Football on the Air
Network pool
Network pool · 1951–1974
Broadcasts
9
Cadence
Twice weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1951
The run
- Network
- Network pool
- Years active
- 1951–1974
- Surviving broadcasts
- 9
- Genre
- news
Surviving football radio material: Notre Dame's Fighting Irish broadcasts with head coach Terry Brennan in 1954, Armed Forces Network football scoreboard round-ups from October 1951, and a later World Football League game carried in full. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
3 dated broadcasts across 76 years on the air, with 75 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 2026, in original transmission order.
- 1. Dead Air · 9 Jun 2026
- 2. The Long Silence · 16 Jun 2026
- 3. A Room Above the Street · 23 Jun 2026
- 01
Dead Air
4 Aug 2026 · 32 min
- 02
Sign Off
28 Jul 2026 · 47 min
- 03
The Case of the Missing Hour
21 Jul 2026 · 1h 2m
- 04
Night Broadcast
14 Jul 2026 · 25 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
- 05
The Last Train Out
7 Jul 2026 · 40 min
- 06
Signal at Midnight
30 Jun 2026 · 55 min
- 07
A Room Above the Street
23 Jun 2026 · 18 min
- 08
The Long Silence
16 Jun 2026 · 33 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
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