Editing Super Bowl XXII (section)

==Broadcasting==
The game was broadcast in the United States by [[NFL on ABC|ABC]]. The broadcast featured with [[play-by-play|play-by-play announcer]] [[Al Michaels]] and [[color commentator]]s [[Frank Gifford]] and [[Dan Dierdorf]]. [[Keith Jackson]] hosted the pregame, halftime, and postgame coverage for ABC, joined by analysts [[Lynn Swann]] and [[Mike Adamle]] as well as then [[1987 Cleveland Browns season|Cleveland Browns]] head coach [[Marty Schottenheimer]] and then [[1987 Minnesota Vikings season|Minnesota Vikings]] head coach [[Jerry Burns]]. [[Bob Griese]] was originally planned to co-host with Jackson, but had to bow out due his wife Judi who was in the late stages of breast cancer, from which she died on February 15, 1988.<ref>{{cite web |title=Judi Griese, wife of ex-Dolphin Bob Griese, dies of cancer at age 44 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XEpUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=g40DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5850%2C5062757 |website=Google News Search Archive |publisher=Boca Raton News |access-date=12 January 2020 |location=Boca Raton, FL |page=5B |date=February 15, 1988}}</ref> Also helping with ABC's coverage were [[Jack Whitaker]], [[Jim Hill (American football)|Jim Hill]] and [[Becky Dixon]]. This was the first Super Bowl broadcast on ABC with the broadcast team of Michaels, Gifford, and Dierdorf in the booth (as the 1987 season was the first year the trio was together, with Dierdorf moving to ABC from CBS; Gifford was the only holdover from ABC's [[Super Bowl XIX]] telecast). The trio went on to man the booth for ABC's ''[[Monday Night Football]]'' from 1987 to 1997 and called Super Bowls [[Super Bowl XXV|XXV]] and [[Super Bowl XXIX|XXIX]].

The game was broadcast nationally on radio by [[NFL on Westwood One|CBS]], with [[Jack Buck]] handling the [[play-by-play]] duties and [[color commentator]] [[Hank Stram]] in the broadcast booth, and [[Jim Hunter (sportscaster)|Jim Hunter]] reporting from the sidelines.  [[Brent Musburger]] anchored the Super Bowl XXII pregame, halftime, and postgame coverage with analysis from [[Will McDonough]] and [[Jimmy Snyder (sports commentator)|Jimmy Snyder]] for [[NFL on Westwood One|CBS]].  Locally, Super Bowl XXII was broadcast on [[WSBN|WMAL-AM]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] by [[Frank Herzog]], [[Sam Huff]] and [[Sonny Jurgenson]], and on [[KOA (AM)|KOA-AM]] in [[Denver]], [[Colorado]] by Bob Martin and Larry Zimmer.

ABC's [[List of Super Bowl lead-out programs|Super Bowl lead-out programs]] was the series debut of ''[[The Wonder Years]]''. This was only the second successful series to debut following a Super Bowl up to that time (''[[The A-Team]]'', which had premiered following [[Super Bowl XVII]], was the first). ''The Wonder Years'' was a late switch by ABC, which had initially scheduled the two-hour premiere of ''[[China Beach]]'', but concerns about the game running long and potentially pushing the premiere episode's conclusion after midnight Eastern Time contributed to the program change.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1988/BC-1988-01-18.pdf#page=111 | page=121 | title=In Brief | website=www.americanradiohistory.com}}</ref>

The game  was simulcast in Canada on [[CTV Television Network|CTV]] and in the United Kingdom on [[Channel 4]].  It was also the first Super Bowl in which Mexico's [[Televisa]] brought a team of its own (instead of relying on the U.S. signal with comments made from Mexico City), airing on its [[Canal de las Estrellas]].

The [[NFL Films]] ''NFL's Greatest Games'' highlight film was titled ''Ambush at Super Bowl XXII''; and was the first such highlight film to feature former [[Boston]] and [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]] radio personality [[Jefferson Kaye|Jeff Kaye]] as its narrator.