The following is a list of the national television and radio networks and announcers that have broadcast National League Championship Series games over the years. It does not include any announcers who may have appeared on local broadcasts produced by the participating teams.
Year | Network | Play-by-play | Color commentators | Field reporters | |||
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1999 | NBC | Bob Costas[7][8] | Joe Morgan | Jim Gray and Craig Sager | |||
1998 | Fox | Joe Buck | Tim McCarver and Bob Brenly | ||||
1997 | NBC | Bob Costas[9] | Joe Morgan[10] and Bob Uecker[11] | Jim Gray[12] | |||
1996 | Fox | Joe Buck | Tim McCarver and Bob Brenly | ||||
1995 | ABC (Games 1–2[13][14]) NBC (Games 3–4) |
Al Michaels (Games 1–2) Greg Gumbel (Games 3–4) |
Jim Palmer and Tim McCarver (Games 1–2) Joe Morgan (Games 3–4) |
Lesley Visser (Games 1–2) | |||
1994 | Canceled due to 1994 strike. | ||||||
1993 | CBS | Sean McDonough[15] | Tim McCarver[16][17] | Jim Gray | |||
1992 | CBS[18] | Sean McDonough[19] | Tim McCarver[20][21] | Jim Gray | |||
1991 | CBS | Jack Buck[22] | Tim McCarver[23] | Andrea Joyce[24] | |||
1990 | CBS | Jack Buck[25] | Tim McCarver | James Brown[26] |
See also: Braves TBS Baseball |
Year | Network | Play-by-play | Color commentators |
1979 | NBC | Joe Garagiola | Tony Kubek and Don Sutton[72] |
1978 | ABC | Al Michaels | Don Drysdale and Johnny Bench[73] |
1977 | NBC | Joe Garagiola (Games 1–2) Jim Simpson (Game 3) Dick Enberg (Game 4) |
Tony Kubek (Games 1–2) Maury Wills (Game 3) Don Drysdale (Game 4) |
1976 | ABC | Al Michaels | Warner Wolf and Tom Seaver |
1975 | NBC | Joe Garagiola (Games 1–2) Curt Gowdy (Game 3) |
Maury Wills (Games 1–2) Tony Kubek (Game 3) |
1974 | NBC | Jim Simpson (Game 1) Curt Gowdy (Games 3–4) |
Maury Wills (Game 1) Tony Kubek (Games 3–4) |
1973 | NBC | Curt Gowdy (Games 1[74]–2) Jim Simpson (Games 3–5) |
Tony Kubek (Games 1–2) Maury Wills (Games 3–5) |
1972 | NBC | Jim Simpson (Game 1) Curt Gowdy (Games 3–5) |
Sandy Koufax (Game 1) Tony Kubek (Games 3–5) |
1971 | NBC[75] | Curt Gowdy (Games 1–2) Jim Simpson (Games 3–4) |
Tony Kubek (Games 1–2) Sandy Koufax (Games 3–4) |
1970 | NBC | Curt Gowdy (Games 1–2) Jim Simpson (Game 3) |
Tony Kubek (Games 1–2) Sandy Koufax (Game 3) |
Year | Network | Play-by-play | Color commentators |
1969 | NBC | Jim Simpson (Game 1) Curt Gowdy (Games 2–3) |
Sandy Koufax (Game 1) Tony Kubek (Games 2–3) |
For all of the League Championship Series telecasts spanning from 1969 to 1975, only Game 2 of the 1972 American League Championship Series (Oakland vs. Detroit) is known to exist. However, the copy on the trade circuit of Game 2 of the 1972 ALCS is missing the Bert Campaneris-Lerrin LaGrow brawl. There are some instances where the only brief glimpse of telecast footage of an early LCS game can be seen in a surviving newscast from that night. For instance, the last out of the 1973 National League Championship Series as described by Jim Simpson was played on that night's NBC Nightly News, but other than that, the entire game is gone. On the day the New York Mets and Baltimore Orioles wrapped up their respective League Championship Series in 1969, a feature story on the CBS Evening News showed telecast clips of the ALCS game (there's no original sound, just voiceover narration). This is all that likely remains of anything from that third game of the Orioles-Twins series. While all telecasts of World Series games starting with 1975 are accounted for and exist, the LCS is still a spotty situation through the late 1970s:
As previously mentioned, from 1969 until 1983, the Major League Baseball television contract allowed a local TV station in the market of each competing team to also carry the LCS games.
From 1969 to 1975, there was no official national radio network coverage of the League Championship Series. NBC only had the national radio rights to the All-Star Game and World Series during this period. Instead, national coverage was provided by local team radio broadcasts being syndicated nationally over ad hoc networks.
Year | Network | Play-by-play | Color commentators |
2018 | ESPN | Dan Shulman | Chris Singleton |
2017 | ESPN | Dan Shulman | Aaron Boone |
2016 | ESPN | Dan Shulman | Aaron Boone |
2015 | ESPN | Jon Sciambi | Chris Singleton |
2014 | ESPN | Dan Shulman | Aaron Boone |
2013 | ESPN | Dan Shulman | Orel Hershiser |
2012 | ESPN | Jon Sciambi | Chris Singleton |
2011 | ESPN | Jon Sciambi (Games 1–3, 6) Dave O'Brien (Games 4–5) |
Bobby Valentine (Games 1–4, 6) Buck Martinez (Game 5) |
2010 | ESPN | Dan Shulman | Dave Campbell |
Year | Network | Play-by-play | Color commentators |
1969 | Robert Wold Radio | Bob Prince | Gene Elston |
From 1969 to present, with the exception of the period between 1969 and 1975, the non-national radio broadcasts of the National League Championship Series we're broadcast on the flagship station and the radio network of the teams participating in the National League Championship Series.
Year | Teams | Flagship station | Play-by-play#1 | Play-by-play#2 | Play-by-play#3 | Color commentators |
2002 | San Francisco-St. Louis | KNBR-AM (San Francisco) KMOX-AM (St. Louis) |
Jon Miller (Game 5), Duane Kuiper (Games 1-4) Mike Shannon |
Joe Angel Joel Meyers |
Duane Kuiper (Game 5) |
Mike Krukow |
2001 | Arizona-Atlanta | KTAR-AM (Arizona) WSB-AM (Atlanta) |
Greg Schulte Pete Van Wieren |
Jeff Munn Skip Caray |
Rod Allen and Jim Traber Don Sutton and Joe Simpson |
Year | Teams | Flagship station | Play-by-play#1 | Play-by-play#2 | Play-by-play#3 |
1969 | New York (NL)–Atlanta | WJRZ-AM/WABC-FM (New York (NL)) WSB-AM (Atlanta) |
Lindsey Nelson Ernie Johnson |
Bob Murphy Milo Hamilton |
Ralph Kiner |