Behind the Mic: Erin Andrews Replaces Pam Oliver as Fox’s NFL A-Game Sideline Reporter
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Earlier this week, SI.com broke the news that Fox will replace long-time NFL A-game sideline reporter Pam Oliver with Erin Andrew for the upcoming football season. Andrews joins Joe Buck and Troy Aikman as Fox’s top broadcasting team and will step away from her role as host of Fox Sports 1’s college football pregame show.
Oliver, meanwhile will move to the No. 2 team working with play-by-play announcer Kevin Burkhardt and analyst John Lynch for her 20th season at Fox. In addition, she has been elevated to “senior correspondent. In this new position, she “expands her influence beyond the NFL to include the wide breadth of sports and events covered by FOX Sports year-round, with her exclusive interviews, commentary and essays featured on a variety of FOX Sports programs and platforms, including FOX NFL SUNDAY, FOX SPORTS LIVE, AMERICA’S PREGAME, FOX SPORTS 1 ON 1, college football and basketball and FOXSports.com.”…
…The SEC Network has finalized its 2014 football commentating line-up and added several names in the process. Heisman winning quarterback Andre Ware and former Georgia lineman Matt Stinchcomb have both signed multi-year agreements to join the network as college football analysts when it launches August 14, 2014. Tony Barnhart, Tom Hart, Kaylee Hartung and Dave Neal have also been added to the roster. Ware and Stinchcomb join Jesse Palmer, Greg McElroy, Booger McFarland, Marcus Spears and Tim Tebow to complete an analyst pool that boasts…
…Holly Sonders has joined FOX Sports to serve its family of channels as a golf reporter and host of the network’s coverage of the USGA championships beginning in 2015. Sonders will also serve as a sideline reporter during NFL coverage. She joins host Joe Buck and analyst Greg Norman as members of the FOX Sports Golf team. Sonders joins FOX Sports from the Golf Channel/NBC, where she co-hosted Morning Drive, a daily golf talk show and School of Golf. Sonders also hosted Playing Lessons, another instructional program that offers exclusive insight into the lives and skills of the world’s top pros…
…Veteran host James Duthie will join CFL ON TSN for a slate of marquee events, including the playoffs and the 102nd GREY CUP. Duthie will continue to lead TSN’s extensive hockey coverage, which includes 130+ NHL games featuring the Toronto Maple Leafs, Ottawa Senators, and Winnipeg Jets as well as the IIHF World Junior Championship. Duthie, an Ottawa native who hosted TSN’s CFL studio coverage from 1998-2000, makes his CFL ON TSN return this Friday, July 18 during the Ottawa Redblacks’ home opener against the Toronto Argonauts at the brand new TD Place. Live coverage begins at 7 p.m. ET on TSN and TSN GO…
…NESN has announced that Leah Hextall will be leaving the RSN at the end of August in order to move back to her native Canada for a soon to be announced opportunity with a Canadian broadcasting partner of NESN…
…NBC Sports Group’s lead Premier League play-by-play announcer Arlo White joins the full U.S.-based Premier League announce team – Rebecca Lowe, Robbie Earle, Kyle Martino and Robbie Mustoe – on NBCSN’s primetime telecast of the Wednesday, July 23 “Football at Fenway” friendly between Liverpool and AS Roma. White will call the match and will be joined by Martino, who will offer analysis from “between the benches.” Lowe, Earle and Mustoe will be live on the field at Fenway Park for pre-game, halftime and post-game shows…
