College Basketball on ABC

College Basketball on ABC
Also known asCollege Basketball on ABC
GenreCollege basketball telecasts
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons24
Production
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time120 minutes or until end of game
Production companiesABC Sports
Raycom Sports
ESPN
Original release
NetworkABC
ReleaseJanuary 18, 1987 (1987-01-18) - present
Related
ESPN College Basketball
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ABC first broadcast selected college basketball games of the now-NCAA Division I during the 1960s and 1970s, before it began televising them on a regular basis on January 18, 1987, with a game between the LSU Tigers and Kentucky Wildcats). As CBS and NBC were also broadcasting college games at the time, this put the sport on all three major broadcast television networks.

After the ABC Sports division was merged into ESPN Inc. by parent company Disney in 2006, broadcasts have since been produced by ESPN, and have primarily used the ESPN College Basketball branding and graphics instead of the College Basketball on ABC branding.

After a five-year hiatus, ABC returned to airing college basketball in 2019 with five games on the network, and has continued to do so since.[1]

  1. ^ Jim Donnelly (November 18, 2019). "Watch 2019-2020 College Basketball on ABC & ESPN". ABC.com (Press release). Retrieved November 5, 2023.