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s and announcers that have broadcast the ArenaBowl over the years.

2010s

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*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

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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 CBS Sports Network (a.k.a. CBSSN) is an American pay television network owned by the CBS Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Global. When it launched in 2002 as the National College Sports Network (later College Sports Television also known ...

. CBSSN aired nineteen regular season games and two playoff games. CBS aired the ArenaBowl (under the ''

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'' umbrella), marking the first time since 2008 that the league's finale aired on broadcast network television. *In December 2013, it was announced that

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had acquired the rights to broadcast Arena football games, including

ArenaBowl XXVI ArenaBowl XXVI was the 26th edition of the championship in the Arena Football League. The National Conference champion Arizona Rattlers, defeated the American Conference champion Philadelphia Soul, 48–39. The game was played on August 17, 2013 ...

. This was the first ArenaBowl to be televised on ESPN since , prior to the year-long hiatus taken by the AFL.

2000s

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*ABC's ArenaBowl coverage from 2007 onward, were produced entirely by their corporate sibling (under the

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umbrella)

1990s

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*ABC's ArenaBowl telecasts from 1998 to 2002 were aired as under the ''Wide World of Sports'' anthology umbrella. Prior to this taste of widespread, national exposure,Aug 19, 1998 - ABC'S OF EXPOSURE The Arena League is expected to get a boost when ABC Chs 28 and 40 in the Tampa Bay area televises the ArenaBowl live at 1 pm Sunday It will be the first Arena game televised on a major network although Storm coach Tim Marcum recalls when he was in Detroit and a ...
/ref> the most exposure that the league would receive was on ESPN, which would air tape-delayed games, often well after midnight.

1980s

References

External links

ArenaBowl.com
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2010s

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1990s

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1980s

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