The NFL totaled its television take for four years at $3.677 billion Friday by concluding its negotiations with a $752 million deal with NBC for AFC games and the 1993 Super Bowl.
The league earned $476 million a season from television in pacts that ended last season. Each team will receive at least $32 million a year, compared to $17 million in 1989.NBC, which had paid $120 million a season under the old contract, will continue to air Sunday afternoon AFC games, one wild-card game per season and the divisional playoffs. Friday's deal also gave the network the rights to the 1993 Super Bowl at a West Coast site to be determined.
CBS had retained the highly desirable NFC television package Thursday, increasing the old price by 67 percent with a payment of $1.06 billion for four years. CBS will air Super Bowl XXVI in January 1992 in Minneapolis.
The NFC games on CBS earned a 13.8 rating in 1989, 25 percent more than the 11.0 registered for AFC games on NBC.
The NFL's immense television package began to play out Feb. 22 when Turner Broadcasting paid a reported $450 million for 35 regular-season games and 12 exhibition games over four years.
ESPN announced a similar deal Feb. 28. That cable network will show up to 13 games per season, each in the second half of the schedule, the Pro Bowl and exhibition games.
ABC fought off aggressive bids by CBS and the Fox Network to keep the Monday night package it has held for two decades. That deal, announced March 1, will mean another $925 million to the league. ABC's pact includes 17 games the first two years and 18 the third and fourth. The network will also broadcast two Saturday first-round playoff games each year and the next Super Bowl.
The league will award the 1994 Super Bowl within a year to a network for $40 million, a source said.
The league's timetable was to have all television deals in place before the owners' meetings, which begin this weekend in Orlando, Fla.