Arena Football League on ABC was the de facto title for broadcasts of Arena Football League (AFL) games on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television network. ABC was the first major television network in the United States to give exposureMay 13, 1998 - That experimental air continues even as ABC is preparing to give this August's season ending ArenaBowl its first network television coverage and NFL owners consider making the indoor game a developmental league in Europe. For this reason Bruce Frey of Palm Beach Gardens has been ...Aug 19, 1998 - ABC'S OF EXPOSURE The Arena League is expected to get a boost when ABC Chs 28 and 40 in the Tampa Bay area televises the ArenaBowl live at 1 pm Sunday It will be the first Arena game televised on a major network although Storm coach Tim Marcum recalls when he was in Detroit and a ... to the Arena Football League. Prior to 1998,Feb 5, 1998 - The league is also expected to announce that ABC will broadcast the championship ArenaBowl on Aug. 23. Vallozzi also said he and the Mustangs are trying to work out a deal with the Green Bay Packers to have the Mustangs' training camp, which is April 9-24, at the Don Hutson Center.Feb 21, 1998 - The Arena Football League took a prime step forward with the announcement of a new television agreement that will put the championship game, Arena Bowl XII, on ABC and eight regular-season games into live, prime-time slots on ESPN2. The two- year contract extension calls for 20 games on ...Aug 24, 1998 - COMMISSIONER C. DAVID Baker said that while he hoped ArenaBowl XII would get a decent rating on ABC-TV, he was "not too worried about that." He added that he questioned the ABC decision of delaying the telecast 21/2 hours on the West Coast, saying: "That puts our game against the NFL ... when ABC televised ArenaBowl XII, the most exposure that the league would receive was on ESPN, which would air tape-delayed games, often well after midnight.
