With another NFL season approaching, the networks that broadcast the country’s most popular sport are set to make big changes.
ESPN are set to bring on two Hall-of-Fame bound contributors to the game in a Super Bowl winning center and a multi-Super Bowl winning head coach.
Meanwhile, FOX Sports is set to start paying the greatest quarterback of all-time over the course of ten years.
Elsewhere, there’s controversy surrounding the replacement of two longtime analysts on one network’s pre-game and post-game show.
Here, DailyMail.com takes a look at all the changes coming to America’s NFL broadcasting networks next season.
+10
View gallery
+10
View gallery
Both FOX Sports and ESPN have instituted changes in their NFL broadcasting lineups for 2024
ESPN
ESPN has seen a big overhaul in their Monday Night Football crew with the recent addition of two names to their broadcast team.
Bill Belichick is set to take a number of big roles within the company as the notoriously silent coach will suddenly become media savvy.
Belichick has planned to join The Pat McAfee Show on a weekly basis, as the coach and former punter agreed live on air at the NFL Draft.
The former Patriots coach is already believed to be in agreement to appear on the alternate ‘ManningCast’ of Monday Night Football in a recurring role.
But he’s not the only one set to make the jump to the Worldwide Leader in Sports – with retired Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce agreeing to join the pre-game desk for Monday Night Countdown.
The rest of the Monday Night Football crew remains largely intact – with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman remaining at the No. 1 broadcasting spot.
+10
View gallery
Bill Belichick is set to take a role on the ‘ManningCast’ and the Pat McAfee Show this year
+10
View gallery
Meanwhile, the recently retired Jason Kelce will be joining Monday Night Countdown
FOX
They say ‘go big or go home’ and there might not be anyone bigger to bring in than Tom Brady.
It was a few years ago that the quarterback inked a ten-year, $375million deal to become the No. 1 color commentator for FOX’s NFL coverage.
Now, as a part of the company’s top broadcast team with Kevin Burkhardt, Brady will be slapped onto the mid-to-late afternoon contests that FOX brands as ‘America’s Game of the Week’.
Brady will once again team up with Rob Gronkowski – who remains on the desk as an analyst for the pre-game and post-game shows alongside Michael Strahan, Terry Bradshaw, Jimmy Johnson, and Howie Long.
Above all, Brady will be on hand as FOX broadcasts Super Bowl LIX from New Orleans on February 9, 2025.
+10
View gallery
Tom Brady is set to finally fulfill his contract with FOX Sports he signed years ago
CBS
While the main commentary pair of Jim Nantz and Tony Romo goes unchanged, the analysis desk will look different.
After over 20 years each at the company, former quarterbacks Phil Simms and Boomer Esiason will not be back at CBS.
Replacing them full time will be former edge rusher JJ Watt and recently retired quarterback Matt Ryan.
CBS has slots in the early and mid-afternoons, carrying mostly AFC games throughout the calendar.
+10
View gallery
The biggest change for CBS is the addition of Matt Ryan to their pre-game show desk
+10
View gallery
Ryan and current analyst JJ Watt will step in to replace Boomer Esiason (L) and Phil Simms (R)
NBC
While NBC only broadcasts one game a week, they call the biggest game each week on Sunday Night Football.
Unlike the other three previously mentioned networks, NBC is not set to make any major changes to their broadcast lineup.
Mike Tirico and Cris Collinsworth remain in the booth and their on-air lineup featuring studio host Maria Taylor and analysts like Tony Dungy and Jason Garrett remains in tact.
+10
View gallery
+10
View gallery
Both Mike Tirico and Cris Collinsworth remain in their jobs as NBC doesn’t make any changes
Amazon Prime
The youngest network to routinely broadcast NFL games is not going to make any major changes either.
Amazon Prime continues with its Thursday Night Football slate with Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit in the booth.
Pre-game and post-game duties will still belong to Charissa Thompson and her panel of co-hosts including Ryan Fitzpatrick, Tony Gonzalez, Andrew Whitworth, and Richard Sherman.
+10
View gallery
Like NBC, Amazon doesn’t make any changes with Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit remaining
News
Hoop fans were bummed they couldn’t play as MJ in ‘NBA Live.’ Here’s why
THESE days, the franchise has long been eclipsed by 2K Sports’ NBA 2K series, but back in the late ‘90s, NBA Live was the basketball game to beat. As the 1996-1997 NBA season opened, NBA Live 97 was released to much fanfare. It was the first…
Michael Jordan: Why He’s a 6-Time Finals MVP, 6-for-6 Champion and G.O.A.T.
Michael Jordan is the only player in NBA history to never score less than 20 points in any of his Finals games but that is just one reason that every time the greatest player ever never once let his team…
14 Amazing Tales of Michael Jordan Being a Hypercompetitive Weirdo
As the ESPN documentary The Last Dance proves over and over, Michael Jordan’s life and career are full of stories that would be hard to believe if there weren’t cameras there to capture them. The intense, pathologic competitiveness, the ability to transcend…
A history of Michael Jordan in video games
Michael Jordan is a name that’s synonymous with basketball. Here’s his history with video games, which is as extensive as his professional career. Michael Jordan, a legend of the sport of basketball, and less so of baseball, turns 53 today….
‘That’s where the game changed’: When Michael Jordan credited THIS player for taking the NBA to the next level
The TV series, “They Call Me Magic” dropped in 2022. It narrates the early days of the Lakers legend, Magic Johnson’s NBA journey, from high school to college and the big leagues. Interestingly, Magic was inspired by Michael Jordan’s “The…
On this date: Michael Jordan makes his NBA debut for the Chicago Bulls
On this date, Michael Jordan started his NBA journey. However, his performance against the Washington Bullets was in no way a sign of things to come. MJ’s NBA debut Coming off the 1984 Olympics — Jordan averaged team-high 17.1 points to lead…
End of content
No more pages to load