NFL Network Brings Back Super Bowl I Broadcast

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

NBC and CBS were the original broadcasters of the game, and both networks had lost or recorded over tapes of the broadcast.

NFL Films spent months searching its archives, from more than a dozen sources, to find all 145 Super Bowl I plays and recreate the entire game.

Read more at broadcastingcable.com.

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.