FOX Sports
Richie Zyontz and his CBS crew were in Washington late in the 1993 NFL season when they heard some strange news.
“We found out that some company named FOX got football,” he said. “Nobody knew anything about FOX.”
CBS had aired NFL games since the mid-1950s, and renewing its contract with the league always had been a fait accompli.
“It was as common at CBS as a three-martini lunch,” Zyontz said, “which, at that time, a lot of the executives at CBS knew very well.