From 1999 to 2006 (1998-2005 seasons), all games of the Bowl Championship Series[1] were televised by ABC Sports.
ABC paid nearly $25 million per year for the broadcast rights to the Fiesta, Sugar and Orange bowls during that time.
ABC had a $300 million eight-year contract that extends to 2014 for the broadcast rights for the Rose Bowl.
Beginning in 2007, FOX had the broadcast rights to the other Bowl Championship Series games, but the Rose Bowl, which negotiates its own television contract independent of the BCS, had agreed to keep the game on ABC.
The bowl has been broadcast by Mizlou (1976–1983), NBC (1984–1985), and ABC since then, with the exception of ESPN for the 2011 and 2012 editions.