Sunday Night Football to Continue on NBC
Through 2033 NFL Season; NBC Sports’ Upcoming 2021 NFL Season
Coverage on NBC and Peacock
NBC Sports to Present 4 of Next 13 Super
Bowls, Plus Wild Card and Divisional Playoff Games Each Season on
NBC and Peacock
NBC Remains Home of NFL Kickoff Game &
Thanksgiving Night Game; Flexible Scheduling for SNF Begins in Week
5 Each Season
NBCUniversal and the NFL announced today an 11-year extension
and expansion for NBC Sports to continue as the home of Sunday
Night Football, primetime television’s No. 1 show for an
unprecedented 10 consecutive years.
With the new agreement, which begins with the 2023 NFL season,
NBC and Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming service, will present
Sunday Night Football through 2033 – a span of 28 seasons for NBC
as the home of the NFL’s premier primetime package (since its 2006
debut). In addition, beginning with the upcoming 2021 season,
Peacock will stream all NBC Sunday Night Football games and the
Football Night in America studio show. Peacock will also produce a
new exclusive, expanded postgame show following SNF each week.
NBC Sports, which produced the first-ever NFL broadcast on Oct.
22, 1939 (Philadelphia Eagles-Brooklyn Dodgers from Ebbets Field),
will present four of the next 13 Super
Bowls, including three Super Bowls as part of the new
agreement. Home of the upcoming Super Bowl LVI from SoFi Stadium in
Los Angeles in February 2022, NBC and Peacock will broadcast and
stream Super Bowls in February 2026, February 2030, and February
2034. NBC Sports’ presentation of Super Bowl XLIX in February 2015
is the most-watched show in U.S. television history (114.4 million
viewers on NBC).
In each of the next 13 seasons, NBC will broadcast a Divisional
Playoff game. In addition, NBC will televise two Wild Card playoff
games during the 2021, 2022, 2023, 2026, and 2031 seasons, with a
single Wild Card telecast in all other seasons. In each of the next
seven seasons, NBC will broadcast a Sunday primetime Wild Card
game. All NBC NFL postseason games will stream live on Peacock.
Peacock will also serve as the exclusive
national home of six NFL regular-season games – one each
year from 2023-28 (giving NBC Sports an additional regular-season
game in those seasons) – and will launch a virtual NFL channel,
highlighting classic games, as well as NFL Films’ series, library,
and archival content, which will all also be available on demand.
NBC Sports will have the option to incorporate enhanced and
interactive features in game presentations to be streamed live on
NBC digital platforms, including Peacock.
“We are excited to expand upon our relationship with the NFL,
which is the most powerful content in sports and entertainment,”
said Pete Bevacqua, Chairman, NBC Sports Group. “Sunday
Night Football has been television’s most-watched primetime show
for a decade, and we look forward to continuing our best-in-class
presentation of SNF, Super Bowls, and playoff games for many years
to come, while also broadening our audience with Peacock becoming
the live streaming home for all NBC NFL games.”
“Comcast and the NBC family have been outstanding partners for
us and we are excited to continue that relationship long into the
future,” said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. “Sunday Night
Football is firmly established as the No. 1 show in primetime
television, and we are looking forward to working with NBC and
Peacock to continue to bring the NFL to more fans in more ways than
ever before.”
NBC Sports will continue its tradition of opening each season
with the NFL Kickoff Game, as the first regular-season game in the
Sunday Night Football package, which also includes the Thanksgiving
night primetime game. The NFL’s flexible scheduling for SNF, which
was instituted in 2006, will begin in Week 5 each season.
Each NFL Sunday on NBC will once again begin with Football Night
in America, the most-watched studio show in sports in every year
since its 2006 debut.
Telemundo Deportes, the U.S. destination for the biggest global
sporting events in Spanish-language, will present all NBC NFL games on television in Spanish beginning in
2023, also available to be live streamed on Peacock.
This long-term agreement can be terminated on a one-time basis
by the NFL after seven years.
In January, NBC concluded its 15th season of Sunday Night
Football, topping all primetime television series in the fall and
once again pacing to finish as primetime’s #1
TV show in all key metrics for an unprecedented 10th consecutive
year. NBC’s SNF extended its record for the most
consecutive years atop the charts (since 1950), based on official
live plus same day data provided by Nielsen.
Most Consecutive Years, #1 Ranked Show in
Primetime, Since 1950 10 years in a row – Sunday Night
Football (2011-12 through 2020-21; on pace) 6 years in a row –
American Idol (2005-06 through 2010-11) 5 years in a row –
The Cosby Show (1985-86 through 1989-90)…tied Cheers in ‘89-90 5
years in a row – All in the Family (1971-72 through 1975-76)
4 years in a row – Gunsmoke (1957-58 through 1960-61)
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with over 56 million customer relationships across the United
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