FOX Sports is preparing to broadcast Super Bowl LIX live from Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, La. and will have extensive coverage surrounding the championship broadcast. The company is embarking on the game with a new pairing in the broadcast booth featuring play-by-play announcer Kevin Burkhardt and analyst Tom Brady. While Burkhardt has called one Super Bowl previously, it will be Brady’s first time behind the microphone for the game that he won seven times throughout his illustrious career. Erin Andrews and Tom Rinaldi will report live from the field, while Mike Pereira will deliver rules analysis for the game in his sixth Super Bowl with FOX Sports and 18th overall.
The pregame show will offer five-and-a-half hours of live coverage emanating from the FOX Sports set on Bourbon Street beginning at 1 p.m. EST on Sunday, Feb. 9. This broadcast will combine both casts of FOX NFL Sunday and FOX NFL Kickoff for insights and analysis before kickoff. Curt Menefee will host FOX Super Bowl LIX Pregame, marking his seventh assignment in the role for the company, along with analysts Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, Michael Strahan, Jimmy Johnson and Rob Gronkowski. Insiders Jay Glazer and Peter Schrager will also take part in the program, along with Charissa Thompson, Charles Woodson, Julian Edelman and Michael Vick. Outside of the traditional pregame show casts, FOX NFL reporter Kristina Pink and host Cooper Manning will be on the air as well.
The game will also stream live in 4K on compatible devices through Tubi, marking the first instance the platform will present the championship matchup. A special Tubi Red Carpet at Super Bowl LIX show will take place live from the Caesars Superdome at 3:30 p.m. EST with host Olivia Culpo. FOX Sports will also present on-site digital coverage throughout the week, including articles from Henry McKenna and Greg Auman. Dave Helman will host the NFL on FOX Podcast, while Keyshawn Johnson will broadcast an episode of the All Facts No Brakes podcast from Ticklers Bar on Bourbon Street.
FOX Sports averaged 18.43 million viewers for its regular-season broadcasts of NFL football and registered five of the top 10 telecasts this season. In addition to having the most-watched game of the season on Thanksgiving Day (Giants-Cowboys, 38.8 million viewers), the America’s Game of the Week broadcast property averaged 23.9 million viewers. The company presented the NFC Championship Game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Commanders on Sunday, ratings for which have yet to be divulged.
The network averaged 115.1 million viewers for its last broadcast of the Super Bowl two years ago from State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., the first of two consecutive championships by the Kansas City Chiefs. As the team looks to become the first franchise in NFL history to win three straight Super Bowl championships, the company will seek to surpass the record-breaking average of 123.7 million viewers attained by Paramount Global (CBS Sports, Nickelodeon, Univision) last season.
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