On the CBS broadcast, play-by-play announcers Jim Nantz and Phil Simms went silent. Sideline reporter Steve Tasker announced to viewers a "click of the lights" as the problem. Later, the halftime crew anchored by host James Brown returned to fill the time with football analysis. Brown said...
But the trend in broadcasting, particularly in covering the NFL, is toward youthful announcers."Everybody's looking for young people," Stram said Thursday night. "I think that had a lot to do with it."Buck's son, Joe, has been a prime beneficiary of that movement, ascending to a ...
The world of NFL announcers, Mowins said, is a "small fraternity and sorority." But, she said, it's an industry that requires a lot of patience and a lot of confidence. And, she added with a laugh, "quite honestly, you can't have a fallback position ... I knew this was it, ...
–I also list digital network feeds provided by various conferences. For some of these feeds, the audio will be a simulcast of the home team’s radio broadcast. Other online platforms have their own announcers. In the past, the digital networks I have included in the listings are those for...
[112] The contract was struck shortly before the AFC's emergence as the dominant NFL conference over the NFC, spurred in part by the turnaround of the New England Patriots in the 2000s. With the help of the AFC package, CBS surpassed NBC for first place in the 1998–1999 season; ...
This really shouldn’t come as a surprise if you recall the story that broke over the summer, when the league dictated to NBC which announcers the network was required to use on its Thursday and Sunday night broadcasts. In the professional football world, the NFL Network is state-run media...
sublicense and produce select C-USA football and basketball games that will broadcast exclusively on Facebook. The agreement allows for three football games and six basketball games per year to air on Facebook. The games will be a CBS Sports production, with CBS Sports announcers, graphics and...
And CBS agrees. “Taylor Swift is the greatest ad for the Super Bowl in history,” said a post on February 1. Taylor Swift will not be named the Super Bowl’s Most Valuable Player. But she should be honored as the NFL’s Most Valuable Person....
Focuses on the efforts of ABC and CBS television networks to maximize their investments in the National Football League (NFL). Major adjustments made by the stations to their announcing teams; Information on several programs...
Leonard Shapiro