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==Broadcasting==
The game was broadcast in the [[United States]] by [[NFL on CBS|CBS]], including local affiliates [[WIVB]] in Buffalo and [[WUSA-TV]] in Washington, and featured the broadcast team of [[Sports commentator|play-by-play announcer]] [[Pat Summerall]] and [[color commentator]] [[John Madden]] for the fifth time. [[Lesley Visser]], [[Jim Gray (sportscaster)|Jim Gray]], and [[Pat O'Brien (television)|Pat O'Brien]] reported on the sidelines; Visser would later preside over the presentation of the [[Vince Lombardi Trophy|Lombardi Trophy]] to the Redskins, becoming the first woman to do so. ''[[The NFL Today|The Super Bowl Today]]'' was hosted by [[Greg Gumbel]] and [[Terry Bradshaw]] with [[Randy Cross]] and [[Dan Fouts]] contributing team reports, and Visser, Madden, Jim Gray, [[Bernard Goldberg]] and [[Mike Francesa]] (among others) contributing feature segments.
 
This would be the last Super Bowl to air on CBS until [[Super Bowl XXXV]] at the end of the [[2000 NFL season|2000 season]]. CBS lost the [[National Football Conference|NFC]] package to [[NFL on Fox|Fox]] following the [[1993 NFL season|1993 season]], leaving the network without the NFL until it acquired the [[American Football Conference|AFC]] package from [[NFL on NBC|NBC]] for the [[1998 NFL season|1998 season]]. Super Bowl XXVI was not originally in CBS' rotation; since it had just broadcast [[Super Bowl XXIV]] two years earlier. CBS would have received [[Super Bowl XXVII]] as part of the rotation while NBC would have aired Super Bowl XXVI. Instead, the NFL made an exception for CBS, which had acquired the rights to the [[1992 Winter Olympics]] (which started 13 days later), and allowed the network to air the Super Bowl as a lead-in program for its [[CBS Olympic broadcasts|Olympics coverage]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Draper |first=Kevin |date=February 5, 2018 |title=NBC's Super Bowl Win (Everyone Knows About the Olympics Now, Right?) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/sports/football/super-bowl-ratings.html |access-date=February 12, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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