FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, July 28, 2022
NBC SPORTS KICKS OFF 2022 NFL SEASON AT HALL OF FAME GAME WITH FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA ON SITE IN CANTON FOR FIRST TIME
Jaguars-Raiders coverage begins Thursday, August 4 on NBC and Peacock with Football Night in America at 7 pm ET followed by the 2022 Hall of Fame Game at 8 pm ET. This may interest you : Title IX 50th Anniversary: How the Law Has Changed American Sport.
Sunday Night Football Team of Mike Tirico, Cris Collinsworth and Melissa Stark to call the first game together
The football night team of Maria Taylor, Tony Dungy, Rodney Harrison, Jason Garrett, Chris Simms, Jac Collinsworth and Mike Florio will be on site in Canton, Ohio.
NBC News correspondent Stephanie Gosk will report from Canton for TODAY and NIGHT
STAMFORD, Conn. – July 28, 2022 – One week from today, NBC Sports began its coverage of the 2022 NFL season with the 2022 Hall of Fame Game between the Jacksonville Jaguars and Las Vegas Raiders from Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio. Coverage begins Thursday, Aug. 4, on NBC and Peacock with Football Night in America at 7 p.m. ET followed by coverage of the game at 8 p.m. ET.
Calling the preseason contest will be the newly announced Sunday Night Football team of Mike Tirico, Cris Collinsworth and Melissa Stark, with Terry McAulay serving as rules analyst. It will be the first time the team will call a game together.
Football Night, the most watched studio show in sports, will be on location in Canton for the first time. The Football Night team of Maria Taylor, Tony Dungy, Rodney Harrison, Jason Garrett, Chris Simms, Jac Collinsworth and Mike Florio will present player and coach interviews, a preview of the game and the 2022 NFL season, and celebrate the players who are inducted into the Hall. of Fame that weekend. This will be the first time the new Football Night team is together. It was announced earlier this year that Taylor will serve as the show’s new host and Garrett as a new analyst.
NBC News correspondent Stephanie Gosk will also be on site in Canton to report on the news and festivities surrounding the game for TODAY and NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.
This year’s Hall of Fame class includes tackle Tony Boselli, wide receiver Cliff Branch, safety LeRoy Butler, official Art McNally, linebacker Sam Mills, defensive end/defensive tackle Richard Seymour, coach Dick Vermeil and defensive tackle/defensive young .
Sunday Night Football is the NFL’s premier prime-time package, has won the Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Sports Series a record 11 times, and has been the No. 1 television show. 1 in primetime across all key metrics for an unprecedented 11 consecutive years. In 2021, Sunday Night Football averaged a Total Audience Delivery of 19.3 million viewers on NBC, Peacock and other digital platforms.
The Emmy-nominated night of football begins at 7 p.m. ET each week during the NFL regular season on NBC and Peacock and provides afternoon game highlights and analysis, interviews with high-profile players and coaches, breaking news, and an extensive preview of that night’s Sunday Night Football matchup. Since its inception in 2006, Football Night has been the most-watched studio show in sports. In 2021, the program averaged 7.1 million viewers, up 18% from the previous season.
For the second straight season, Peacock will air all NBC Sunday Night Football games live, including the playoffs and Night Football. Peacock’s exclusive Sunday Night Football finale returns in 2022 with expanded post-game coverage following SNF each week.
Following its presentation of the Hall of Fame game, NBC Sports begins coverage of the 2022 regular season with NFL Kickoff on Thursday, September 8, with the Buffalo Bills at the defending Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams from SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.
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