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NBC announced its new “Sunday Night Football” broadcast crew on Tuesday, officially revealing the replacements for play-by-play man Al Michaels and sideline reporter Michele Tafoya. Mike Tirico, NBC’s longtime sports broadcaster, will now be joining Cris Collinsworth in the booth for play-by-play, and Melissa Stark will be doing the sideline reporting. “’Sunday Night Football’ is destination viewing and we are thrilled to have Mike, Cris and Melissa call the action and tell the stories that… Source link

Gonzaga, Arizona favored by NBC Sports Chicago ‘experts’ originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago If there’s a sporting event that transcends its own game and league, it’s got to be March Madness, especially the first two days of the men’s NCAA tournament, when even MLB spring training keeps one eye on the basketball being played nonstop on every TV in clubhouses across Arizona and Florida. It’s in that spirit that we interrupt your already previously interrupted 2022 baseball spring… Source link

Just days after she tearfully left her lucrative and high-profile job as sideline reporter for Sunday Night Football, Michele Tafoya appeared on right-wing media networks to show her true colors. There’s a feeling of repugnance, seeing Tafoya’s recent comments contrasted with the fact that for years she was smiling in the faces of Black coaches and players to mine them for nuggets of information to make sure she looked good in her job, but we’ll set that aside for now. There’s also a familiar… Source link

Is Sunday’s Super Bowl the final time we’ll see Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth in a broadcast booth together? It sure sounds like it from Michaels’ pregame introduction. The veteran play-by-play man introduced his longtime broadcast partner for “one final time” to start NBC’s coverage of the Super Bowl on Sunday, adding fuel to the speculation that he’ll leave the network this offseason. “The Bengals … get to the Super Bowl for the first time since 1988 when this man — come sliding in… Source link

Michele Tafoya’s time on the sidelines is coming to an end. The longtime “Sunday Night Football” sideline reporter is stepping away from NBC following the Super Bowl next month, the network announced on Tuesday. “My time with NBC Sports has been the most satisfying of my career,” Tafoya said in a statement. “I’ve had the good fortune of collaborating with a team that is amongst the best at what they do, and the support I’ve received in this position has been unparalleled …… Source link

The past few weeks haven’t exactly been a golden age for the Golden Globes. The annual event honoring film and television has been embroiled in near-constant controversy following a February investigation by the Los Angeles Timesthat discovered the group behind the Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, did not have a single Black member among its ranks, among other troubling revelations. By mid-March, Hollywood’s leading publicists joined with representatives from Time’s Up and… Source link

Need a new wall? What if it was as quick as blowing up a balloon? How about some privacy? What about a booth? If the office needs a new kitchen, that can be done in minutes too. It’s all part of what may be the office of the future — part pandemic-inspired, part Google trying stuff out. Michelle Kaufman, director of what Google calls “built environment,” gave NBC Bay Area an exclusive tour of several warehouses full of experiments aimed at figuring out the future of the… Source link

The WNBA signed a multi-year deal with Google on Monday to be the presenting partner for the league’s playoffs, part of the technology giant’s efforts to help champion women’s sports. Twenty-five WNBA games will be televised on ABC and ESPN in celebration of the league’s 25th season, with Google as the presenting sponsor. The league will also have 40 games on CBS and CBS Sports Network. The WNBA will also have 12 games streamed on Twitter and 20 on Facebook. Google is the… Source link

While neither the WWE nor Peacock are willing to disclose how many new subscribers signed on to the OTT platform in the run-up to WrestleMania 37, Nick Khan on Thursday seemed happy to spill the beans about at least one other aspect of Comcast’s sports-media business. Speaking to analysts during the WWE’s first-quarter earnings call, the president and chief revenue officer of the House that McMahon Built suggested that NBC and the NHL are poised to go their separate ways. In a response to… Source link

Benjamin Cruz, a former instructional designer in Google’s Cloud division, was caught off guard when a colleague told them that their skin was much darker than she expected. Cruz, who is Mexican American and prefers to be identified by the pronouns they/them, reported the incident to human resources in 2019 where personnel told them they should “assume good intent,” Cruz recalled in an interview. Unsatisfied, Cruz asked human resources to look deeper into the incident,… Source link