Here’s a take a look at how your weekly NFL viewing schedule will look and sound when the brand new season kicks off in September.
2021 announcers (Fox): Joe Buck and Troy Aikman
2022 announcers (Amazon Prime): Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit
Amazon pays the NFL round $1 billion for the rights to stream Thursday night time video games for the foreseeable future and reportedly pays Michaels and Herbstreit not less than $10 million every per yr to lend their well-known voices to the broadcasts.
Michaels has been the lead announcer for NBC’s Sunday night time video games since 2006 and referred to as his closing recreation for the community on the Super Bowl earlier this yr (it was his eleventh Super Bowl). Before that, he was the play-by-play announcer on ABC’s “Monday Night Football” broadcasts for 20 seasons, beginning in 1986.
Herbstreit will proceed to name school soccer video games for ESPN alongside along with his new NFL duties (although he additionally has supplied evaluation for a number of NFL video games at ESPN).
2021 lead announcers: Buck and Aikman
2022 lead announcers: Kevin Burkhardt and analyst TBD
With Buck and Aikman off to NBC (see under), Fox reportedly will replace the previous in its No. 1 sales space with Burkhardt, who has been calling NFL video games for the community since 2013. His broadcast accomplice has not but been recognized, although former NFL tight finish Greg Olsen — Burkhardt’s booth-mate in 2021 — is seen as a high candidate.
Buck had nothing however good issues to say about his former co-worker, who will probably be within the highlight when Fox airs subsequent season’s Super Bowl:
After 20 years of calling the @nflonfox I can’t inform you how excited I’m for @kevinburkhardt to take over. He’s terrific on the air and an exquisite individual. I may NOT be extra excited for him and @foxsports. Go kill it Kevin! Glad to be your good friend and out of your manner! Well completed
— Joe Buck (@Buck) March 28, 2022
2021 lead announcers: Jim Nantz and Tony Romo
2022 lead announcers: Nantz and Romo
The one supply of stability amongst NFL broadcast cubicles has been at CBS, the place Nantz and Romo will proceed a partnership that started in 2017. The two are underneath contract at CBS for the foreseeable future.
2021 announcers: Michaels and Cris Collinsworth
2022 announcers: Tirico and Collinsworth
NBC introduced Tirico’s ascension on Tuesday, a transfer lengthy anticipated, with Collinsworth remaining in the identical analyst spot he’s held for the previous 13 seasons.
With Michele Tafoya’s retirement, Melissa Stark will probably be NBC’s new Sunday night time sideline reporter, a job she held on ABC’s “Monday Night Football” from 2000 to 2002.
2021 announcers: Steve Levy, Brian Griese, Louis Riddick
2022 announcers: Buck and Aikman
Levy, Griese and Riddick didn’t go away a lot of a mark, lasting solely two seasons and watching the Manning brothers siphon off viewers to their simulcast present on ESPN2/ESPN Plus in 2021. Enter Buck and Aikman, whom ESPN lured away from Fox by making them the NFL’s highest-paid broadcast pair.