Editing WBAL-TV (section)

===Sports programming===
In 1970, when the then-[[Baltimore Colts]] moved to the newly formed and realigned [[American Football Conference]] as part of the AFL–NFL merger of professional football of 1970, WBAL-TV displaced WMAR-TV (which had aired most of the team's games since 1956) as the station of record for the team (as NBC was the rightsholder for all AFC games). During its first season as such, the station provided coverage of the Colts' victory in [[Super Bowl V]] in 1971. This partnership continued until 1981, when WMAR-TV became the team's unofficial home station again for their last three seasons in Baltimore (although the station continued to air Colts games in those three seasons, they were limited to home interconference contests). When the reorganized [[Baltimore Ravens]] began play in 1996 after moving the old [[Cleveland Browns]] franchise to Maryland, WBAL-TV became the new team's station of record, but only for two seasons; in 1998, most games were moved to WJZ-TV. Presently, WBAL-TV airs any Ravens games when they play on NBC's ''[[NBC Sunday Night Football|Sunday Night Football]]'' and on ''[[Monday Night Football]]'' contests exclusive to ESPN, the latter being a benefit of Hearst's 20 percent ownership of ESPN.

The station aired any [[Baltimore Orioles]] baseball games as part of NBC's broadcast contract with Major League Baseball from the establishment of the new Orioles franchise in 1954 (move of the old [[St. Louis Browns]] to the city) until 1981; it also aired all of the Orioles' postseason games through NBC's limited contract from 1995 to 2000. During its time as a CBS station, WBAL-TV also broadcast select games involving the Orioles through CBS's MLB broadcast contract from 1990 to 1993. From 1964 until his retirement in 1995, Vince Bagli was WBAL-TV's [[sportscaster]]. His colleagues at the station called him the "Dean of Baltimore Sports".<ref>{{cite news|last=Campbell|first=Colin|title=Vince Bagli, longtime WBAL-TV sportscaster known as 'Dean of Baltimore sports', dies at 93|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/obituaries/bs-md-ob-vince-bagli-20201007-tm4j3cfqdzddpc2nodc37xy344-story.html|date=October 7, 2020|access-date=October 7, 2020}}</ref>