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NFL M edia H istory

In the National Football League’s first 40 years, its media power and presence looked nothing like the colossus we see on our tele- vision, computer, and mobile screens today. The NFL was born in 1920, in the long shadow of college football. The first network radio broadcast of the NFL championship came in 1934. That was almost a decade after the 1925 Rose Bowl became the first college game heard coast to coast. The first NFL telecast went to fewer than 1,000 homes, on an experimental station in New York City. Network television first carried the NFL Championship Game in 1948. After grinding its way through the

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