Network spokesman Mark Mandel said ABC withdrew its latest offer to televise the Sugar, Orange and Fiesta bowls, plus a fourth game that BCS officials want to add after the 2006 season, because it ...

NEW YORK - ABC has pulled its contract offer to the Bowl Championship Series, a move that could result in three of college football's biggest games moving to another network.

On a weekend in the Hunter Valley, Tony Ansell and Peter Wall composed the theme for ABC TV News that was used for 19 years. (Supplied: Peter Wall) And it's true that as soon as you hear it, you ...

The national title game rotates between the Sugar, Orange, Fiesta and Rose bowls every four years under the BCS. The Rose Bowl negotiates its own TV deal and recently re-signed with ABC through 2014.

But starting in 2011, ABC/ESPN will have all the major bowls, which sounds like the world’s greatest Christmas present to this college football fan. Actually, the BCS got the biggest present.

ABC’s broadcast of the “CITI BCS National Championship” drew an average audience of 30.8 million viewers and earned a 10.5 rating, 28 share among Adults 18-49.