The Arena Football League took a one-year hiatus in 2009, but returned in time for the 2010 season with a
reformed business model.
The AFL signed a one-year deal with the
NFL Network in 2010 and carried a weekly Friday night game throughout the entire 2010 season, as well as ArenaBowl XXIII. The contract between the AFL and NFL Network was renewed for another season in Fall 2010.
For the
2013 season, the league's new national broadcast partner was the
CBS Sports Network. CBSSN aired nineteen regular season games and two playoff games.
CBS aired the
ArenaBowl (under the CBS Sports Spectacular umbrella), marking the first time since 2008 that the league's finale aired on broadcast network television.[2]
In December 2013, it was announced that
ESPN had acquired the rights to broadcast Arena football games, including
ArenaBowl XXVI. This was the first ArenaBowl to be televised on ESPN since
2008, prior to the year-long hiatus taken by the AFL.[3]
ABC's ArenaBowl telecasts from 1998 to 2002 were aired as under the
Wide World of Sports[20] anthology umbrella. Prior to this taste of widespread, national exposure,[21][22] the most exposure that the league would receive was on ESPN, which would air
tape-delayed games, often well after midnight.
^"ArenaBowl XXX Broadcast Crews Announced". arenafootball.com. August 23, 2017. Archived from the original on August 24, 2017. Retrieved August 23, 2017.{{
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link)
The Arena Football League took a one-year hiatus in 2009, but returned in time for the 2010 season with a
reformed business model.
The AFL signed a one-year deal with the
NFL Network in 2010 and carried a weekly Friday night game throughout the entire 2010 season, as well as ArenaBowl XXIII. The contract between the AFL and NFL Network was renewed for another season in Fall 2010.
For the
2013 season, the league's new national broadcast partner was the
CBS Sports Network. CBSSN aired nineteen regular season games and two playoff games.
CBS aired the
ArenaBowl (under the CBS Sports Spectacular umbrella), marking the first time since 2008 that the league's finale aired on broadcast network television.[2]
In December 2013, it was announced that
ESPN had acquired the rights to broadcast Arena football games, including
ArenaBowl XXVI. This was the first ArenaBowl to be televised on ESPN since
2008, prior to the year-long hiatus taken by the AFL.[3]
ABC's ArenaBowl telecasts from 1998 to 2002 were aired as under the
Wide World of Sports[20] anthology umbrella. Prior to this taste of widespread, national exposure,[21][22] the most exposure that the league would receive was on ESPN, which would air
tape-delayed games, often well after midnight.
^"ArenaBowl XXX Broadcast Crews Announced". arenafootball.com. August 23, 2017. Archived from the original on August 24, 2017. Retrieved August 23, 2017.{{
cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (
link)