The following is a list of television and radio networks and announcers that have broadcast theAmerican Football League Championship Game, which was played from1960–1969 prior to theAmerican Football League'smerger with theNational Football League.

On June 9, 1960, the league signed a five-year television contract withABC, which brought in revenues of approximately $2.125 million per year for the entire league. On January 29, 1964, the AFL signed a lucrative $36 million television contract withNBC (beginning in the 1965 season), which gave the league money it needed to compete with the NFL for players.

• 1965 – Because of the smaller venue, the attendance was nearly 10,000 lower than1964, but the television money was increased withNBC.
• 1964 – Held six days after the completion of the1964 regular season, it was the only AFL title game not played on Sunday, as well as the final one televised in black-and-white. This was the last AFL game onABC television; rights were sold in January 1964 toNBC for $36 million over five years, beginning with the1965 season.^[26][27] With the new television deal with NBC, the players' shares for the AFL title game nearly doubled in1965.^[28] This infusion of cash helped spur a bidding war for talent with the NFL, which led to theAFL–NFL mergeragreement in June 1966. With the exception of the 1966Continental Football League championship, ABC did not carry pro football again until after the completion of the merger and the subsequent creation ofMonday Night Football for the1970 season.
• 1960 – To preclude the possibility of having to compete with an NFL title game in close proximity for an audience, AFL owners initially agreed that its Western champions would host in even numbered years, with Eastern champions hosting in odd numbered years. Thus, the first game was originally scheduled to be played in the 103,000 capacityLos Angeles Coliseum. However, the Chargers had drawn less than 10,000 fans per home game. With the still-fledgling league fearing the prospect that ABC would pull its contract because of very poor ticket sales, the Chargers, the Oilers and the League mutually agreed to move the game^[29] to the smaller Jeppesen Stadium in Houston, where it drew a near-capacity 32,183.

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