NFL Network Showing Super Bowl I Broadcast

By Jon Lafayette
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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The NFL Network plans to show the Green Bay Packers playing the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl I for the first time since 1967 on Jan. 15

Originally broadcast by NBC and CBS, both networks lost or recorded over tapes of the broadcast.

NFL Films spent months searching its archives to find all 145 plays from Super Bowl I from more than a dozen sources to recreate the entire content. The footage has been restored, remastered and color corrected.

The audio from the NBC Sports radio broadcast featuring Jim Simpson and George Ratterman was used to complete the broadcast.

Jon Lafayette
Jon Lafayette

Jon has been business editor of Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He focuses on revenue-generating activities, including advertising and distribution, as well as executive intrigue and merger and acquisition activity. Just about any story is fair game, if a dollar sign can make its way into the article. Before B+C, Jon covered the industry for TVWeek, Cable World, Electronic Media, Advertising Age and The New York Post. A native New Yorker, Jon is hiding in plain sight in the suburbs of Chicago.