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Al Michaels, who in March exited NBC’s flagship Sunday Night Football booth after 16 seasons to join the new Thursday Night Football franchise at Amazon, isn’t exiting his former home completely. NBC Sports said Tuesday that it has signed Michaels to an “emeritus role,” a deal that the network said will see him…

NBC announced last month that Mike Tirico would replace the legendary Al Michaels as the voice of Sunday Night Football. Now, the network has revealed the rest of the team. It’s now confirmed that Michaels’ stalwart broadcast partner, Cris Collinsworth, will join Tirico for what will be Collinsworth’s 14th season in…

Al Michaels, considered the dean of NFL announcers, will helm Prime Video’s exclusive Thursday Night Football livestreams this fall, alongside ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit. Amazon made the news official today, though it has been in the wind (at least the Michaels part) for months. The tech giant will kick off its 11-year…

After the legendary Al Michaels all but confirmed his move to Amazon to call games as part of the streamer’s new NFL package, NBC announced today that Mike Tirico will “join Cris Collinsworth full-time in the booth this season" for Sunday Night Football. The announcement would seem to confirm Michaels’ exit. Tirico…

Al Michaels, the giant of sports broadcasting who is nearing the end of his contract with NBC for Sunday Night Football, seems increasingly likely to be the first marquee booth hire at Amazon. The play-by-play man all but confirmed the shift during a podcast interview with Sports Illustrated, which was posted this…

NBC’s perennially top-rated Sunday Night Football broadcasts will sound fairly normal this fall, executive producer Fred Gaudelli promised Thursday, but they will feature fewer crowd shots due to few if any fans attending games. Gaudelli joined play-by-play voice Al Michaels, analyst Cris Collinsworth and sideline…

As it prepares to broadcast Super Bowl LII on Sunday, NBC is coping with challenges that didn’t exist when it last had the big game in 2015. During a conference call with the media today, producers, talent and top exec Mark Lazarus addressed topics such as the NFL’s TV ratings vulnerability, anthem protests, and the…

If NFL players choose to kneel during the national anthem at Super Bowl LII next month, “they’ll be shown live” on NBC, said the game’s executive producer Fred Gaudelli today at TCA. That said, Gaudelli doesn’t expect much to happen. “Since Thanksgiving much of that has dissipated,” he said. But if NFL players decided…

NBC, which is broadcasting Super Bowl XLIX on February 1, had a news conference about the game today at Winter TV Press Tour. Reporters learned many important things: Carrie Underwood might have to go back into the studio to record the names of the two teams for her already recorded Official Super Bowl XLIX tune…