week 10 cbs nfl assignments 1962 (how it probably looked)

[timmyb]

this is how the assignments may have looked based on what broadcasting magazine stated were the teams' tv crews were in 1962. 62 was the first league wide contract for the nfl.

all games on cbs.

11/18/62:
colts-packers: chuck thompson, jim simpson (bal) & ray scott, tony canadeo (gb)
bears-cowboys: red grange, george connor (chi) & frank glieber, davey o'brien (dal)
lions-vikings: van patrick, bob reynolds (det) & herb carneal, clay tonnemaker (min)
49ers-rams: bob fouts, gordy soltau (sf) & bill brundige, gil stratton (la)
cardinals-browns: jack drees, bill fischer (stl) & ken coleman, warren lahr (cle)
eagles-giants: jack whitaker, bosh pritchard (phi) & chris schenkel, pat summerall (ny)
redskins-steelers: jim gibbons, eddie gallaher (wsh only)

the colts, eagles and steelers networks only tv'ed away games. but for the record, the steelers tv crew was joe tucker and joe bach.

just for the heck of it, football fans!

timmyb

 

[retrothoughts]

> this is how the assignments may have looked based on what
> broadcasting magazine stated were the teams' tv crews were
> in 1962. 62 was the first league wide contract for the nfl.
>
> all games on cbs.
>
> 11/18/62:
> colts-packers: chuck thompson, jim simpson (bal) & ray
> scott, tony canadeo (gb)
> bears-cowboys: red grange, george connor (chi) & frank
> glieber, davey o'brien (dal)
> lions-vikings: van patrick, bob reynolds (det) & herb
> carneal, clay tonnemaker (min)
> 49ers-rams: bob fouts, gordy soltau (sf) & bill brundige,
> gil stratton (la)
> cardinals-browns: jack drees, bill fischer (stl) & ken
> coleman, warren lahr (cle)
> eagles-giants: jack whitaker, bosh pritchard (phi) & chris
> schenkel, pat summerall (ny)
> redskins-steelers: jim gibbons, eddie gallaher (wsh only)
>
> the colts, eagles and steelers networks only tv'ed away
> games. but for the record, the steelers tv crew was joe
> tucker and joe bach.
>
> just for the heck of it, football fans!
>
> timmyb
>

In those days, each NFL team had their own set of announcers. Home games were blacked out--whether a sellout or not--until 1973. In 1968, CBS switched to having a single set of announcers for each game. ABC and NBC pioneered that particular "single set" format earlier in the 1960's with their regional AFL telecasts.

With a few exceptions, most of the NFL announcers that CBS used in 1962 were locals.

 

[timmyb]

retrothoughts,

to clarify, 11 of the 14 teams in 1962 televised all of their teams' games. as an example, the giants cbs network did all 14 games home and away. when away, channel 2 in new york was part of the network. when the giants were in yankee stdium, channel 2 (and if there were any cbs affiliates that had a signal within 75 miles of yankee stadium) was blacked out. but the cbs affiliates in new england, and upstate new york (albany, syracuse at least. rochester and buffalo i think were a part of the browns cbs network), would still do the giants game with schenkel and summerall on the call. cbs utilized a pool feed for the video coverage, but a dual audio feed for both teams' networks.

cbs would use the dual audio feed in 1963 and 1965, 1966 and 1967. in 1964, cbs used each teams' announcer crews for one half each of coverage.

tb

> In those days, each NFL team had their own set of
> announcers. Home games were blacked out--whether a sellout
> or not--until 1973. In 1968, CBS switched to having a
> single set of announcers for each game. ABC and NBC
> pioneered that particular "single set" format earlier in the
> 1960's with their regional AFL telecasts.
>
> With a few exceptions, most of the NFL announcers that CBS
> used in 1962 were locals.
>

 

[ViewStu]

> retrothoughts,
>
> to clarify, 11 of the 14 teams in 1962 televised all of
> their teams' games. as an example, the giants cbs network
> did all 14 games home and away. when away, channel 2 in new
> york was part of the network. when the giants were in yankee
> stdium, channel 2 (and if there were any cbs affiliates that
> had a signal within 75 miles of yankee stadium) was blacked
> out.


In those days, since games were always blacked out in home markets, did the balcked-out affiliates get to televise out-of town games in that time slot(as they do today?)

 

[timmyb]

>
> In those days, since games were always blacked out in home
> markets, did the balcked-out affiliates get to televise
> out-of town games in that time slot(as they do today?)
>
viewstu,

i'm not 100% sure, but i'm of the belief that they did. except of course the home team market.

tb

 

[retrothoughts]

> >
> > In those days, since games were always blacked out in home
>
> > markets, did the balcked-out affiliates get to televise
> > out-of town games in that time slot(as they do today?)
> >
> viewstu,
>
> i'm not 100% sure, but i'm of the belief that they did.
> except of course the home team market.
>
> tb
>

In the early 1960's, blacked-out areas got no game at all for fear of losing out on attendance. When the "doubleheader" was introduced later that decade, the blacked-out areas got to see only one, not two, games.

 

[alw2juv]

I was a big NY Giants fan in '62 and still am today.

Remember very well that WTEN-Albany Channel 10 broadcast all NY Giant games, home and away, during the '62 season.

> retrothoughts,
>
> to clarify, 11 of the 14 teams in 1962 televised all of
> their teams' games. as an example, the giants cbs network
> did all 14 games home and away. when away, channel 2 in new
> york was part of the network. when the giants were in yankee
> stdium, channel 2 (and if there were any cbs affiliates that
> had a signal within 75 miles of yankee stadium) was blacked
> out. but the cbs affiliates in new england, and upstate new
> york (albany, syracuse at least. rochester and buffalo i
> think were a part of the browns cbs network), would still do
> the giants game with schenkel and summerall on the call. cbs
> utilized a pool feed for the video coverage, but a dual
> audio feed for both teams' networks.
>
> cbs would use the dual audio feed in 1963 and 1965, 1966 and
> 1967. in 1964, cbs used each teams' announcer crews for one
> half each of coverage.
>
> tb
>
> > In those days, each NFL team had their own set of
> > announcers. Home games were blacked out--whether a
> sellout
> > or not--until 1973. In 1968, CBS switched to having a
> > single set of announcers for each game. ABC and NBC
> > pioneered that particular "single set" format earlier in
> the
> > 1960's with their regional AFL telecasts.
> >
> > With a few exceptions, most of the NFL announcers that CBS
>
> > used in 1962 were locals.
> >
>

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

Retrothoughts wrote:

> In the early 1960's, blacked-out areas got no game at all
> for fear of losing out on attendance. When the
> "doubleheader" was introduced later that decade, the
> blacked-out areas got to see only one, not two, games.

And I would think the one game that was shown was in the "other" window. As an example, if the New York Giants were playing a home game at 1:05 P.M. EST/EDT (or 1:35 or 2:05; I'm not sure what time the Giants played their home games back then), the one televised game on WCBS-2 that particular week would probably be a 4:05 P.M. EST/EDT contest.