Brodie Brazil, the longtime studio host for Oakland A\u2019s and San Jose Sharks pre- and postgame shows on NBC Sports California, announced Thursday that his time with the cable network will soon end.<\/p>\n
Brazil said his final show with NBC Sports will be Sept. 29 when the A\u2019s play the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park in their final game in \u201cOakland\u201d uniforms.<\/p>\n
A source indicated that Brazil\u2019s contract wasn\u2019t renewed by the network, which will continue to broadcast A\u2019s games while the team is in Sacramento.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m heartbroken to tell you that my time at NBC Sports is soon coming to an end,\u201d Brazil said on his YouTube channel, which has over 46,000 subscribers. \u201cAs of right now when the A\u2019s play their final game wearing Oakland across their chest on Sept. 29, it will also be my final show, after thousands at the network, since 2009.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo satisfy your instant curiosities, nothing happened, But in the same breath, I don\u2019t really have any answers to your likely questions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brazil, a Castro Valley native and a 13-time Regional Emmy Award winner, lamented that the news came at the end of a tumultuous 2024 A\u2019s season, which began with the team announcing in early April that it will play in Sacramento for at least three years, starting in 2025, ahead of the team\u2019s planned move to Las Vegas in 2028. The move will end the team\u2019s 57-year run at the Coliseum.<\/p>\n
NBC Sports California has also been a longtime broadcast partner of the Sharks, who begin their regular season in October.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat hits even harder \u2026 is how much I\u2019ll miss my other main role at the network: covering the San Jose Sharks for NBC Sports,\u201d said Brazil, a graduate of San Jose State. \u201cTo much sadness, and frustration, that is also going away, effective immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Brazil said he plans to remain in sports media and that he will remain active on YouTube. He hopes to stay in the Bay Area, but he added, \u201cI\u2019m a person of many interests, and it will be interesting to see how wide the horizon actually is and maybe what kinds of chances are about to come my way. I am extremely motivated to find what\u2019s next and then lean all the way into it, just like I did these last 16 years at NBC.\u201d<\/p>\n
Please check back for updates to this story. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Originally Published: September 5, 2024 at 10:08 AM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brodie Brazil, the longtime studio host for Oakland A\u2019s and San Jose Sharks pre- and postgame shows on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[13114,25419,2616,2617,13116,5,2614,1180,560,22321,4,2739,15899,5192,519,168,5306,5305,2618,1780,2615,2619,43,2676,1892,7991],"class_list":{"0":"post-144441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose-sharks","8":"tag-alameda-county","9":"tag-athletics-alert","10":"tag-bay-area","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-east-bay","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-inside-sports","15":"tag-latest-headlines","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-morning-report-news","18":"tag-nhl","19":"tag-oakland","20":"tag-oakland-athletics","21":"tag-pm-report","22":"tag-san-jose","23":"tag-san-jose-sharks","24":"tag-sanjose","25":"tag-sanjosesharks","26":"tag-santa-clara-county","27":"tag-sharks","28":"tag-sharks-alert","29":"tag-south-bay","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-things-to-do","32":"tag-tv","33":"tag-tv-streaming"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114949926677517024","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}