Guest Big_Jay101 Report post Posted June 15, 2005 John Madden signed a deal with NBC for Sunday Night Football, which makes it more apparent that the ESPN crew will do the Monday night games. Monday Night games will be on ESPN. From the weirdest source possible-----MMAWeeklyRadio Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Black Lushus 0 Report post Posted June 15, 2005 Al Michaels is garbage with basketball games, but he HAS to be SOMEWHERE this upcoming NFL season...has he been placed anywhere yet? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bored 0 Report post Posted June 15, 2005 Fox should hire him for baseball. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Czech Republic 0 Report post Posted June 15, 2005 Yeah but if he's still teamed with Tim "strikeouts lower your batting average" McCarver, will it even matter? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zetterberg is God 0 Report post Posted June 15, 2005 It's confirmed: NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - John Madden is moving to NBC when the network resumes broadcasting National Football League games in the 2006-07 season, the network announced Wednesday. Madden, who has already worked doing NFL broadcasts at the three other major networks, will join the "Sunday Night Football" broadcasts on NBC, the first time that Sunday night show will be on broadcast television. Madden has been part of the team at ABC's "Monday Night Football" for the past three seasons and ABC confirmed that he will stay as part of the ABC team for the 2005-06 season, broadcasting the upcoming season's Super Bowl when ABC airs it. But after this coming season "Monday Night Football" will move to ESPN, which like ABC is owned by media conglomerate Walt Disney Co. (Research) And neither ABC nor ESPN will be part of the rotation of networks that will get to broadcast Super Bowls during the six-year life of the NFL rights deals. By moving to NBC Madden is set to broadcast his 11th Super Bowl on NBC in 2009. "I have been doing this a long time and when I went to ABC to do 'Monday Night Football,' I thought I would finish my career there," said Madden in a statement released by NBC. "But when the NFL did this new television deal, I looked at 'NBC's Sunday Night Football' package, and I thought this really fits me well." NBC is a unit of General Electric Co. (Research) The network has generally been conservative in recent years pursuing most high-priced sports rights deals. It lost the rights to the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball and the NFL to other networks in a five-year period beginning in 1997. But with NBC losing its traditional lead in overall ratings, it has decided to get back in the bidding for the NFL games, agreeing to a $3.6 billion, six-year deal with the NFL in April. Madden had originally worked for CBS in its NFL coverage, and moved to Fox for the 1994 season when the then-upstart network won the NFL rights away from CBS. Fox allowed Madden to leave for ABC in 2002 with a year left on his Fox contract. Besides his experience as a broadcaster and NFL coach, his name graces one of the most popular video games from Electronic Arts (Research). "John is much more than a football legend, he's an American icon," said a statement from Dick Ebersol, chairman of NBC Universal Sports. "He is the only sports television talent who resonates across all ages - kids grow up today playing his video game and watching him on TV, as their fathers grew up watching him on NFL sidelines every Sunday." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
starvenger 0 Report post Posted June 15, 2005 So I guess Madden's hit for the cycle in terms of networks? I wonder how this affects EA? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrRant 0 Report post Posted June 15, 2005 It doesn't this year as Madden is still working for ABC/ESPN/Disney. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Mosaicv2 Report post Posted June 16, 2005 Fox should hire him for baseball. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You know what... that's actually a pretty good (great) idea. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vasarian_Brandy 0 Report post Posted June 16, 2005 So I guess Madden's hit for the cycle in terms of networks? I wonder how this affects EA? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I heard ruminations that EA Sports is dropping their relationship with Madden as it is after Madden '06. Tried to find something on EA Sports' website, but couldn't. But in all honesty, I doubt it would affect much. Madden was under contract with EA to do football for them. Kruk and Kuip for baseball. Nessler / Corso / Herbstreit for college pigskin. All rival networks and such, but all under contract from EA to be the PBP talent for their games. If the College Gameday guys can be in a "rival" game (as opposed to ESPN's brand of College Football), that says it all right there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
