On October 19, 1965 — NBC wins a Major League Baseball television package, including prime-time All-Star Game and World Series games.
Major League Baseball owners Tuesday accepted a $30.6 million offer from the National Broadcasting Co for television rights to the 1967 and 1968 World Series and All-Star games and a Game-Of-The-Week program from 1966 through 1968 Closing the lucrative deal delayed the owners in their closed-door sessions to pick a successor to Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick The moguls of the diamond promptly accepted the NBC bid after listening to a report from their television committee The package will pay $6.1 million for rights to televise the World Series and All-Star Games in 1967 and $6.5 million in 1968.
It will pay each club $300,000 per year for the game of the week TV rights in 1966, 1967, and 1968 John Fetzer, president of the Detroit Tigers and chairman of the Major Leagues Television Committee, reported the NBC offer and said it provided for an increase of 17 percent in World Series and All-Star rights over the two years NBC televised the World Series and All-Star Game this year for $3750000 and has the rights for 1966 at the same amount North American Broadcasting Co (ABC) televised a Game of The Week this year paying $300000 to every major league team except the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies. The Yankees will be included in the NBC package next year, and the Phillies will participate in night games under the program Fetzer said the Game Of The Week program would cover games on Saturday afternoon Monday Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday nights and holidays.
