List of National League Championship Series broadcasters
The following is a list of the national television and radio networks and announcers that have broadcast National League Championship Series games over the years. It does not include any announcers who may have appeared on local broadcasts produced by the participating teams.
National television
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1990s
1980s
1970s
1969
Surviving telecasts
For all of the League Championship Series telecasts spanning from 1969 to 1975, only Game 2 of the 1972 American League Championship Series is known to exist. 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. This is all that likely remains of anything from that third game of the Orioles-Twins series.While all telecasts of World Series games starting with are accounted for and exist, the LCS is still a spotty situation through the late 1970s:
- 1976 ALCS - Only Game 5 from the ABC vault is known to exist.
- 1976 NLCS - An off-air recording of Game 3, taped in the Portland market is the only game that is known to exist. Apparently, this copy which makes the trade circuit is the only extant version because a second-hand story says that the ABC vault copy has no sound.
- 1977 - Major League Baseball has in the vault, Game 3 of the NLCS and apparently has all of Game 4 of the NLCS. Also, both the WPIX and NBC versions of Game 5 of the ALCS are known to exist. Earlier games of the NLCS and ALCS have not surfaced and may not exist in the vault.
- 1978 - Trade collectors have all four games of the ALCS but only Game 4 of the NLCS.
Local television
1960s
National radio
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.2010s
2000s
1990s
1980s
1970s
1969
Local radio
From 1969 to present, with the exception of the period between 1969 and 1975, the non-national radio broadcasts of the National League Championship Series we're broadcast on the flagship station and the radio network of the teams participating in the National League Championship Series.2000s
1980s
| Year | Teams | Flagship station | Play-by-play#1 | Play-by-play#2 | Color commentators |
| 1989 | San Francisco-Chicago | KNBR WGN-AM | Hank Greenwald Harry Caray | Ron Fairly Dewayne Staats | Dave Nelson |
| 1986 | New York -Houston |