mike tirico is calling the thursday night football game.
mike tirico is calling the thursday night football game.
who's calling the thursday night football game?
mike tirico
for 2017, cbs hired tony romo as its lead color commentator. numerous complications needed to be resolved, namely romo's reluctance to cover both sunday and thursday nights as required under the "thursday night football" contract, and the fact that simms remains under contract with cbs through the next several years. however, the network confirmed via press release that romo's duties would include sunday and thursday games.
thursday night football
in addition to the regional games, the league also has packages of telecasts, mostly in prime time, that are carried nationwide. nbc broadcasts the primetime "sunday night football" package', which includes the thursday nfl kickoff game that starts the regular season and a primetime thanksgiving day game. espn carries all monday night football games. the nfl's own network, nfl network, broadcasts a series titled "thursday night football", which was originally exclusive to the network, but which in recent years has had several games simulcast on cbs (since 2014) and nbc (since 2016) (except the thanksgiving and kickoff games, which remain exclusive to nbc). for the 2017 season, the nfl network will broadcast 18 regular season games under its "thursday night football" brand, 16 thursday-evening contests (10 of which are simulcast on either nbc or cbs) as well as one of the nfl international series games on a sunday morning and one of the 2017 christmas afternoon games. in addition, 10 of the thursday night games will be streamed live on amazon prime. in 2017, the nfl games occupied the top three rates for a 30-second advertisement: $699,602 for sunday night football, $550,709 for thursday night football (nbc), and $549,791 for thursday night football (cbs).
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