Editing Super Bowl XVII (section)

===United States===
The game was televised in the [[United States]] by [[NFL on NBC|NBC]]. In the broadcast booth was [[Dick Enberg]] handling the [[play-by-play]] duties and [[color commentator]] [[Merlin Olsen]]. [[Len Berman]] and his ''[[The NFL on NBC Pregame Show#The NFL .7Binsert year.7D .281977-1986.29|NFL '82]]'' castmates, [[Mike Adamle]] (who also covered the [[Vince Lombardi Trophy]] presentation ceremony), [[Ahmad Rashad]] and [[Pete Axthelm]] anchored the pregame, halftime and postgame coverage. Locally, for each of their home teams, it was seen on local NBC affiliates [[WRC-TV]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] and WCKT-TV (whose callsign would become [[WSVN]] later that summer; it is now a [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] station since January 1, 1989) in [[Miami]], and for their home field it was seen on [[KNBC]] in Los Angeles.

The game was broadcast nationally on radio on [[NFL on Westwood One|CBS]], with [[Jack Buck]] handling the [[play-by-play]] duties and [[color commentator]] [[Hank Stram]] in the broadcast booth. [[Brent Musburger]] anchored the pregame, halftime, and postgame coverage with analysis from [[Irv Cross]] and [[Jimmy Snyder (sports commentator)|Jimmy Snyder]] for [[NFL on Westwood One|CBS]].  Locally, Super Bowl XVII was broadcast on [[WSBN|WMAL-AM]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] by [[Frank Herzog]], [[Sam Huff]] and [[Sonny Jurgensen]], and on [[WIOD-AM]] in [[Miami]], [[Florida]] by [[Rick Weaver]] and [[Hank Goldberg]].

NBC's national [[Nielsen rating]] of 48.6 was the second-highest for a Super Bowl broadcast, trailing only the 49.1 garnered by [[Super Bowl XVI]] on [[NFL on CBS|CBS]] the year before. NBC introduced a new theme for the game; a brass-based piece that would see usage in various forms (as game introduction; pregame introduction or bumper music) for most of the remainder of the decade.<ref>{{cite web|title=Super Bowl XVII Open|website = [[YouTube]]|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9sMD4EzgJ0| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140503174928/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9sMD4EzgJ0| archive-date=2014-05-03 | url-status=dead|access-date=June 18, 2013}}</ref>

Following the game, NBC aired the premiere episode of ''[[The A-Team]]'', beginning the regular tradition of the game's host network airing significant [[List of Super Bowl lead-out programs|Super Bowl lead-out programs]]. As a way to hype the show for [[NBC]], [[Mr. T]] was in attendance for the game.

The game is featured on ''NFL's Greatest Games'' under the title ''Hog Day Afternoon'', narrated by [[John Facenda]] and featuring interviews with Joe Bugel and radio commentary by Herzog, Jurgensen and Huff.