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In addition to these individual games, TVS was a pioneer in bringing college basketball to a national scope-first by their own efforts in the early 1970s, primarily with Dick Enberg and Rod Hundley ( sometimes Enberg and Hundley would call a Pac-8 game on a Friday night, fly to the midwest for the TVS game of the week on Saturday afternoon, and then head back to the west coast to call a Pac-8 game on Saturday night ), then in 1976, teaming with NBC Sports in a cooperative effort to regionalize NBC's coverage ( NBC / local talent, TVS production crews ).

This partnership lasted through 1983, though it was hampered in later years by NBC losing the rights to the NCAA Division I Men's College Basketball Tournament to CBS Sports in 1982.

After the NBC partnership ended, TVS went back to regionalizing games on their own in 1984-a forerunner to the regionalization you see today.