Recent Posts tagged with Sunday Night Football
By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Monday, September 21, 2020 - 4:41 pm
When it comes to live sports productions, it simply doesn’t get any bigger than NBC’s Sunday Night Football. In 15 years together, NBC’s SNF production and operations teams have seen just about everything. However, with no preseason games on which to prepare for the SNF slate this year, the crew found itself in Kansas City […]
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By SVG Staff | Friday, May 22, 2020 - 7:05 am
With the 2019-20 TV season wrapping up tonight, NBC’s Sunday Night Football finishes as primetime’s #1 TV show in all key metrics for the ninth consecutive year – adding to its record for the most consecutive years atop the charts (since 1950), based on official live plus same day data provided by Nielsen. Sunday Night Football also ranked as […]
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By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 3:48 pm
The NFL makes it an even century tonight, kicking off its 100th season from Soldier Field. And NBC Sports Group kicks off its 14th season of Sunday Night Football with the Packers-Bears matchup on the NFL Kickoff Game tonight, rolling a massive show that features the debut of Canon’s new CJ15ex4.3B 4K broadcast lens on […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 12:57 pm
Audio for football games has reached a pinnacle, at least technically. The ability to pull in sound from the gridiron — from microphones on players to parabolic receptors with sensitivity a CIA spook would respect — is just short of reality-show pervasiveness. The only brakes on collecting sound during games are legal ones, a combination […]
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By SVG Staff | Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 12:18 pm
As the home of Sunday Night Football, NBC Sports is launching a weekly NFL free-to-play game, Sunday Night 7. Fans can participate for the first time leading up to this week’s Sunday Night Football opener (Steelers at Patriots, 8:20 p.m. ET on NBC) as the competition begins for $2 million in guaranteed cash prizes over […]
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By SVG Staff | Tuesday, June 25, 2019 - 12:02 pm
The new NBC Sunday Night Football show open – for the first time in the series’ 14 seasons – will be filmed inside an NFL stadium, with Mercedes-Benz Stadium, home of the Atlanta Falcons, serving as the “stage.”
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By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Friday, January 11, 2019 - 12:30 pm
It has been nearly a year since the NBC aired Super Bowl LII, but the Peacock is in a Super Bowl state of mind this weekend in Kansas City. On Saturday, it will roll out a special 90-minute pregame edition of Football Night in America from two sets at Arrowhead Stadium in advance of the Chiefs-Colts AFC […]
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By Kristian Hernandez, Associate Editor | Thursday, January 3, 2019 - 10:06 am
Ratings roundup is a rundown of rating news from the past week and is derived from press releases and reports around the industry. In this week’s edition, the College Football Playoff semifinals capped off ESPN’s activity in 2018, the 2018 NHL Winter Classic drove home the best rating for the event in four years, the […]
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By SVG Staff | Wednesday, December 19, 2018 - 8:30 am
NBC Sports – the home to many of sports media’s first-ever game presentations on radio, television, and live streaming – launched “NBC Sports History,” a multimedia digital timeline highlighting the most iconic and influential sports moments in the network’s nearly century-long history.
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By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Thursday, October 25, 2018 - 7:37 pm
NBC Sports continues to add virtual graphics to its Sunday Night Football telecasts with the debut of SNF Kicks field-goal “tracer”on this Sunday’s New Orleans Saints–Minnesota Vikings matchup. The new SNF Kicks Tracer, an element of SNF Kicks, can map the flight of the football on all field-goal attempts. The SNF Kicks system, which uses TrackMan technology, will provide […]
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