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''NBC Sunday Night Football'' is a weekly Television broadcast of Sunday evening National Football League games on NBC that began airing on Sunday, August 6 , 2006 with the pre-season opening Hall Of Fame Game . Al Michaels serves as the Play-by-play announcer, with John Madden as the Color Commentator , and Andrea Kremer serving as the sole sideline reporter. Fred Gaudelli and Drew Esocoff, the lead producer and director respectively, carry over their duties from ABC's telecasts of '' Monday Night Football ''. In addition to broadcasting Sunday night primetime games, NBC's NFL package has also aired the Annual Kickoff Game on Thursday night in 2006 and 2007, as well as special Monday editions (2006's Christmas Day Eagles-Cowboys game). ESPN , which aired Sunday games from the 1987 through 2005 NFL seasons, took over '' Monday Night Football '' from sister network ABC, which aired a doubleheader broadcast on September 11 , 2006 . STUDIO SHOW The studio show '' Football Night In America '', featuring Bob Costas , Cris Collinsworth , Sterling Sharpe , Jerome Bettis , and Peter King precedes the broadcast each week, featuring a recap of the other Sunday NFL contests. Starting with the 2007 NFL Season , MSNBC talk-show host Keith Olbermann will co-host with Costas, while NBC News '' Today '' reporter Tiki Barber will contribute to ''Sunday Night Football'' presumably from the ''Football Night in America'' studio. Kremer, Madden, and Michaels also contribute to the studio show from the game site. ADDITIONAL GAMES NBC's contract also includes the opening Thursday-night NFL Kickoff Game and two opening games of the Wild Card Round of the playoffs. The network will also air two Super Bowl games during the six years of the deal, following the 2008 ( Super Bowl XLIII ) and 2011 (Super Bowl XLVI) seasons, and two Pro Bowl games the week following their Super Bowl telecasts as part of a new contractual policy where the network with the Super Bowl will air the Pro Bowl. In addition, NBC becomes the home of the aforementioned annual Pro Football Hall Of Fame Game , which begins the NFL's preseason. However, the 2007 game aired on NFL Network because the NFL had planned to stage the China Bowl just a few days later, to be televised by NBC as a tie-in to its coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics in that country. The China Bowl has since been postponed until 2009 . The HOF game is expected to return to NBC in the 2008 preseason. SCHEDULING The first regular-season game to be shown by NBC under this contract, Miami at Pittsburgh , aired September 7 , 2006 , followed by the first Sunday-night game— Indianapolis at the New York Giants —on September 10 , 2006 . The actual first game of the run—the 2006 Pro Football Hall Of Fame Game between Oakland and Philadelphia —was televised on August 6 , 2006 . ''NBC Sunday Night Football'' is the beneficiary of The League's New Flexible-scheduling System . For the final seven weeks of the season (seven of the final eight weeks during the 2006 season because of Christmas weekend), the NFL has the flexibility in selecting games to air on Sunday night, stating that fans will be able to vote for what game they would like to see on the Sunday primetime slot. During those affected weeks, no game is initially scheduled for NBC—instead, the schedule slot for the NBC game is listed as " To Be Announced ", and one Sunday afternoon game will be moved to the primetime slot. The NFL did earmark specific games for ''Sunday Night Football'' in Weeks 10-15 and 17 when the official schedule came out in April 2006.1 CBS and FOX could each protect four of its games during Weeks 10-15 and also each protect one of its games for Week 17; however, these two networks had to decide which games to protect in early October 2006, after Week 4 of the NFL season. In the 2006 season, there was no game played on the first Sunday night which overlapped with the World Series ( October 22 in the 2006 Season ), along with Christmas Eve night where NBC broadcast that week's game on Christmas afternoon instead. However, the broadcast of ''Football Night in America'' continued at its regular time on both occasions each Sunday, with a half-hour version of the program airing before the Christmas game and the two "Wild Card Saturday" games. In 2007, there will be no broadcast on NBC for Sunday, October 28 due to game 5 of the 2007 World Series , which will be broadcast on FOX . Also, a tentative full-season schedule has been unveiled, including games in the last seven weeks of the season. Those games could be replaced under flexible scheduling if the need arises. The same rules under which CBS and FOX protect games for their own packages still apply. 2007 schedule SIMILARITY TO ABC Eighty percent of NBC's ''Sunday Night Football'' crew comes from ABC/ESPN, including Fred Gaudelli and Drew Esocoff (producer and director, respectively), as ESPN moved most of its ''Sunday Night'' production crew to '' Monday Night Football ''. Michaels, Madden and Kremer also come to NBC directly from ABC/ESPN, and '' Football Night In America's '' Sterling Sharpe was a member of ESPN's '' Sunday NFL Countdown '' in recent years (calling several Sunday Night Games for the network in 2005 ).2 NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol on using ABC/ESPN talent: Also, NBC has the starters introduce themselves, much as ABC did in the last few years of its run, and the short postgame show (so affiliates can get to their late newscasts) follows a similar format to ABC's. THEME MUSIC song "I Hate Myself For Loving You" retitled "Waiting All Day For Sunday Night".34 Several alternative versions were used throughout the season, substituting different lyrics when appropriate, e.g. "Waiting All Year For Opening Night." On the selection of Pink, ''NFL on NBC'' producer Fred Gaudelli had this to say: Starting in the 2007 Season , country singer Faith Hill has replaced Pink as the singer of the opening theme.5 SHOW OPENING The song is at the centerpiece of the opening montage, which has also changed in 2007. For the first season, Pink appeared to sing from the top of a Skyscraper as a Helicopter zoomed down on a city Skyline and the field, the results of Computer-generated Imagery . A television monitor, which resembles NBC's monitor at Times Square , showed game preview footage and opening credits. In 2007, Hill sings on a stage while some of the key players in the game and announcers Michaels and Madden arrive in Limousine s and walk on a Red Carpet . Also, some of the lyrics have been changed slightly and the musical arrangement tilts toward Country more than Rock , to reflect the change in singers. In both cases, Williams' music then plays in the background over the official welcome. GRAPHICS NBC's ''Sunday Night Football'' graphics, logos and scoreboard were designed by Troika Design Group, along with the city skyline graphics used in the introductions to both '', though it has been slightly modified for golf coverage due to readability concerns. USA Network , a "sister" cable network, also uses the graphics to cover the U.S. Open Tennis tournament. REFERENCES SEE ALSO
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