There, his greatest contribution was to conceive and host the CBS Football Roundup, which switched listeners back and forth between broadcasts of different regional college games each week.

With CBS now carrying the Game of the Week,[38] the network's stations in Phoenix (KOOL-TV), Little Rock (KTHV) and Cedar Rapids (KGAN-TV) were finally receiving the broadcasts.

According to industry insiders, neither NBC nor ABC wanted the entire baseball package—that is, regular-season games, both League Championship Series and the World Series—because such a commitment would have required them to preempt too many highly rated prime time shows.

Before[84] the previous television contract (which ran from 1984 to 1989) with Major League Baseball was signed, CBS[85] was at one point, interested in a pact which would have called for three interleague games airing only on Thursday nights during the season.

And to our friends at what's known in the industry as "Black Rock",[87] good luck in 1990 and beyond.A trademark of CBS' baseball coverage was its theme music,[88] composed by Bob Christianson and Tony Smythe.

During Pat O'Brien's prologue for Game 1 of the 1991 American League Championship Series between the Minnesota Twins and Toronto Blue Jays[95] and Dick Stockton's prologue for Game 5 of the 1992 American League Championship Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and Oakland Athletics,[96] CBS used "In Celebration of Man" by Yanni, which is now known for being the theme music for NBC's U.S. Open golf coverage.

Van Halen's "Right Now" was used during the opening for the network's coverage of Game 4 of the 1993 American League Championship Series[99] between the Toronto Blue Jays and Chicago White Sox.

In the interim between Brent Musburger's firing and Jack Buck's promotion, there had been speculation that if Al Michaels[130] won an arbitration case involving ABC, he would join CBS[131] as its lead baseball announcer.

Joining Gumbel were CBS Sports analyst Tim McCarver and Pat O'Brien, who presented a segment on the numerous player transitions, leading up to the start of the 1990 season.

[188][189] In the sixth game, Jack Buck famously called Minnesota left fielder Kirby Puckett's game-winning home run[190] off of Charlie Leibrandt with the line "And we'll see you tomorrow night!"

!Earlier in the postseason, CBS' coverage of the ALCS meant that they could not carry the live testimony of Clarence Thomas, whose confirmation to the United States Supreme Court was put into question because of charges of sexual harassment from former staffer Anita Hill.

The first pitch would generally arrive at approximately 8:45 p.m. Perhaps as a result, Joe Carter's World Series clinching home run off Mitch Williams in 1993, occurred at 12 a.m. on the East Coast.

Ric LaCivita, CBS' coordinating producer for baseball, said in July 1992 in regards to working with Jack Buck for two seasons: "There were different styles in the booth that made it difficult to create the type of production that benefited from Tim's skills.

Francisco Cabrera, who had only ten at-bats in the major leagues during the regular season, singled through the left side, scoring Sid Bream from second base with the winning run.

The Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox, Atlanta Braves, and Los Angeles Dodgers all agreed to increase their maximum number of network exposures before the final two weeks of the season from four to five.

As previously mentioned, for 1993, CBS made a broadcast booth change by removing Dick Stockton from his role as secondary play-by-play announcer after three seasons, and replacing him with Greg Gumbel.

National League President Bill White, while using a CBS headset in the broadcast booth during Game 1, was overheard telling Gentile and the producer Bob Dekas, "You guys keep using that camera the way you want.

Upon being asked about the news of CBS having to end their relationship with Major League Baseball after only four years, Sean McDonough told the New York Times[298] "It's all the words you can think of, frustrating, disappointing and sad, particularly because it's going so well.

When Toronto's Joe Carter hit his 1993 World Series clinching home run off of Philadelphia Phillies closer Mitch Williams, McDonough said[299] "Well-hit down the left-field line!

[314][315] Ten years prior to that, McCarver set a record by broadcasting his 13th World Series on national television (surpassing Curt Gowdy); in all, he called 24 Fall Classics for ABC, CBS, and Fox.

This time, it was Warren Morris, who hit a two out, 9th inning walk-off home run that won the 1996 College World Series[317] for the Louisiana State University Fighting Tigers against Miami.

Stockton split play-by-play duties during the 2010 regular season on TBS with NBA on TNT studio host Ernie Johnson Jr. and Milwaukee Brewers announcer Brian Anderson.

When interviewed by The New York Times in August 1989[344] Albert when asked, agreed with the notion regarding whether the average fan would be shut out of Major League Baseball with only 12 Saturday afternoon games being televised by CBS.

In any other World Series, viewership would have likely been higher since two American[357] teams would have been involved, to say nothing of spikes to off-the-chart ratings shares in the two competing cities (especially in 1991, when CBS was fortunate to cover the riveting, ultra intense, seven-game battle between the Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves).

CBS simply made far too high of a bid[60][360][361] (especially for a network that wound up frustrating fans with its lack of regular season coverage) and sustained a shortfall in advertising revenue.

Trecker also made note that even though CBS had finally developed a fine sense of the rhythm of baseball come 1992, the network still occasionally spent too much time on irrelevant crowd shots.

CBS also planned to take advantage of the remote camera atop the Baltimore & Ohio Warehouse at Camden Yards, that provided panoramic views on the Orioles' games that were broadcast on Home Team Sports.

Sonny Dearth of the Daily Press wrote[386] that while CBS' coverage of the 1993 baseball playoffs was insightful and generally good, he did note that the camera from center field and the one from high above the plate often didn't agree on whether some pitches were balls or strikes, thus confusing the viewer.

Dearth also wondered why the director had to show Philadelphia Phillies first basemen John Kruk's ripped pants (with the camera focused below the belt) so many times in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series.

Therefore, among the immediate changes Fox brought were the FoxBox, which showed the score, the runners on base and the count at all times; frequent and extreme close ups of players; and the use of a hard-rock, guitar-heavy theme music.