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A staple of NBC’s golf coverage is taking on a new role. Cara Banks, who joined Golf Channel in 2015 as a host of Morning Drive and is now an integral member of NBC Sports’ golf team as a reporter, will step into the booth during this weekend’s coverage of the Chevron Championship, one of the…
Awful Announcing has learned that Matthew Berry is unlikely to return to Football Night in America next season. Berry joined NBC in August 2022 on a multi-year deal after 15 years at ESPN, where he left partly because the network wanted him to shut down his Fantasy Life brand as a condition of staying. NBC…
Tomlin was widely considered the top NFL TV free agent.
NBC Sports is making OT7 a television property. The network announced a programming, distribution, and sales partnership with Overtime on Thursday, becoming the media home of OT7’s postseason and championship weekend. Select playoff and championship games will air June 13-14 at 2 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock. OT7 is Overtime’s high school football league,…
Dexter Fowler is joining NBC Sports’ MLB coverage for the 2026 season. The All-Star outfielder will debut on Easter Sunday as a pregame analyst for the Cardinals-Tigers game on Sunday Night Baseball, airing at 7 p.m. ET on Peacock and NBCSN. Per NBC Sports PR, Fowler will contribute throughout the season in a pregame analyst…
NBC SPORTS rising star Olivia Garvey dazzled in her latest outfit, leaving fans stunned. The glam daughter of Los Angeles Dodgers baseball legend Steve Garvey rocked a revealing black top…
An NBC host is giving an apology after using the wrong crash photo of Tiger Woods following his recent DUI arrest. During the broadcast on Saturday, March 28, NBC Sports issued a correction of the photo they used while reporting on Woods’ March 27 Florida crash. Instead of using a photo from the athlete’s recent […] The post NBC host reacts to sharing wrong Tiger Woods crash photo appeared first on ClutchPoints.
This originally appeared in Tuesday morning’s edition of The A Block, Awful Announcing’s daily newsletter with the latest sports media news, commentary, and analysis. Sign up here and be the first to know everything going on in the sports media world. As NBC has returned to NBA and MLB broadcasting over the past year, staffers have…
Jason Benetti revealed during Sunday night’s sign-off of Guardians-Mariners that this week’s Sunday Night Baseball broadcast — Cardinals at Tigers on April 6 — will feature Brad Thompson and Andy Dirks. Benetti confirmed during the sign-off last night that next Sunday’s analysts for St. Louis-Detroit will be Brad Thompson from the Cardinals and Andy Dirks…
NBC Sports broadcaster Mike Tirico is stepping away from Masters radio coverage for 2026
WNBA star Caitlin Clark is making a major appearance on Sunday as she prepares for her third season with the Indiana Fever.
Matt Vasgersian is not calling every Sunday Leadoff game this season, and NBC’s executive producer Sam Flood made clear Monday that the network already has a plan for when he can’t. On NBC Sports’ MLB preview media conference call, Flood confirmed that a second play-by-play announcer has agreed to handle the Leadoff dates Vasgersian won’t Read more... The post NBC will hire another ‘Sunday Leadoff’ play-by-play voice appeared first on Awful Announcing.
After months of speculation that he was the leading candidate to become NBC’s lead MLB play-by-play announcer, Jason Benetti was officially announced for that role earlier this month. Benetti, who is also the TV voice of the Detroit Tigers, had been doing play-by-play work for Fox Sports since 2002. However, when he got the call Read more... The post Jason Benetti explains how he left Fox early to become NBC’s MLB play-by-play announcer appeared first on Awful Announcing.
NBC promised to feature MLB analysts with ties to the teams they would cover in its broadcasts, and it has followed through on its Opening Day coverage teams. MLB Network analyst and former New York Mets pitcher Al Leiter and former Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Neil Walker are serving as the game analysts for the Read more... The post Orel Hershiser, Luis Gonzalez to call MLB Opening Day for NBC appeared first on Awful Announcing.
WNBA games are returning to NBC for the first time since 2002. The post Noah Eagle, Michael Grady, Zora Stephenson to Call WNBA on NBC appeared first on Front Office Sports.
The World Series legends will join Jason Benetti in the broadcast booth. The post Orel Hershiser, Luis Gonzalez Join NBC MLB Opening Day Coverage appeared first on Front Office Sports.
