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NBC Sunday Night Football
NBC Sunday Night Football (abbreviated as SNF) is an American weekly television broadcast of National Football League (NFL) games on NBC and Peacock in the United States. It began airing on August 6, 2006, with the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, which opened that year's preseason. NBC took over the rights to the Sunday prime time game telecasts from ESPN, which carried the broadcasts from 1987 to 2005. At the same time, ESPN began broadcasting Monday Night Football when it was dropped from sister network ABC. Previously, NBC had aired American Football League (AFL), and later American Football Conference (AFC), games from 1965 until 1997, when CBS took over those rights.
During the 2011–12 season, Sunday Night Football became the first sports program to hold the position as Nielsen's most-watched program on American network television during the year, beating American Idol, which held that honor for eight consecutive seasons beginning in 2004; Sunday Night Football repeated this feat three years running, beginning with the 2013–14 season.
Upon NBC's assumption of the Sunday prime time game rights, Al Michaels, John Madden, Fred Gaudelli, and Drew Esocoff, who served as the respective play-by-play announcer, color commentator, lead producer, and director, joined SNF in the same positions they held during the latter portion of the ABC era of Monday Night Football. Madden retired prior to the 2009 season, and was succeeded in that role by Collinsworth. Tirico succeeded Michaels following Super Bowl LVI in February 2022.
Since 2014, sister cable channel Universo has carried Spanish-language simulcasts of select games, after years of aborted attempts to simulcast the games on Telemundo. As with the NFL's other television partners, NBC provides Spanish-language audio feed of the game broadcasts via second audio program (SAP), formerly noted as being "provided by Telemundo" before the rebranding of that entity's sports division to Telemundo Deportes. With the former mun2's relaunch on February 1, 2015, Universo began to carry the full season with the start of the 2015 season and simulcast Super Bowl XLIX, the channel carrying Spanish-language simulcasts of NFL games and NBC Sports properties. Telemundo would later carry Spanish language broadcasts of select games, beginning in 2021, with an NFL Wild Card game. Telemundo also broadcast Super Bowl LVI in 2022. Recently, TeleXitos has been a near simulcast of Universo programming at all hours and as a result has shown the football broadcasts.
NBC's broadcast begins at 7 p.m. Eastern Time with its pre-game show, which runs until kickoff (which usually occurs around 8:20 p.m. Eastern). The show serves the same purpose as NFL Primetime did for ESPN, offering recaps of the early action as well as a preview of the game to come. The show emanates from the NBC Sports studios in Connecticut as well as at the game site. Maria Taylor, Chris Simms, Jason Garrett, Devin McCourty, Mike Florio, and Matthew Berry broadcast from the studio while Jac Collinsworth, Tony Dungy, and Rodney Harrison report from the game. Tirico, Collinsworth, and Stark will also appear.
In 2021, a post-game show began airing on NBC's Peacock streaming service under the name Peacock Sunday Night Football Final. Originally hosted by Kathryn Tappen and Simms, it is currently hosted by Jac Collinsworth, Dungy, and Harrison.
NBC's current NFL contract, which runs from the 2023 season until the 2034 season, includes the rights to the season-opening Thursday night NFL Kickoff Game, another primetime game played on Thanksgiving Night, and at least two playoff games, one in the Wild Card round and one in the Divisional Playoffs, along with an additional Wild Card playoff game in 2023, 2026 and 2031 seasons. NBC will also air a Sunday primetime Wild Card game for 7 years from 2021 to 2027. NBC rotates the rights to the Super Bowl with other NFL television rights holders, obtaining the rights in 2026 (for Super Bowl LX), 2030 (for Super Bowl LXIV), and 2034 (for Super Bowl LXVIII), all in Winter Olympic years. Between 2006 and 2014, NBC also had rights to the Pro Bowl but lost it to ESPN/ABC from 2015 onward.
Between 2023 and 2028, NBC has the rights to one additional regular-season game to be exclusively aired on Peacock. In 2023, this was a matchup between the Buffalo Bills and the Los Angeles Chargers and the fourth quarter was presented commercial-free. In 2024, Peacock aired the Week 1 game between the Green Bay Packers and the Philadelphia Eagles on the Friday night following the Kickoff Game – in a matchup that was the first ever NFL fixture in Brazil. The NFL's media contract provides the rights for one Wild Card playoff game to be exclusively streamed and Peacock obtained the rights to air one during 2023–24 season in addition to the 2 Wild Card games NBC already had under the contract, which was a match up between the Chiefs and the Dolphins. From 2024 onwards, the exclusive streaming playoff game will be aired by Amazon Prime. All NBC NFL games on television are streamed on Telemundo Deportes in Spanish.
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NBC Sunday Night Football
NBC Sunday Night Football (abbreviated as SNF) is an American weekly television broadcast of National Football League (NFL) games on NBC and Peacock in the United States. It began airing on August 6, 2006, with the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, which opened that year's preseason. NBC took over the rights to the Sunday prime time game telecasts from ESPN, which carried the broadcasts from 1987 to 2005. At the same time, ESPN began broadcasting Monday Night Football when it was dropped from sister network ABC. Previously, NBC had aired American Football League (AFL), and later American Football Conference (AFC), games from 1965 until 1997, when CBS took over those rights.
During the 2011–12 season, Sunday Night Football became the first sports program to hold the position as Nielsen's most-watched program on American network television during the year, beating American Idol, which held that honor for eight consecutive seasons beginning in 2004; Sunday Night Football repeated this feat three years running, beginning with the 2013–14 season.
Upon NBC's assumption of the Sunday prime time game rights, Al Michaels, John Madden, Fred Gaudelli, and Drew Esocoff, who served as the respective play-by-play announcer, color commentator, lead producer, and director, joined SNF in the same positions they held during the latter portion of the ABC era of Monday Night Football. Madden retired prior to the 2009 season, and was succeeded in that role by Collinsworth. Tirico succeeded Michaels following Super Bowl LVI in February 2022.
Since 2014, sister cable channel Universo has carried Spanish-language simulcasts of select games, after years of aborted attempts to simulcast the games on Telemundo. As with the NFL's other television partners, NBC provides Spanish-language audio feed of the game broadcasts via second audio program (SAP), formerly noted as being "provided by Telemundo" before the rebranding of that entity's sports division to Telemundo Deportes. With the former mun2's relaunch on February 1, 2015, Universo began to carry the full season with the start of the 2015 season and simulcast Super Bowl XLIX, the channel carrying Spanish-language simulcasts of NFL games and NBC Sports properties. Telemundo would later carry Spanish language broadcasts of select games, beginning in 2021, with an NFL Wild Card game. Telemundo also broadcast Super Bowl LVI in 2022. Recently, TeleXitos has been a near simulcast of Universo programming at all hours and as a result has shown the football broadcasts.
NBC's broadcast begins at 7 p.m. Eastern Time with its pre-game show, which runs until kickoff (which usually occurs around 8:20 p.m. Eastern). The show serves the same purpose as NFL Primetime did for ESPN, offering recaps of the early action as well as a preview of the game to come. The show emanates from the NBC Sports studios in Connecticut as well as at the game site. Maria Taylor, Chris Simms, Jason Garrett, Devin McCourty, Mike Florio, and Matthew Berry broadcast from the studio while Jac Collinsworth, Tony Dungy, and Rodney Harrison report from the game. Tirico, Collinsworth, and Stark will also appear.
In 2021, a post-game show began airing on NBC's Peacock streaming service under the name Peacock Sunday Night Football Final. Originally hosted by Kathryn Tappen and Simms, it is currently hosted by Jac Collinsworth, Dungy, and Harrison.
NBC's current NFL contract, which runs from the 2023 season until the 2034 season, includes the rights to the season-opening Thursday night NFL Kickoff Game, another primetime game played on Thanksgiving Night, and at least two playoff games, one in the Wild Card round and one in the Divisional Playoffs, along with an additional Wild Card playoff game in 2023, 2026 and 2031 seasons. NBC will also air a Sunday primetime Wild Card game for 7 years from 2021 to 2027. NBC rotates the rights to the Super Bowl with other NFL television rights holders, obtaining the rights in 2026 (for Super Bowl LX), 2030 (for Super Bowl LXIV), and 2034 (for Super Bowl LXVIII), all in Winter Olympic years. Between 2006 and 2014, NBC also had rights to the Pro Bowl but lost it to ESPN/ABC from 2015 onward.
Between 2023 and 2028, NBC has the rights to one additional regular-season game to be exclusively aired on Peacock. In 2023, this was a matchup between the Buffalo Bills and the Los Angeles Chargers and the fourth quarter was presented commercial-free. In 2024, Peacock aired the Week 1 game between the Green Bay Packers and the Philadelphia Eagles on the Friday night following the Kickoff Game – in a matchup that was the first ever NFL fixture in Brazil. The NFL's media contract provides the rights for one Wild Card playoff game to be exclusively streamed and Peacock obtained the rights to air one during 2023–24 season in addition to the 2 Wild Card games NBC already had under the contract, which was a match up between the Chiefs and the Dolphins. From 2024 onwards, the exclusive streaming playoff game will be aired by Amazon Prime. All NBC NFL games on television are streamed on Telemundo Deportes in Spanish.