From

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CBS Sports CBS Sports is the sports division of the American television network CBS. Its headquarters are in the CBS Building on W 52nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, with programs produced out of Studio 43 at the CBS Broadcast Center on W 5 ...

televised a portion of the annual College World Series.

History

From

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, CBS only televised the championship game. From

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until the end of their coverage in

, CBS televised one game on the first Saturday of the World Series besides the championship game.

Format change

Prior to 1988, the College World Series was a pure double-elimination event. Beginning in 1988, the tournament was divided into two four-team double-elimination brackets, with the survivors of each bracket playing in a single championship game. The single-game championship was made for broadcast television, with the final game on CBS on Saturday afternoon. CBS paid approximately $500,000 for the broadcasting rights to the championship game.

The end of CBS' coverage

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, the tournament was shifted entirely to cable on

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, which had begun covering all of the other games of the CWS since

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(and a partial schedule since

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). The championship final became a best-of-three series between the two bracket winners, with games scheduled for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday evenings. In

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, college baseball returned to CBS Sports in the form of a multi-year agreement between the American Athletic Conference and

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 as ...

. Under the terms of the package, CBS Sports Network would air three Houston Baseball games in 2015, as well as the first two contests of the 2015 American Athletic Conference Baseball Championship. Carter Blackburn provided play-by-play for all seven games of the package, while analyst duties would be handled Darryl Hamilton and Ray King along with Brandon Tierney.

Commentators

1980s

1990s

2000s

References

External links

College Baseball - CBSSports.comNCAA Men's College World Series Records - CWS TELEVISION RATINGS (1997-2002)
{{DEFAULTSORT:College World Series On Cbs CBS Sports College baseball on television in the United States CBS original programming CBS 1988 American television series debuts 2002 American television series endings 1990s American television series CBS Sports Spectacular