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. From 1970-1993, CBS held the National Football Conference (NFC) package. Since 1994, the Fox Broadcasting Company has held the NFC package. Meanwhile, from 1970-1997, NBC held the American Football Conference (AFC) package. Since 1998, CBS has held the AFC package.

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. 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.

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

American Football Conference

National Football Conference

Local preseason television coverage

Since the NFL returned to the CBS in 1998, a number of local CBS stations have been televising preseason football games, mostly including the network's graphics and production that viewers would normally see during regular season national/regional broadcasts.

A number of NFL teams and their broadcasting departments have teamed up with CBS Sports to produce games, and those teams include (As of 2007) the San Diego Chargers (originating stations KCBS-TV Los Angeles and KFMB-TV San Diego), New York Jets (WCBS-TV New York), and Green Bay Packers (former CBS O&O WFRV-TV Green Bay And Co-flagship WTMJ-TV Milwaukee, a NBC affiliate).

However, there are some that used a few, but not all, elements of the NFL on CBS production presentations, and they are mostly in-house productions between the teams and their individual flagship station. Those include the Pittsburgh Steelers (KDKA-TV), Miami Dolphins (WFOR-TV), San Francisco 49ers (KPIX and KOVR in Sacramento), Dallas Cowboys (KTVT), Cincinnati Bengals (WKRC-TV), Denver Broncos (KCNC), Kansas City Chiefs (KCTV), Washington Redskins (WUSA-TV), New England Patriots (WBZ-TV), Jacksonville Jaguars (WTEV), and the Detroit Lions (WWJ-TV)

WCBS, KCBS, KDKA, WFOR, KTVT, KPIX, KOVR, KCNC, WBZ, and WWJ are all owned by CBS Corporation.

See also

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

• Historical 'Primary' Stations, 1970-Present