Editing Super Bowl XX (section)

==Broadcasting==
The game was broadcast in the United States by [[NFL on NBC|NBC]], with [[Play-by-play|play-by-play announcer]] [[Dick Enberg]], and [[color commentator]]s [[Merlin Olsen]] and [[Bob Griese]]. Griese worked in a separate booth from Enberg and Olsen.<ref name=BizOffFootball>{{cite web |url=http://www.bizoffootball.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=373:complete-history-of-the-super-bowl-on-nbc&catid=40:television&Itemid=57 |title=Complete History of the Super Bowl on NBC |publisher=Bizoffootball.com |date=January 31, 2009 |access-date=August 24, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101213060420/http://bizoffootball.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=373:complete-history-of-the-super-bowl-on-nbc&catid=40:television&Itemid=57 |archive-date=December 13, 2010 }}</ref> [[Bob Costas]] and his ''[[The NFL on NBC Pregame Show#The NFL .7Binsert year.7D (1977-1986)|NFL '85]]'' castmates, [[Ahmad Rashad]] and [[Pete Axthelm]] anchored the pregame, halftime and postgame coverage. Other contributors included [[Charlie Jones (sportscaster)|Charlie Jones]] (recapping [[Super Bowl I]]), [[Larry King]] (interviewing [[Mike Ditka]] and [[Raymond Berry]]), and [[Bill Macatee]] (profiling Patriots owner [[Billy Sullivan (American football)|Billy Sullivan]] and his family). The pregame coverage also included a skit featuring comedian [[Rodney Dangerfield]], an interview by ''[[NBC Nightly News]]'' anchor [[Tom Brokaw]] of [[President of the United States|United States President]] [[Ronald Reagan]] at the [[White House]] (this would not become a regular Super Bowl pregame feature until [[Super Bowl XLIII]], when ''[[Today (U.S. TV program)|Today show]]'' host [[Matt Lauer]] interviewed U.S. President [[Barack Obama]]) and a concept devised by then-NBC Sports executive [[Michael Weisman]] which became known as the "Silent Minute,"<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1989/05/11/taking-a-silent-minute-to-note-cancellation-of-producer-who-produced/59031a6d-ceb5-4982-83c9-22c82ad5330c/ Chad, Norman. "Taking a Silent Minute to Note Cancellation of Producer Who Produced," ''The Washington Post'', Thursday, May 11, 1989.] Retrieved January 15, 2023.</ref> a one-minute countdown featuring a black screen with a [[digital clock]] which morphed into [[Roman numerals]] when it reached twenty seconds remaining and accompanied by [[Leroy Anderson]]'s "[[The Syncopated Clock]]."<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1986/01/27/hut-one-hut-two-hype-hype-hypeon-the-tube-a-bowl-binge/e26edb4e-907b-47f7-9d30-5f5c182122e4/ Shales, Tom. "Hut One, Hut Two, Hype!, Hype!, Hype! On the Tube, A Bowl Binge," ''The Washington Post'', Monday, January 27, 1986.] Retrieved January 15, 2023.</ref>

The national radio broadcast was aired by [[NFL on NBC Radio|NBC Radio]], which outbid CBS Radio for the nationwide NFL contract in March 1985. [[Don Criqui]] was the play-by-play announcer, with [[Bob Trumpy]] as the color analyst. [[WGN-AM]] carried the game in the Chicago area (and thanks to WGN's 50,000-watt clear-channel signal, to much of the continental United States), with [[Wayne Larrivee]] on play-by-play, and [[Jim Hart (American football)|Jim Hart]] and [[Dick Butkus]] providing commentary. [[WEZE|WEEI]] carried the game in the Boston area, with [[John Carlson (sportscaster)|John Carlson]] and [[Jon Morris]] on the call.

NBC's broadcast garnered the third highest [[Nielsen rating]] of any Super Bowl to date at 48.3, but it ended up being the first Super Bowl to garner over 90 million viewers, the highest ever at that time.

The series premiere of ''[[The Last Precinct]]'' was [[NBC]]'s [[List of Super Bowl lead-out programs|Super Bowl lead-out program]].

Super Bowl XX was simulcast in Canada on [[CTV Television Network|CTV]] and broadcast on [[Channel 4]] in the United Kingdom. [[Canal 5 (Mexico)|Canal 5]] also had the game in Mexico, with [[Play-by-play|play-by-play announcer]]s [[Toño de Valdés]], [[Enrique Burak]] and [[color commentator]] [[Pepe Segarra]]. This was the first Super Bowl that this long lasting trio ever called together.<ref>{{Cite web |last=García-Valseca |first=Ricardo Vaquier |date=July 2, 2023 |title=¿Cuántos Super Bowl llevan juntos Toño de Valdés, Burak y Segarra? |url=https://www.mediotiempo.com/otros-mundos/television/cuantos-super-bowl-han-narrado-juntos-tono-de-valdes-enrique-burak-y-pepe-segarra |access-date=September 29, 2023 |website=Mediotiempo |language=es}}</ref>

Super Bowl XX is featured on ''NFL's Greatest Games'' under the title ''Super Bears'' with narration by [[Don LaFontaine]].