The following is a list of thetelevision networks and announcers that broadcast theNational Football League Championship Game from the 1940s until the1969 NFL season (after which the NFLmerged with the American Football League). TheNational Football League first held a championship game in1933, it took until1948 before a championship game would be televised. The successor to the NFL Championship Game is theNFC Championship Game.

• The1969 NFL Championship Game was the final broadcasting assignment forPaul Christman, who died less than two months later on March 2.
• The1967 NFL Championship Game was televised byCBS, with play by play being done byRay Scott for the first half andJack Buck for the second half, whileFrank Gifford handled the color commentary for the entire game.^[4]Pat Summerall andTom Brookshier served as sideline reporters. Gifford and Summerall were intimately aware of the personality differences that existed between Landry and Lombardi because they had both played on the New York Giants during Landry's and Lombardi's tenure at the Giants. Over 30 million people would tune in to watch the game.^{[citation needed]} No copy of the complete telecast is known to exist. Some excerpts (such as the announcers' pre-game comments on the field) were saved and are occasionally re-aired in retrospective features. The Cowboys' radio broadcast onKLIF, withBill Mercer announcing, and the Packers' radio broadcast onWTMJ, with Ted Moore announcing, still exist.
• The1964 NFL Championship Game also the last NFL Championship Game televised in black-and-white, as well as the last game in which penalty flags in NFL games were white. The league switched to bright yellow flags the next season. The gate receipts for the game were about$635,000 and the television money was $1.9 million.^[5] Each player on the winningCleveland Browns team received about $8,000, whileBaltimore Colts players made around$5,000 each.^[6][7] This was about triple the amount for the players' shares in theAFL championship game.^[8]
• NBC paid the league $926,000 for the broadcast rights for the1963 NFL Championship Game.^[9][10] The gate receipts for the game were about$500,000 and the television money was $926,000. For the first time, the NFL tried a closed-circuit telecast in the localblackout area, with 26,000 viewing on large screens in four locations:McCormick Place,International Amphitheatre,Chicago Coliseum, andChicago Stadium;^[11][12] tickets ranged from $4 to$7.50.^[11] Gross receipts were $1,493,954, with $35,402 from the closed-circuit telecast.^[13]
• Due to the NFL'sblackout policy which aimed to protect gate receipts, until1973, fans in a team's home market could not watch their team's regular season and playoff games on television, even if they were title games as was also the case in1962.^[14] New York fans made reservations for motels inPennsylvania,New Jersey, andConnecticut so they could watch the game out of the 75-mile (120 km) blackout zone,^[15][16] and even though the game was played in 17 °F (−8 °C) temperatures with 35–40 mph (56–64 km/h) winds, only 299 of the 65,000+ Giant fans who bought tickets to the sold out game stayed home.^[17]
• The1961 NFL Championship Game was touted as "The Million Dollar Game," owing to the $600,000 in television broadcast rights paid to the NFL byNBC combined with a $400,000 gate to be generated through a projected sale of 40,000 tickets at the unitary price of $10 per seat regardless of location in the stadium.^[18] With 40,000 tickets sold at $10 each and $615,000 in TV revenue, this game was the first NFL Championship to generate $1 million in revenue.^[19] Each player on the winningGreen Bay Packers team received $5,195, whileNew York Giants players made $3,340 each.
• During overtime of the1958 NFL Championship Game, when theBaltimore Colts were on the eight-yard line of theNew York Giants, someone ran out onto the field of Yankee Stadium, causing the game to be delayed; rumors have stated that it was anNBC employee who was ordered to create a distraction because the national television feed had gone dead. The difficulty was the result of an unplugged TV signal cable,^[20] and the delay in the game bought NBC enough time to fix the problem before the next play.^[21]
  • An estimated 45 million people watched the game on television in the United States.^[22] This audience could have been even greater except that because of NFL restrictions, the game wasblacked out in the greater New York City area.^[23][24] Still, the impact from this game is far reaching. A year later, Texas billionaireLamar Hunt formed theAmerican Football League, which began play with eight teams in the1960 season. The growth of the popularity of the sport, through franchise expansion, the eventual merger with theAFL, and popularity on television, is commonly credited to this game, making it a turning point in the history of football. NFL CommissionerPete Rozelle was said by Giants ownerWellington Mara to have attributed professional football's surge in popularity to the game, because it "happened just at that time, in that season, and it happened in New York".
• The1951 NFL Championship Game the first NFL championship game to be televised coast-to-coast,^[25] and wasblacked out by the league in the southern California area. TheDuMont Network purchased the championship game TV rights from the NFL in May for five years (1951–55) for $475,000.^{[26][27][28][29][30]} The gross receipts for the game, including $75,000 for radio and television rights, was just under$326,000, the highest to date, passing the previous record of $283,000 five years earlier in1946. Each player on the winningLos Angeles Rams team received $2,108, whileCleveland Browns players made $1,483 each.^[31]

• The1949 NFL Championship Game was only televised on theWest Coast, under the auspices ofNFL CommissionerBert Bell.^[32]

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