the best Dick announcer ever. Stockton 8 million light years behind Dick Enberg and anyone who sucks up to Dick Stockton can wave goodbye to their sex life!!!
Dick Stockton = One-Minute Man!
As Missy Elliott once sung
🎵Break me off, show me what you got🎵
🎵Cause I don't want, no one minute man🎵
budkin he will always be Dick
The NBA on CBS was a part of my childhood, teen, and very early adult years!! Was only 22 when the NBA left for NBC. I STILL MISS IT!
I miss the NBA on NBC, but at least they still have the Olympic package and they play the NBA on NBC there for Olympic basketball.
@@CarbideSixRoundball Rock the old NBC theme by John Tesh is also used on FOX College Basketball telecasts
From Dick Stockton (CBS) to Marv Albert (NBC).
From "Basket Counts and the Foul" to "YES!! And It Counts!"
From Verne Lundquist (CBS) to the late Dick Enberg (NBC).
From Pat O'Brien (CBS) to Bob Costas (NBC).
From "The Basketball Show" to "NBA Showtime".
Actually, I think Pat O'Brien's counterpart would be more like Amhad Rashad. Brent Musberger would be Bob Costas' counterpart.
As far as “NBA Showtime,” that term originated and came from the 1980s “Showtime Lakers!” THEN we got “NBA Showtime”
Hard to believe it's been 30 years since CBS last carried telecasts of the NBA. The NBA and CBS were a good fit.
This ending started that great run of NBA on NBC. Nbc broadcasting had the excellent promos and presentations that made you wanna watch basketball.
RIP: John Havlicek (1940-2019).
I did know that
Hondo
NBC did a great job after CBS. ABC/ESPN, well, not so much.
Agree, TNT is good.
ABC/ESPN didn't exactly inherit a great situation when it first took over the nba from NBC in 2002. Read the final season of NBA on NBC. It will tell you all you need to know.
Indeed, they did; Pistons 92, Trailblazers 90; game date: June 14, 1990.
Nah, ABC/ESPN is alright.
@Karl M That would be something. I’m surprised the NBA hasn’t thought of that idea.
I remember the tribute well. And it ended with the best national anthem performance of all time. I could watch this 100 times (and probably will).
CBS and NBC are light years better than ABC. NBC to me is the gold standard of the NBA but CBS was pretty darned great too.
This marked the end of the Bird-Magic-Isiah era that dominated the 80's. The next great dynasty was set to begin on NBC with MJ and the Bulls.
MJ and Bulls played weak ass competition. Wouldn't have stood a chance against showtime Lakers with Kareem, Birds Celtics, Moses Malone, Dr.J and Barkleys 76ers and Jazz with Mark Eaton.
@@billthegoatrussell6608 If anyone is playing against weak ass competition it's LeBitch Blames loser ass!
@@chrisdrake7689 Damn LeBron must live rent free in your head.
@@billthegoatrussell6608 Don't forget the choke job by LeCry Blames in the 2011 Finals against the Mavs 😂 lol LeBitch won't and neither will Jason Terry!
@@chrisdrake7689 I don't even think he is GOAT so Idk what's the point of bringing him up.
We know that we leave the NBA in good hands
CBS wishing NBC Good luck with the NBA
Would love to have NBA basketball back on this network again...
On either CBS or NBC.
Or both.
Or maybe Fox sports
@@damienchance2622 Gus Johnson calling NBA Games👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
Interesting fact they couldn’t show the Larry Bird steal in the Detroit game because it wasn’t on CBS it was on TBS.
It was a joy watching the NBA on CBS. And the greatest collection of talent to ever play the game. But you know what? The 90's were great as well. And NBC did a great job of covering the NBA. The Admiral, Sir Charles, Shaq, The Mailman, the return of Magic, Hakeem, and of course, Jordan and DA BULLSSS!
I hope in 2026 season, NBA would be back on CBS with Jim Nantz as lead play by play
And Greg gumbel too
@@damienchance2622If he’s still with us at that time.
Dick Stockton and Hubie Brown. It doesn't get any better than that.
Marvin Gaye's iconic rendition of singing the Star Spangled Banner is such a strong part of NBA history! Beautiful!
RIP Sandy Grossman, you were one the of best sports TV directors of all-time!
And another longtime CBS Sports director Anthony "Tony" Verna, inventor of Instant Replay and father of FremantleMedia staffer Tracy Verna-Soiseth.
Dude, that was The Last Waltz from The Band. That's a great song
4:25, Marvin Gaye's rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner," the first music video ever played on VH1 before it became a reality-based channel.
Dana Long its like the last waltz
That version is simply amazing.
@@cbod14 better than R-Kelly lol
I never knew that, interesting fact. VH1 was great before they sold out to reality TV- not only great videos but "Behind the Music" and specials like Shatner doing the 100 greatest One-hit Wonders were fun to watch, also.
Terrible day in the history of the NBA. Nobody did it like CBS.
The biggest mistake CBS ever made! They missed the whole Jordan ride, and imagine what their ratings would've been for their biggest shows with the Jordan NBA leading it in? The loss of the NBA forshadowed the loss of the NFC package, and we know that hurt....Big Time!
AND...they did it to acquire the MLB package from NBC and that ended up being a sunk cost they walked away from just five years later.
Totally agree.
@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 and overpaid for the rights to the Winter Olympics which with the exception of the 1994 Games in Lilihammer with the Harding/Kerrigan drama did not draw very good ratings. In fact for 1992 and 1998 Winter Games the ratings were much better on cable via Turner Sports than they were on CBS. This was the primary reason the IOC went with NBC to cover both the Summer and Winter Games ever since.
@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 One of the biggest blunders ever.
@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 And really CBS Sports hasn’t really been right since losing the NFL the first time. Yes they got it back but it’s not the same.
Pat Summerall called the first season for the NBA on CBS and he also called a few NCCA games for CBS in the mid-80s. He said Basketball was his favorite sport. He truly was a talented man. Rest In Peace ❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Summerall was my favorite national play by play announcer. He was unbiased, witty, and versatile. He was awesome at doing the PGA Tour as well.
You knew when Summerall was the announcer for a sporting event, it was big time.
@@lousanto1054 Very true👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
The end of an era. Curtain closes on the NBA ON CBS for the last time. Watching all those games on CBS was a family tradition during my childhood years. Just watching and listening to the legendary duo of Dick Stockton and Hubie Brown announcing and commenting on those games made watching the NBA ON CBS more exciting. Of all the games I've watched over all these years in my life, Dick Stockton will forever be known as Mr. NBA for his distinctive familiar sounding voice that made watching those games on CBS so fun.
Pat Summerall was the original play by play NBA on CBS announcer in 1973-74 when CBS got the rights.
Remember it was on pre broadcast till 1983 when the NBA on CBS went live
My Detroit Pistons won the last game ever on CBS clinching the 1990 NBA FINALS 🏆
The microwave made the last shot ever on the NBA on CBS.
But the nexr year the jordan/bulls era begsn.
Over 30 years later this still brings tears to my 👀
This year should have been 47 years of memories thanks for the memories
Bring back THE NBA ON CBS!!!
na bring back the NBA ON NBC
I WAS SO HURT WHEN SAMSON MADE THAT SHOT BACK THEN!
So were Celtics fans.
Nice Music. In the days when all sport was free,but limted. From the New Forest, UK GOD BLESS!
NBA ON CBS SHOULD BEEN ON FOR 46 YEARS WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GREAT RUN
CBS had excellent, excellent, excellent coverage until '88-89. it peaked in '87-'88.
That was sad when CBS lost the NBA package to NBC, CBS"s coverage was great so were the announcers. But it signaled a change when the 90's came in as professional sports leagues were changing television contracts. MLB moved to CBS that year from NBC, The NBA went too NBC that following season. The NFL moved to FOX in '94 from CBS. Baseball came back to NBC in "96 for a few seasons, Fox also signed on with baseball. The NFL returned too CBS in 98 but left NBC without the NFL. The NHL was jumping from network to network. Some decade that was in pro sports.
You are totally right about the NHL in the 1990's. They started the decade on SportsChannel America which was an absolute failure because large portions of the country couldn't see games. The only way you could watch the NHL without a cable subscription or even with one in many cases in the early 1990's was to watch the NHL All Star Game on NBC or live in an area that had access to CBC & Hockey Night in Canada. Then from 1993-1995 ESPN had exclusive rights and then in 1995 FOX joined them for 4 years until 1999, when ESPN regained exclusive rights and put games on ABC. ESPN then lost the rights during the 2004-2005 lockout & NBC got the exclusive rights from 2006-2021. Now the NHL is back on ESPN/ABC & TNT gets the rights to the NHL for the first time.
As a baseball Yankee fan, CBS was decent for baseball but Fox is better obviously. Joe Buck era and the current one with Arod, Jeter, Ortiz, etc. NBC sucked for MLB. But NBC was better for NBA. MLB better for Fox
THIS YEAR SHOULD HAVE BEEN 46 YEARS THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES
I may have been a baby when CBS last aired NBA games, but I'd rather watch it on there or NBC, rather than the greedy clowns of ESPN/ABC Sports. CBS and NBC did a terrific job in airing games and their coverage was top notch. Did CBS air Lakers, Celtics and Sixers almost all the time? YES. Did NBC have a love-fest Jordan and the Bulls' all the time? YES. Every network had it's faults airing the NBA, but CBS and NBC were LEGENDARY. ESPN/ABC is a joke.
The two networks are going to have a love fest with the dominant teams of their respective eras. The Bulls first trip to the finals would've been that year, if they'd been able to win a game at the Palace, since they won all 3 games of that ECF series against the Pistons in Chicago. But they still weren't quite good enough to beat the bad boys that year, which would change the next year, when NBC picked up right where CBS left off.
ABC/ESPN isn't a joke.
@@sillygoose635 compared to NBC and CBS
@@sillygoose635 It really has been a joke. They could care less about the NBA.
@@brianmears3388 In those years, though CBS was running many playoff games on tape delay after the late newscasts even in the finals. NBC was a step up with a commitment to prime time finals coverage, the Christmas games, etc. Plus "Roundball Rock" and Costas.
Brent musburger was the man
CBS need to bring back the NBA
Maybe in 2024 when the current NBA TV contracts are up with Turner and ESPN and can be bid on. CBS has reemerged in recent years as a significant player due to acquiring the rights to soccer's UEFA Champions League and are actively bidding for the US rights to the English Premier League which is one of the biggest sports leagues globally when their contract runs out with NBC in 2022. This is in addition to keeping the NFL, PGA Tour and NCAA March Madness although they will be losing SEC football in 2023.
@@chrisguardiano6143 WOW!!!!!
It's a shame the video cuts off just before the word "brave," but I think that was a local station issue.
I would love see CBS or NBC get to cover the NBA games again. ESPN/ABC is so stupid and overrated with annoying commentators and analysts.
This I agree with.
I remember watching this following the Pistons winning the title. Sad.
CBS and NBC should share the NBA coverage.
That would be very interesting.
@@steveestrada9287 I’m dying for the NBA to get rid of ESPN. They’re helping kill the NBA🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿
THIS YEAR ON NBA ON CBS SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON FOR 48 YEARS WHAT A GREAT RUN
Interesting thing is that in Baltimore, WBAL-TV 11 went from being a CBS Affiliate to being a NBC Affiliate in 1995.
They were NBC back in the 60s and 70s also before Baltimore's Big 3 channels started playing musical chairs with CBS/ABC/NBC.
@petecapravos617 At this time though WBAL was with CBS.
Nakakalungkot talaga ang pagkawala ng NBA on CBS.
CBS had the best NBA coverage.
From Dan Robertson (voice of CBS Sports from 1974-1993) to Mitch Phillips (later the late Jim Fagan from 1991-2002 also the original voice of NBA Action from 1991-2004) (voice of NBC Sports from late 1970s until 1993).
It’s funny after a brief interlude of the 90s while the bulls dominated, the same teams that dominated in the 80s and 70s seem to return in the 2000’s
The beginning of the best era of NBA....
Actually depending on whom you ask, the NBA's best era if you will began in 1984 with the first of three Finals involving Larry Bird's Celtics and Magic Johnson's Lakers. Bird and Magic are generally credited for revitalizing the NBA (it wasn't that long before that CBS didn't have a problem broadcasting the Finals on tape delay after the late local news) in the '80s.
Why Bee McNoMistake best era was from about 1984 to 1993
actually the end of the best era of NBA
I remember the tape delayed era of the late 70's-early 80's.
End of the best era. 2nd best was 90s
Dick Stockton retiring. He is one of the best ever.
He retired????
I would love for CBS and Turner Sports to team up on the NBA like they have done w/ March Madness. They could also put some games on CBS Sports Net to bolster its line-up/credibility.
And I would also like Tracy Wolfson and Allie LaForce to share sideline reporting duties like they did for NCAA March Madness and Super Bowl 50! After all, The Wolf and Allie are the best thing to ever hit CBS!
They can't cause ABC and ESPN have broadcasting rights to the NBA. Would be nice though
They might be teaming up to do UEFA Champions League matches when CBS begins their 4 year deal next season because UEFA has insisted that between 40-50% of Champions League matches need to be on TV. This puts constraints on CBS's ambitions to put matches on their subscription streaming platform All Access. Turner with TBS, TNT and TruTV would be able to help CBS fulfill this requirement.
1:51 RIP Tommy H. Not a Celtic fan but showing respect.
I think what also may have driven the NBA away from CBS was CBS spending a lot of money (and perhaps in hindsight, overpaying) to land Major League Baseball away from NBC & ABC (beginning in 1990) and (to a lesser extent) all of the Winter Olympics of the '90s.
Terrence Clay The NBA’s popularity was skyrocketing in the late 80’s and David Stern wanted more exposure which means he wanted more than 15 games a year shown on network television and CBS didn’t have the room to broadcast double and triple headers every Sunday like NBC could because of their NFL and college basketball coverage and they signed deals with baseball and the Winter Olympics making it even more difficult to accommodate the NBA’s request for more over the air telecasts so they were prettymuch destined to cut ties with the NBA
Yep..the decision to move to NBC was made at the end of 1989. By the 1990 NBA all star game, the announcers(Dick Stockton included) were already announcing the move. I first found out through ESPN at the end of '89. Before game 5 of the finals began, Dick Stockton announced if the Pistons won(they were up 3-1), the NBA on CBS would be over.
Dick Stockton, Tom Heinsohn, Brent Musberger, Pat O'Brien, Bill Russell, Rick Barry, Hubie Brown. Billy Cunningham. So many good games called by these guys. Their voices are still familiar to me. I will listen to a game sometimes at night and it relaxes me.
NBC got the NBA JUST as the Bulls were beginning their Championship dynasty, and the greatest sports run in history, the golden age of the sport.
The 1980s were more competitive, whereas the 1990s were mostly dominated by one team
@@jaliscodiss 1990's basketball was very low scoring and expansion diminished talent. Low point for NBA. 84-83 final score of NBA was just sad. 69 point games 77 point games....just ridiculous.
@@scottdavidson7001 No
@@jaliscodiss and 80's was mainly between two teams Lakers and Celtics
next year should have been 48 years on nba on cbs thanks for the memories
Bro you commented on here 10 times, and 9 of them were about how it “should have been CBS’s 47th year”. We got it, thanks. Go sit down dude, you’re ruining the comment section.
@@tigernike23 , Why is this freaking freak commenting so many times? Doesn’t he have a freaking life to live ! On a lazy Saturday afternoon, I am looking for Lakers news ! I can’t believe,that the Lakers’ front office dismantled a very defensive-minded championship team (Javale McGee,Carusso, KCP, Khuzma, Dwight Howard, etc…),for a team made up of old players,that were way,way,way past their primes (Carmelo,Ariza , Westbrick, etc…).
I can’t believe ,that these people get paid handsomely,only to dismantle Championship-caliber teams !
MANY MEMORIES
Basketball died after this year. League changed the rules and got watered down. 80s in my opinion was the best era of basketball.
Lol what
NBC should get it back some day
2024-25 more likely for both NBC and CBS forget fox and screw ABC.
That will never happen because ABC is owned by Disney.
@@hitman321100 Sadly…..
At the time my beloved Blazers had just been booted in 5 games by Detroit so I never really saw this before. Sports still had a purity even then that is now gone forever.
If Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery tie the knot, maybe we will get the NBA on CBS back. CBS coverage might be limited during the regular season due to other commitments, but they should be able to ramp it up after The Masters in April.
4:23 USA National Anthem at the 1983 NBA All Star Game.
This was really the golden era of nba with the great rivalry of Lakers and Celtics and Pistons of the 80's. It went downhill after that.
For the uninitiated, this comment was completely facetious
Well I'm from the NBC era so this is the era rite b4 mines
was this also the reasoning behind why brent musburger disappeared from cbs around this time??
They should bring the NBA back to CBS
From a personell standpoint, CBS might be better equipped for the NBA, especially now that Marv Albert is aboard. Its weird because CBS was rumored, in 1987 to be pursuing Marv Albert. Never happened though.
Dick Stockton is passing the torch to his NBC counterpart, Marv Albert.
Dick Stockton was my all time favorite NBA play by play guy.
Mine too.
ABC's coverage doesn't seem as majestic, focused, or classy as the later CBS years or NBC's. They seem more or less, like ESPN buying time on their sister network (via Disney) since the TV contract required at least 15 regular season slots and the NBA Finals on broadcast network TV. If ESPN had it their way, they would want all of the games on there.
ABC keep Broadcasting NBA favoritism teams every year..smh
Anybody know what the main music in the video is? (I mean, the song before Marvin Gaye's National Anthem; It sounds like something from "The Godfather" trilogy.)
Theme From The Last Waltz. From The Band's last concert, and the film, The Last Waltz. Beautiful film from Martin Scorsese!
When TNT came around at the end of 1988, you had more competition chipping away at the NBA on CBS. Not to mention TBS was still carrying games. CBS got caught in a squeeze. From the beginning(1973-74), they didnt start televising every Sunday until after the X-Mas game. During the tape delayed era(pre Bird-Magic)they would televise a few FRI night early season games tape delay, then in the new year is when weekly coverage started. When Bird and Magic came in, it still took a few years for the public to "catch on" or "come back"(1980-81, Bird-Magic's 2nd yr, NBA ratings were at an all time low). The NBA finally picked up steam again in the 81-82 season, especially the playoffs, none of the '82 finals games were tape delayed(i know, because i watched every game). By the time Michael Jordan came to the league(1984-85), CBS started carrying the NCAA and the tournament, the original NBA on ESPN was around, the USA network and TBS were televising NBA games, so if you had cable(like my family did), CBS was on the back burner(at least during the week). I remember during timeouts of the CBS telecast, there would be commercials for the CBS Sports Spectacular and in the later years, they would go over to the major golf tournaments(for a few minutes) so it looked like CBS had too much on it's plate, not to mention the MLB contract, which turned out to be a disaster.
elwin38 USA only carried a few NBA games during the mid 80’s as their main sports were the NHL until ESPN took over the US rights in 1986 and MLB until ESPN created SNB in 1987
To this day CBS covered the NBA better than any other network
3:09 lmao is that Jack Nicholson
I miss the nba on cbs you can blame cable
no, you fucking cant.
Blame CBS for picking up MLB and not continue the NBA and then the NFL in 93 (only to return in 98) then MLB in 93 Haha and NASCAR in 2000.
Mike Burks = Genius
Don't worry old-schoolers, the NBA TV rights are up for bid this summer!
next year should have been on for 48 years on cbs great run
CBS aired tape delayed NBA Finals games at 11:30 p.m. EDT until the last few years of their contract. Lol. Could you imagine that today? Also morning on the west coast NBA Finals games on some weekends.
0:55 Anybody know the name of this song?
Randy Dubin I think somebody has already written it in the comments. It's the song "The Last Waltz" from "The Band" wich appears in the great Scorsese documentary about "The Band". The documentary is also titled "The Last Waltz". On UA-cam you should find the song, if you search for The Last Waltz ending/outro, but also look for other clips from the documentary. It's worth it.
I think that also CBS couldn't provide as much coverage of the league as the NBA wanted, particularly in the winter and the spring. At that time CBS also had all of the NCAA Tournament and pretty much all of the big golf tournaments.
And the start of the NASCAR season as well especially the Daytona 500
The Larry Bird steal was not part of this montage because the game aired on TBS. I bet CBS so wished they had carried that legendary game.
I'm saying this, based on the sports forums I've looked at and some of the games that I currently have on DVD.
The music choice here is blowing my mind. It seems that CBS was totally unattuned to the average basketball fan, even those in 1990.
49 YEARS GREAT RUN
Missed them games on Cbs.
True, but NBC didn't do a bad job either. ABC on the other hand...
ABC keep Broadcasting favortism teams in the NBA...smh
This is the day basically nba handed over the league to nbc and MJ, funny how Bulls dynasty began as NBC took over
"We've seen Michael Jordan take flight". Yes, but you missed his times in the finals and NBA titles. That would be on NBC.
Great run
...and the NBA was never the same again.
It got better
No
Damien Kirksey… no it didn’t. The golden era ended here in 1990.
@@Skier10 that cap
@@Skier10 NBA ON NBC was the bomb
I miss the NBA On CBS I hope the NBA On CBS Sports will be back soon
idk, ABC has a tight lock on NBA rights.
What station is the NBA on these days? As you can tell I dont watch the NBA anymore. Is it ESPN? They ruin everything.
Sillysoft Yep they do! All the announcers are Dick Stockton wannabes with the sex appeal of men who aren't even qualified to bang Missy Elliot.
ESPN/ABC and Turner Sports.
ESPN/ABC, TNT, and NBA-TV.
You're not missing out on anything
ABC was the original home of the NBA before CBS during the 60's-70's, in a way its returned home.
NBC was the first major network to broadcast the nba first in the late 50s early 60s. The real first ever to do so was Dumont
I think ESPN may keep Friday games & Turner Sports keep Thursday but CBS may pull the big bucks to have the games on weekends & CBS Sports may do Wed.. But don't forget Turner Sports/CBS has the NCAA package also.
ESPN can keep the Wesnday and Friday games take the Sunday off ABC and put it on CBS or NBC
The 80s ended for sure here