Tag: NBC Sports

"I just wonder if you guys notice that the sport is disproportionately black, and the broadcasters that get hired are disproportionately white, and it's on purpose. I'm asking the question. It's to make it palatable to the broadest section of people."

"This was Michael Jordan. The face of the NBA’s greatest era. The man who helped make the original NBA on NBC a cultural phenomenon. The opportunity to put him back in that environment should have been impossible to screw up. And somehow, NBC did."

"Viewership peaked at 3.82 million during the broadcast."

"At some point, whether it’s Week 2 or whatever, I can get back into the radio booth and do my thing. Just being around the team and around you guys and watching it all is going to be certainly a healing process in itself for me."

"NBC Sports NOW is betting on personality-driven, fast-paced formats to fill its daytime streaming schedule."

"Noah Eagle, Todd Blackledge, and Kathryn Tappen return to Big Ten Saturday Night and will call all Saturday primetime games this season. Dan Hicks and Jason Garrett are also back in NBC’s Notre Dame Football booth."

"What does need to change is the amount of room networks give their talent to challenge their league partners when the conversation gets uncomfortable. That's a much more important discussion than whether a man should replace a woman in the analyst chair."

"We can’t wait to experience that in Dyersville with our players, our fans and baseball fans everywhere."

"Benetti became NBC's lead Sunday Night Baseball voice this year while remaining the Detroit Tigers' play-by-play announcer."

"NBC's Panthers-Cardinals broadcast drew 6.99 million viewers Thursday, the network's Hall of Fame Game audience since 2021."