The following is a list of the national television and radio networks and announcers that have broadcast American League Championship Series games over the years. It does include any announcers who may have appeared on local broadcasts produced by the participating teams.
Year | Network | Play-by-play | Color commentator(s) | Field reporter(s) | Pregame hosts | Pregame analysts | Trophy presentation |
2023 | Fox (Game 1–2, 7) | Joe Davis | John Smoltz | Ken Rosenthal and Tom Verducci | Matt Vasgersian (Game 1, 6) Kevin Burkhardt (Games 2–5, 7) |
Alex Rodriguez, David Ortiz, and Derek Jeter | Kevin Burkhardt |
FS1 (Games 2–7) | |||||||
2022 | TBS | Brian Anderson | Ron Darling and Jeff Francoeur | Lauren Shehadi | Bob Costas | Jimmy Rollins, Pedro Martínez, and Curtis Granderson | Lauren Shehadi |
2021 | Fox (Game 1–2) | Joe Buck | John Smoltz | Ken Rosenthal and Tom Verducci | Kevin Burkhardt | Alex Rodriguez, David Ortiz, and Frank Thomas | Kevin Burkhardt |
FS1 (Games 2–6) | |||||||
2020 | TBS[1] | Brian Anderson | Ron Darling and Jeff Francoeur | Lauren Shehadi | Ernie Johnson | Jimmy Rollins, Pedro Martínez, and Curtis Granderson | Lauren Shehadi |
Year | Network | Play-by-play | Color commentator |
1969 | NBC | Curt Gowdy (Game 1) Jim Simpson (Game 3) |
Tony Kubek (Game 1) Sandy Koufax (Game 3) |
For all of the League Championship Series telecasts spanning from 1969 to 1975, only Game 2 of the 1972 American League Championship Series (Oakland vs. Detroit) is known to exist.[86] However, the copy on the trade circuit of Game 2 of the 1972 ALCS is missing the Bert Campaneris–Lerrin LaGrow brawl. There are some instances where the only brief glimpse of telecast footage of an early LCS game can be seen in a surviving newscast from that night. For instance, the last out of the 1973 National League Championship Series as described by Jim Simpson was played on that night's NBC Nightly News, but other than that, the entire game is gone. On the day the New York Mets and Baltimore Orioles wrapped up their respective League Championship Series in 1969, a feature story on the CBS Evening News showed telecast clips of the ALCS game (there's no original sound, just voiceover narration). This is all that likely remains of anything from that third game of the Orioles–Twins series. Simpson's call of the injury of Reggie Jackson during Game 5 of the 1972 ALCS is heard on the 1972 World Series film, as well as Curt Gowdy's call of the home run by Johnny Bench in Game 5 of the 1972 NLCS as well as Bob Moose throwing a wild pitch to pinch-hitter Hal McRae scoring George Foster with the winning run.[87]
As previously mentioned, from 1969 until 1983, the Major League Baseball television contract allowed a local TV station in the market of each competing team to also carry the LCS games.
Year | Teams | Local TV | Play-by-play#1 | Play-by-play#2 | Play-by-play#3 |
1978 | New York Yankees–Kansas City | WPIX-TV | Phil Rizzuto | Frank Messer | Bill White |
KBMA-TV | Steve Shannon | ||||
1977 | New York Yankees–Kansas City | WPIX-TV | Phil Rizzuto | Frank Messer | Bill White |
KBMA-TV | Steve Shannon |
From 1969 to 1975, there was no official national radio network coverage of the League Championship Series. NBC only had the national radio rights to the All-Star Game and World Series during this period. Instead, national coverage was provided by local team radio broadcasts being syndicated nationally over ad hoc networks.
Year | Network | Play-by-play | Color commentators |
1969 | Robert Wold Radio | Buddy Blattner | Ernie Harwell |
From 1969 to present, with the exception of the period between 1969 and 1975, the non-national radio broadcasts of the American League Championship Series were broadcast on the flagship station and the radio network of the teams participating in the American League Championship Series.
Year | Teams | Flagship station | Play-by-play#1 | Play-by-play#2 | Color commentator(s) |
2009 | New York Yankees-Los Angeles Angels | WCBS-AM (New York Yankees) | John Sterling | Suzyn Waldman | |
KLAA-AM (Los Angeles Angels) | Terry Smith | Rory Markas | |||
2002 | Minnesota-Anaheim | KLAC (Anaheim) | Rory Markas | Terry Smith | |
WCCO–AM (Minnesota) | Herb Carneal (in Minnesota) John Gordon (in Anaheim) |
John Gordon (in Minnesota) Dan Gladden (in Anaheim) | |||
2000 | New York Yankees–Seattle | WABC-AM (New York Yankees) | John Sterling | Michael Kay | |
KIRO-AM (Seattle) | Dave Niehaus | Rick Rizzs | Ron Fairly |
Year | Teams | Flagship station | Play-by-play#1 | Play-by-play#2 | Color commentators |
1989 | Oakland–Toronto | ||||
1985 | Kansas City–Toronto |
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