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When Jason Benetti was hired as the top MLB announcer for NBC Sports’ new package earlier this year, baseball fans rejoiced. From his time calling local White Sox and Tigers games through his years at Fox, Benetti has long been a fan (and industry) favorite. Getting the Sunday Night Baseball job was his coronation. But…
The Royals could sweep the series against the Angels with a win tonight.
NBC Sports president Jon Miller offered a candid account this week of how the network convinced Major League Baseball to accept a below-market deal to return to broadcast television. Speaking with Puck’s John Ourand at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas, Miller confirmed that NBC was not the highest bidder when MLB…
On this week’s episode of the Awful Announcing Podcast, host Brandon Contes interviews Atlanta Braves TV announcer Brandon Gaudin. Gaudin discussed a wide range of topics on the podcast, including the inaugural season of BravesVision, replacing Chip Caray, succeeding Jim Nantz as the voice of Madden, NBC’s decision to use rotating analysts on Sunday Night…
BASEBALL fans have been left divided on Zac Brown Band’s theme song for Sunday Night Baseball. The country band was tapped to perform the song for NBC as TV chiefs…
NBC went country for its Sunday Night Baseball opening theme song, tapping the Zac Brown Band to star in its new open, which debuted on Sunday night on NBC and Peacock ahead of the Guardians-Braves game and will be used for every Sunday night game through the end of the season. And here it is. Zac…
The idea behind NBC’s rotating analyst model for Sunday Night Baseball was sound enough on paper. Jason Benetti — one of the best play-by-play voices in baseball, by most accounts — anchors every game, while former players with direct ties to the teams playing that week fill the analyst chairs beside him. Instead of a…
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…
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…
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Jason Benetti was born 10 weeks premature at the University of Chicago Hospital, where he spent the first three months of his life in the neonatal intensive care unit, connected to tubes and pumps, recovering from a respiratory illness that deprived his blood of oxygen. The cerebral palsy diagnosis came two years later, after doctor Read more... The post Jason Benetti puts what it means to be voice of ‘Sunday Night Baseball’ into perspective appeared first on Awful Announcing.
NBC has found its Sunday Night Baseball theme song, and it’s going country. The Zac Brown Band will star in NBC’s Sunday Night Baseball show open, according to Sports Business Journal’s Richard Deitsch. The open debuts April 12, airing on NBC and Peacock ahead of the Guardians-Braves game at 7 p.m. ET, then before every Read more... The post Zac Brown Band will perform ‘Sunday Night Baseball’ open for NBC appeared first on Awful Announcing.
NBC hasn’t been much of a player in MLB coverage in recent years, but the Universal network is returning to broadcast regular season baseball games for the 2026 season. In fact, there will be more diversity in MLB broadcasting than ever before this upcoming season, which officially begins on March 25 and will see Opening […] The post How to watch Sunday Night Baseball on NBC and Peacock appeared first on ClutchPoints.
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.
