| Major League Baseball on NBC | |
|---|---|
 Major League Baseball on NBC logo circa 1999. | |
| Also known as | The NBC Game of the Week Baseball Night in America MLB Sunday Leadoff |
| Genre | Major League Baseball game telecasts |
| Directed by | Harry Coyle[1][2][3][4][5] Ted Nathanson[6] John Gonzalez Doug Grabert Bucky Gunts Andy Rosenberg[7] |
| Presented by | List of announcers |
| Theme music composer | Randy Edelman Kevin Gavin[8] Clark Gault Steve Martin Scott Schreer[9] Mitch & Ira Yuspeh |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Scotty Connal Don Ohlmeyer Michael Weisman[10] Terry O'Neill[11] Dick Ebersol Tom Roy |
| Producers | David Neal[12][13] Roy Hammerman George Finkel John J. Filippelli[14][15][16] Kenneth Roy Edmundson Les Dennis |
| Cinematography | Tom Adza Jim Bragg Eric A. Eisenstein Rick Fox Lou Gerard Steve Gonzalez Dave Hage Thomas K. Hogan Cory Leible Vaughn Kilgore Jim Lynch Tim O'Neill Albert Rice, Jr. Luis Rojas Nick Utley |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 180 minutes, or until conclusion |
| Production company | NBC Sports |
| Original release | |
| Network | NBC |
| Release | September 30, 1947 – October 9, 1989 |
| Release | July 12, 1994 – October 17, 2000 |
| Release | May 8, 2022 – September 3, 2023 |
| Related | |
| Major League Baseball on ABC Baseball Night in America Major League Baseball Game of the Week Major League Baseball: An Inside Look Monday Night Baseball | |
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Major League Baseball on NBC was the de facto branding for weekly broadcasts of Major League Baseball (MLB) games produced by NBC Sports, and televised on the NBC television network and its streaming service Peacock.
Major League Baseball games first aired on NBC from 1947 to 1989, including The NBC Game of the Week, when CBS acquired the broadcast television rights.[17]
Games returned to NBC in 1994 as part of The Baseball Network, a time-brokered package of broadcasts produced by Major League Baseball and split with ABC. After The Baseball Network folded after the 1995 season, NBC retained a smaller package through 2000, alternating rights to a package of postseason games with Fox (with NBC carrying the National League Championship Series and World Series in odd-numbered years, and the American League Championship Series and All-Star Game in even-numbered years).
The Comcast SportsNet regional sports networks became part of NBC Sports after Comcast acquired NBCUniversal in 2011; they currently hold rights to the Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics, Philadelphia Phillies, and San Francisco Giants. In 2022 and 2023, NBC's Peacock aired a national package of regular season games.
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- ^ Harry Coyle -- The greatest baseball director of all time on YouTube
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- ^ "NBC: NOBODY DOES IT BETTER". Sports Illustrated. October 25, 1982. Retrieved February 9, 2016.
- ^ Lapointe, Joe (October 16, 1990). "For CBS's First Series: Expect a Bounty of Cameras". The New York Times.
- ^ Harasta, Cathy (July 5, 1987). "BASEBALL PROVES AS TOUGH TO SHOW AS IT IS TO PLAY". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved February 9, 2016.
- ^ Foster, Jason (June 9, 2015). "The 9 best network baseball theme songs of all time, ranked". Sporting News.
- ^ Baseball Network Theme 1994 1995 (Various Cuts) on YouTube
- ^ "...BUT IT'S JUST RIGHT FOR MOUNTAIN TIME". Sun Sentinel. September 13, 1986. Retrieved February 9, 2016.
- ^ Pergament, Alan (June 10, 1989). "COSTAS FACES FACTS OF A LIFE WITHOUT BASEBALL NEXT YEAR". The Buffalo News.
- ^ Dubow, Josh (October 17, 1997). "Baseball Fans Get Unique Look At Game". The Spokesman-Review.
- ^ Stewart, Larry (October 17, 1997). "With Scully and Torborg, Less Is More". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Rudy Martzke (September 29, 1989). "NBC, Filippelli say bye to 42 years of baseball". USA Today. ProQuest 306217104.
- ^ "John Filippelli, YES Network, President, Production & Programming". Sports Video Group. April 29, 2015.
- ^ Casselberry, Ian (September 3, 2020). "In addition to his Hall of Fame pitching career, Tom Seaver also worked more than 20 years as a broadcaster". Awful Announcing.
- ^ James Robert Walker; Robert Bellamy, Jr. (2008). Center Field Shot: A History of Baseball on Television. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0803248250.