Al Michaels Could be Heading to Amazon for Thursday Night Football
According to Andrew Marchand of the New York Post it is looking more and more likely that legendary announcer Al Michaels will be calling Amazon home for the foreseeable future….
SAN DIEGO, CA – DECEMBER 07: TV personality Al Michaels stands on the field before a game between the New England Patriots and the San Diego Chargers at Qualcomm Stadium on December 7, 2014 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Todd Warshaw/Getty Images)
According to Andrew Marchand of the New York Post it is looking more and more likely that legendary announcer Al Michaels will be calling Amazon home for the foreseeable future.
Michaels who has broadcast games on NBC's Sunday Night Football since 2006, would join the streaming platform as it tries to launch into streaming live NFL games by itself without sharing the platform with any of the major networks.
According to Marchand, Amazon is ready to lock up Michaels for three years at $10 million per year to cover all 16 games that begin in Week 2 of the regular season. Michaels would team up with Kirk Herbstreit for the first time ever. Herbstreit, who will remain at ESPN to call college football games is getting paid $33 million to add NFL Thursday nights to his schedule.
The teaming of Michaels and Herbstriet is just one of the many broadcast dominoes that are falling right now. Joe Buck and Troy Aikman left Fox Sports for lucrative deals at ESPN to take over Monday Night Football.
Steve Levy remains at ESPN as its main Hockey play-by-play announcer.
Meanwhile there is speculation that Buck will be replaced by Kevin Burkhardt in the football booth and Joe Davis in the World Series booth at Fox. Although nothing is official.
