The following is a list of the nationaltelevision andradio networks and announcers that have broadcastAmerican League Championship Series games over the years. It does include any announcers who may have appeared on local broadcasts produced by the participating teams.

• Beginning in2022, the new 7-yearMajor League Baseball contract called for bothFox network andFS1 to air morepost-season games (two Divisional Series and one best-of-7 League Championship Series) while keeping the regular season structure intact. The deal saw Fox continue to air theAll-Star Game and theWorld Series exclusively. However, Fox has expanded digital rights and will air at least two of the first four League Championship Series games and all seventh games in its league from 2020 to 2028.^[10][11][12] Also,TBS will airTuesday Night Baseball for the duration of the contract.^[13][14]
• 2023 –Matt Vasgersian filled in forKevin Burkhardt as pregame host for Games 1 and 6 due to Burkhardt calling theSan Francisco 49ers–Cleveland Browns Week 6 andDetroit Lions–Baltimore Ravens Week 7 NFL games forFox.
• Beginning with the 2022 postseason, MLB allowedSportsnet, the home network of theToronto Blue Jays, to produce their own broadcasts of the team's games inCanada rather than a mere simulcast of the American network feed or anMLB International-produced broadcast.^[15]
• 2025 –Matt Vasgersian filled in forKevin Burkhardt as pregame host for Games 1 and 6 due to Burkhardt calling theLos Angeles Rams–Baltimore Ravens Week 6 andWashington Commanders–Dallas Cowboys Week 7 NFL games forFox.

• 2011 –Terry Francona filled forTim McCarver for the first two games ofFox's coverage during the ALCS because McCarver was recovering from a minor heart procedure.^[24][25]
• Beginning in2014, whenFox Sports began a new television contract withMajor League Baseball,FS1 airs 40 regular season MLB games (mostly on Saturdays), along with up to 15post-season games (eight Divisional Series games and one best-of-7 League Championship Series). The deal resulted in a reduction of MLB coverage on theFox network, which will air 12 regular season games, theAll-Star Game, and theWorld Series.^[26][27]
• 2014 –Mike Bordick, a color commentator for theOrioles' regular-season telecasts, andSteve Physioc, a play-by-play man for theRoyals' TV/radio broadcasts, were employed as field-level commentators forTBS' coverage along withMatt Winer.^[28][29]
  • The start of Game 1 was delayed by four minutes due to floodlights from TBS' pre-game show set not being turned off in time.^[30]
• 2016 –Sportsnet, a property ofToronto Blue Jays ownerRogers Communications, aired all games in Canada using the TBS feeds.^[31][32]
• 2018 –Brian Anderson took over forErnie Johnson as the lead play-by-play man for TBS, after Johnson dropped out of TBS’ postseason coverage entirely after announcing that he had been diagnosed with blood clots in both of his legs. Anderson would’ve taken Johnson's place anyway due to the latter'sInside the NBA duties forTNT.^[33][34]
• 2019 –Joe Davis called play-by-play for Game 4 due toJoe Buck callingThursday Night Football forFox.^[35]

• Game 6 of the2000 ALCS is the last baseball game thatNBC televised until a game between theBoston Red Sox andChicago White Sox on May 8, 2022.^[39] InHouston, due to the coverage of the2000 U.S. presidential debates,KPRC-TV elected to carryNBC News' coverage of the debate whileKNWS-TV carried NBC's final baseball game.
• In2001, Game 5 of theNLCS and Game 4 of theALCS were split betweenFox andFox Sports Net. This came off the heels of Fox airing anNFLdoubleheader that particular day (October 21).
• In2002, Game 1 of theNLCS and Game 2 of theALCS were split betweenFox andFox Sports Net. The regional split was done in order for Fox to avoid televising a weekday afternoon game.
• In2003, Game 1 of theALCS and Game 2 of theNLCS were split betweenFox andFX.
• In2004, Game 1 of theNLCS and Game 2 of theALCS were split betweenFox andFox Sports Net. Also in2004, Game 5 of the ALCS ran way into the time slot of Game 5 of the NLCS. As a result, the first seven innings of the NLCS game were shown onFX.
• In2005, Game 1 of theNLCS and Game 1 of theALCS were split betweenFox andFX.
• Game 2 of the2006 ALCS was originally intended to air onFX, but theNLCS game that night (originally intended to air onFox) was rained out. FX showed the movieAny Given Sunday instead.
  • In2006,Fox firedSteve Lyons from their baseball coverage altogether following what they saw insensitive comments made aboutHispanics during the Game 3 broadcast. During Game 3, Lyons' broadcast colleagueLou Piniella, who is of Spanish descent, made an analogy involving the luck of finding a wallet, and then briefly used a couple of Spanish phrases. Lyons responded by saying that Piniella was "hablaing Espanol" --Spanglish for "speaking Spanish"—and added, "I still can't find my wallet. I don't understand him, and I don't want to sit close to him now."^[40][41][42]
• On October 18, 2008,TBS missed most of the first inning of Game 6 of that year'sAmerican League Championship Series, with viewers getting a rerun ofThe Steve Harvey Show instead.^[43] TBS picked up the game just prior to the last out in the bottom of the first, with announcerChip Caray apologizing to viewers for "technical difficulties".
• Although not an active field reporter duringFox's coverage of the2009 ALCS,Kenny Albert still presided over the championship presentation and postgame interviews in the pennant-winningNew York Yankees' clubhouse.

• The1990 postseason started on a Thursday,^[52] whileWorld Series started on a Tuesday due to the brieflockout.
• In1991,CBS didn't come on the air for baseball for weeknight LCS telecasts until 8:30 p.m.ET. Instead, they opted to show programming such asRescue 911 at 8 p.m. rather than a baseball pregame show.^[53]
• Throughout Game 2 of the1992 ALCS, Jim Kaat was stricken with a bad case of laryngitis.^[54][55] As a result,Johnny Bench had to come over from theCBS Radio booth and finish the game with Dick Stockton as a "relief analyst."^[56] There was talk that if Kaat's laryngitis did not get better,Don Drysdale was going to replace Kaat on television for the rest of ALCS, while Bench would continue to work on CBS Radio.^[57]
  • CBS' coverage of the 1992 LCS led to conflicts with thepresidential debates that year.^[58] CBS didn't cover one of the debates because Game 4 of the ALCS, went into extra innings. By the time it ended, the debate was almost over.
• The1994 American League Championship Series was planned to air onNBC. However, those plans were scrapped when astrike caused the entire postseason to be canceled.
• The rather messy1995 arrangement was courtesy of "The Baseball Network", which was Major League Baseball's in-house production facility.ABC andNBC (who essentially, distributed the telecasts rather than produce them by themselves like in the past) shared the same on-air graphics and even the microphone "flags" had the "Baseball Network" logo on it with the respective network logo. In addition, the first four games of both of the1995 League Championship Series were regionally televised.^[59][60]

• 1983 marked the last year that the local flagship television stations for the competing teams were allowed to produce their own League Championship Series broadcasts.Bill Macatee hosted the pregame shows with analystDon Sutton^[81] forNBC.
• Had the1984 ALCS between theDetroit Tigers andKansas City Royals gone the full five games (the last year that the League Championship Series was a best-of-five series), Game 5 on Sunday October 7, would have been a 1 p.m.ET time start instead of being inprime time. This would have happened because one of thepresidential debates^[82] betweenRonald Reagan andWalter Mondale was scheduled for that night. In return,ABC was going to broadcast the debates instead of a baseball game in prime time.
  • Al Trautwig^[83] interviewed the Detroit Tigers from their clubhouse following their pennant-clinching victory in Game 3.
• Dick Enberg^[84] was inToronto for Games 1 and 7^[85] of the1985 ALCS onNBC. Enberg hosted thepregame show alongsideRick Dempsey^[72] (who was still active withBaltimore at the time). Meanwhile,Bill Macatee provided a report on Game 2 of the ALCS during the pregame of theNLCS opener.
  • CTV^[86] in Canadasimulcast NBC's coverage (albeit withCanadian commercials) of the 1985 and 1989 ALCS involving the Toronto Blue Jays, and many relied on cable and antennas. Therefore, parts of Canada that were not near the US border couldn't pick up the American feeds, which is why these feeds were needed.
• On October 15, Game 6 of the1986 NLCS ran so long (lasting for 16 innings, 5 hours, and 29 minutes), that it bumped up against the start time of Game 7 of theALCS (also onABC). In his lastABC assignment,Don Drysdale^[67] interviewed the winners in theBoston clubhouse following Game 7 of the 1986 ALCS.^[87]
• NBC usedDon Sutton^[88][89] as a pre and postgame analyst for their 1987 LCS coverage.^[90]Marv Albert^[91] went back-and-forth during both 1987 LCS. He hosted the pregame for Game 1 of theNLCS^[92] withJoe Morgan fromSt. Louis. He then went toMinnesota the next night to host theALCS pregame with Don Sutton. Sutton also made an appearance in the booth during Game 3 of the ALCS. Sutton talked withBob Costas andTony Kubek aboutTwins pitcherLes Straker's borderlinebalk in that game. Sutton later interviewedDetroit Tigers managerSparky Anderson following their loss in Game 5.^[93]
• ThenTexas Rangers managerBobby Valentine^[94] worked as an on-the-field analyst forNBC's1989 ALCS coverage.
  • Jimmy Cefalo hosted the pregame show for Game 4 of the1989 ALCS asMarv Albert was away on anNFL^[95] assignment for NBC.

• In1970, NBC televised the second games of both League Championship Series on a regional basis. Some markets got theNLCS at 1 p.m.ET along with a 4 p.m.NFL game while other markets got theALCS at 4 p.m. along with a 1 p.m. NFL game.
• In1971, Game 1 of theALCS was rained out on Saturday, October 2. Due to itsNFL coverage, NBC^[105] did not televise^[106][107] the rescheduled Game 1 the following day (they had only planned anNLCS telecast that day), but added a telecast of Game 2 on Monday, October 4 (which had been a scheduled travel day).
• NBC did not air Game 2 of the1973 ALCS.
• Except for Game 1 in both series, all games in1975 were regionally televised. Game 3 of both League Championship Series was aired inprime time, the first time such an occurrence happened.
• 1976 marked the first time that all LCS games were televised nationally.Keith Jackson missed Game 1 of theALCS because he had just finished calling theOklahoma vs. Texascollege football game forABC. Thus,Bob Uecker filled in^[108] for Jackson for Game 1. Uecker also took part in the postgame interviews for Game 5 of the 1976 ALCS, whileWarner Wolf did an interview ofGeorge Brett in theKansas City locker room.^[109]
• In1978,Keith Jackson^[110] called anOklahoma vs. Texascollege football game forABC on October 7, and then flew toNew York, arriving just in time to call Game 4 of theALCS that same night.^[3]

• In the early years of the League Championship Series,^[111] NBC typically televised a doubleheader on the opening Saturday, followed by a single game on Sunday (because ofNFL coverage). They then covered the weekday games with a 1.5 hour overlap,^[112] joining the second game in progress when the first one ended. NBC usually swapped announcer crews after Game 2.
• NBC did not air Game 2 of the1969 ALCS.
• From1969 to1983, the Major League Baseball television contract allowed a local TV station in the market of each competing team to also carry the LCS games. So in 1969, for example,Orioles fans inBaltimore could choose to watch either the NBC telecast orChuck Thompson,Bill O'Donnell andJim Karvellas onWJZ-TV.

For all of the League Championship Series telecasts spanning from 1969 to 1975, only Game 2 of the1972 American League Championship Series (Oakland vs.Detroit) is known to exist.^[113] However, the copy on the trade circuit of Game 2 of the 1972 ALCS is missing theBert Campaneris–Lerrin LaGrow brawl. There are some instances where the only brief glimpse of telecast footage of an early LCS game can be seen in a surviving newscast from that night. For instance, the last out of the1973 National League Championship Series as described byJim Simpson was played on that night'sNBC Nightly News, but other than that, the entire game is gone. On the day theNew York Mets andBaltimore Orioles wrapped up their respective League Championship Series in 1969, a feature story on theCBS Evening News showed telecast clips of theALCS game (there's no original sound, just voiceover narration). This is all that likely remains of anything from that third game of theOrioles–Twins series. Simpson's call of the injury ofReggie Jackson during Game 5 of the 1972 ALCS is heard on the1972 World Series film, as well asCurt Gowdy's call of the home run byJohnny Bench in Game 5 of the 1972 NLCS as well asBob Moose throwing a wild pitch to pinch-hitterHal McRae scoringGeorge Foster with the winning run.^[114]

As previously mentioned, from1969 until1983, theMajor League Baseball television contract allowed a local TV station in the market of each competing team to also carry the LCS games.

From 1969 to 1975, there was no official national radio network coverage of the League Championship Series.NBC only had the national radio rights to theAll-Star Game andWorld Series during this period. Instead, national coverage was provided via broadcastssyndicated overad hoc networks.

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• 1972,1973 and1975 were years in which the participants' local broadcasts weresyndicated.

Since 1969, the non-national radio broadcasts of theAmerican League Championship Series have been broadcast on theflagship stations and radio networks of the teams participating in the series.

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