Viacom Back In The Day - Am I Crazy?

[MelroseHawkins]

I was thinking about the broadcasting of old football games in the 1980's & 90's. Many of the games were on I think Viacom or Raycom or something with local broadcasters like Wayne Larrivee. The BIG would prob have a nationally broadcasted ABC game with the likes of Ohio St or Michigan & sometimes a team like Iowa in the mid 1980's, etc.. These were big games.

I think back in the day for the regular broadcasted games, it seems the kickoff for the first game was at 11:00 a.m. like it is today, but then always followed by a 1:00 p.m. kickoff for a second game. The BIG game on a national network would always come later about 2:30. Anyway, is it correct that the first game would usually only take a couple hours and be done by 1:00 p.m. for the 2nd game? Am I crazy? If so, I can't image a game being done in 2 hrs. Games were always at 11:00 and 1:00.

Am I getting something wrong?

 

[ICHawk24]

You are misremembering. They were not completed in two hours.

There weren't the iron clad TV windows, where everything was essentially a national broadcast like it is today. The network broadcasts and Raycom or syndicated broadcasts overlapped.

Take a look at the 1986 Iowa schedule. The CBS games were 2:30pm. The Raycom or syndicated games were 1pm. WTBS(!!!) had a couple at 11:30am.

1986 Iowa Hawkeyes football team - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Source
September 13	11:30 a.m.	Iowa State*		Kinnick Stadium Iowa City, IA (rivalry)	TBS	W 43–7	67,700	[3]
September 20	1:00 p.m.	Northern Illinois*		Kinnick Stadium Iowa City, IA		W 57–3	66,930	[4]
September 27	1:00 p.m.	UTEP*	No. 15	Kinnick Stadium Iowa City, IA		W 69–7	67,500	[5]
October 4	2:30 p.m.	at No. 17 Michigan State	No. 11	Spartan Stadium East Lansing, MI	CBS	W 24–21	75,102	[6]
October 11	1:00 p.m.	Wisconsin	No. 10	Kinnick Stadium Iowa City, IA (rivalry)		W 17–6	67,700	[7]
October 18	2:30 p.m.	at No. 4 Michigan	No. 8	Michigan Stadium Ann Arbor, MI	CBS	L 17–20	105,879	[8]
October 25	1:00 p.m.	Northwestern	No. 11	Kinnick Stadium Iowa City, IA		W 27–20	67,250	[9]
November 1	11:30 a.m.	No. 17 Ohio State	No. 11	Kinnick Stadium Iowa City, IA	TBS	L 10–31	67,640	[10]
November 8	1:00 p.m.	at Illinois	No. 16	Memorial Stadium Champaign, IL		L 16–20	75,190	[11]
November 15	1:00 p.m.	Purdue		Kinnick Stadium Iowa City, IA		W 42–14	67,321	[12]
November 22	6:00 p.m.	at Minnesota		Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome Minneapolis, MN (rivalry)	TBS	W 30–27	65,018	[13]
December 30	8:00 p.m.	vs. San Diego State*	No. 19	Jack Murphy Stadium San Diego, CA (Holiday Bowl)	ESPN	W 39–38	59,473	[14]
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Central time

 

[MelroseHawkins]

Ah, thanks.

 

[Fryowa]

WTBS(!!!) had a couple at 11:30am.

As a 3rd generation lifelong Braves fan, TBS made large parts of my childhood possible.