YouTube will have the exclusive national broadcast of the Chiefs-Chargers game from Brazil<\/a> on Friday, September 5. While Google-owned YouTube TV owns rights to NFL Sunday Ticket, the platform has never produced an NFL broadcast of its own. Last year, the Brazil game aired exclusively on Peacock, with NBC producing the game and using its own talent.<\/p>\nPhil Simms rejoins NBC for trio of college football games<\/p>\n
Former NBC NFL analyst Phil Simms is returning to the company as an analyst for three college football games this season, it was announced Tuesday. The three games in question will all be Big Ten matchups on Peacock, with Simms working alongside Paul Burmeister on Western Illinois-Illinois on August 29, Miami (Ohio)-Rutgers the following weekend, and a third game to be announced later.<\/p>\n
Best known for his nearly 20-year run as the lead NFL analyst for CBS from 1998-2016, Simms had a comparably brief stint with NBC from 1995-98 \u2014 but that still included two Super Bowl broadcasts and contributions to NBC properties like the Olympics and NBA.<\/p>\n
Simms lost his CBS analyst role after the 2016 season and was replaced by Tony Romo. He spent six more years with CBS as part of \u201cThe NFL Today\u201d before departing the show after the 2023 season.<\/p>\n
In returning to NBC, Simms joins a network that already employs his son Chris Simms in a prominent role.<\/p>\n
Plus: Chase Daniel, Nick Friedell, ESPN extensions, Nexstar-Tegna<\/p>\n
ESPN has hired former college quarterback and FS1 \u201cThe Facility\u201d co-host Chase Daniel as a college football analyst, according to Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office Sports. Daniel, who has also worked as an analyst for NFL Network, will work alongside Clay Matvick beginning with Duquesne-Pittsburgh on August 30.
\nFormer ESPN NBA reporter Nick Friedell will join The Athletic as the company\u2019s Golden State Warriors beat writer, per Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office Sports. Friedell has remained under contract with ESPN since being laid off two years ago.
\nESPN on Tuesday announced multi-year contract extensions with NFL analysts Field Yates and Alex Smith. Yates, who joined ESPN in 2012, will continue in his current roles making regular appearances on \u201cNFL Live\u201d and \u201cSportsCenter\u201d as well as the network\u2019s fantasy football and NFL Draft coverage. Smith, who is entering his fifth season with ESPN, will continue to appear on Sunday NFL Countdown and add appearances on the network\u2019s daily morning shows Get Up and First Take.
\nNexstar, the nation\u2019s largest station owner, has reached an agreement to acquire rival Tegna in a $6.2 billion deal, it was announced Tuesday. The deal would increase the number of Nexstar-owned stations from 201 to 265.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN is pulling the last exclusive NFL game from its ESPN+ service; YouTube has tapped \u201cDeestroying\u201d for its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[57345,21145,7,6,57346,7013],"class_list":{"0":"post-302745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-college-football-broadcasters","9":"tag-espn-broadcasters","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-nfl-broadcasters","13":"tag-nfl-on-espn"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115060058826009479","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}