02-06-2006, 07:10 PM
Here are this year's changes of note.
With ESPN giving up Sunday night football and picking up the Monday night game, Mike Patrick and Paul Maguire are out, and Joe Theismann will work with Mike Tirico and Tony Kornheiser. (The Al Michaels exit from the contract he signed last year with ESPN isn't official, but it's now common knowledge that ESPN is letting Al pull a T.O.)
Also for the ESPN broadcast, Suzy Kolber stays on kissing-booth duty, and Michelle Tafoya takes the other side of the field.
On Sunday nights at NBC, Al Michaels and John Madden will reprise their Monday night roles, joined by Andrea Kremer, formerly of ESPN, who'll work the sidelines
At FOX, James Brown is leaving the pregame show to host the competition's effort at CBS. Likely replacing Brown at FOX will be Terry Bradshaw, who'll slide over one spot behind the desk. This opens up a seat at the FOX grown-up's table -- and we'll cast the first ballot now for anyone but Tony Siragusa to roll up a chair.
Brown's arrival at CBS bounces Greg Gumbel and the pet rat that sleeps on top of his head to the No. 2 broadcast team, with once-upon-a-time Monday night booth guy Dan Dierdorf. The move displaces Dick Enberg, who wasn't happy about it. Not one bit.
"I was shocked when I got the call," Enberg told The New York Times. "I still regard myself as being very strong on football, and I think we had a great season. I can't accept that my work is any less than it was in the past. I feel I story-tell as well as anyone. I won't take this as a defeat." (Yeah, but the rest of the world will.)
Elsewhere, it's been confirmed that Bonnie Bernstein is done as a sideline reporter at CBS. We'd heard that she wanted out. The Los Angeles Times says that her contract wasn't renewed, which implies that it was a network decision. Either way, we've got a feeling that Bernstein has pommel horsed the shark, and that she'll never been seen or heard from again in a national format. (Unless, of course, one of those news magazine shows does an item on her efforts to fleece up-and-coming broadcasters out of $1,250 for a phone consultation on how to get a job like the one she doesn't have anymore.)
Finally, CBS sideline reporter Armen Keteyian is graduating to CBS News. (Or is it a demotion?)
There still could be more adjustments, since the NFL Network still needs to put together a crew for the eight games that will be broadcast on the league-owned channel, beginning in November.
With ESPN giving up Sunday night football and picking up the Monday night game, Mike Patrick and Paul Maguire are out, and Joe Theismann will work with Mike Tirico and Tony Kornheiser. (The Al Michaels exit from the contract he signed last year with ESPN isn't official, but it's now common knowledge that ESPN is letting Al pull a T.O.)
Also for the ESPN broadcast, Suzy Kolber stays on kissing-booth duty, and Michelle Tafoya takes the other side of the field.
On Sunday nights at NBC, Al Michaels and John Madden will reprise their Monday night roles, joined by Andrea Kremer, formerly of ESPN, who'll work the sidelines
At FOX, James Brown is leaving the pregame show to host the competition's effort at CBS. Likely replacing Brown at FOX will be Terry Bradshaw, who'll slide over one spot behind the desk. This opens up a seat at the FOX grown-up's table -- and we'll cast the first ballot now for anyone but Tony Siragusa to roll up a chair.
Brown's arrival at CBS bounces Greg Gumbel and the pet rat that sleeps on top of his head to the No. 2 broadcast team, with once-upon-a-time Monday night booth guy Dan Dierdorf. The move displaces Dick Enberg, who wasn't happy about it. Not one bit.
"I was shocked when I got the call," Enberg told The New York Times. "I still regard myself as being very strong on football, and I think we had a great season. I can't accept that my work is any less than it was in the past. I feel I story-tell as well as anyone. I won't take this as a defeat." (Yeah, but the rest of the world will.)
Elsewhere, it's been confirmed that Bonnie Bernstein is done as a sideline reporter at CBS. We'd heard that she wanted out. The Los Angeles Times says that her contract wasn't renewed, which implies that it was a network decision. Either way, we've got a feeling that Bernstein has pommel horsed the shark, and that she'll never been seen or heard from again in a national format. (Unless, of course, one of those news magazine shows does an item on her efforts to fleece up-and-coming broadcasters out of $1,250 for a phone consultation on how to get a job like the one she doesn't have anymore.)
Finally, CBS sideline reporter Armen Keteyian is graduating to CBS News. (Or is it a demotion?)
There still could be more adjustments, since the NFL Network still needs to put together a crew for the eight games that will be broadcast on the league-owned channel, beginning in November.
