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CBS is making some significant changes to its NFL pregame coverage for the 2024 season. On Monday, CBS announced that Phil Simms and Boomer Esiason will not return to “The NFL Today” studio show next season. Fellow former star quarterback …
The Kansas City Chiefs and their fans weren’t the only winners at Super Bowl LVIII. CBS Sports got themselves a pretty favorable result as well. On Monday, CBS Sports’ PR account on X released the viewership numbers from the Chiefs’ …
CBS debuted a new scorebug for Super Bowl LVIII, and it garnered mixed reviews from fans. The new scorebug was fairly similar to the old one, but with a few cosmetic changes. The most notable difference was the font, which struck many as very basic. …
The CBS halftime show during the AFC Championship Game did not exactly go according to plan on Sunday. For a portion of the halftime show, the lighting on the CBS set at M&T Bank Stadium was not working. The crew did part of the show in the …
Ryan Tannehill had a Week 8 to forget, and he wasn’t even playing. The Tennessee Titans quarterback Tannehill missed Sunday’s game against the Atlanta Falcons due to an ankle injury. But somebody at CBS apparently missed that bit of info …
Matt Ryan was in the broadcast booth on Sunday getting war flashbacks. The ex-NFL MVP Ryan was having a perfectly enjoyable afternoon making his broadcasting debut for CBS during the Tampa Bay-Minnesota game. Unfortunately for Ryan though, the peace …
NFL fans are going to hear a lot more of Tiki Barber on television broadcasts during the 2023 season. Andrew Marchand of the New York Post reported on Monday that Barber will call a full slate of games for CBS this upcoming season. Barber, who was …
Clark Kellogg briefly turned Selection Sunday into Slip-Up Sunday. While helping to anchor CBS’ coverage of the 2023 March Madness bracket unveiling, the veteran analyst Kellogg had a pretty hilarious goof. Kellogg named the TCU Horned Frogs as …
Tony Romo has not quite been as popular among viewers recently as he was at the start of his time as a CBS Sports broadcaster. Apparently, the network is not only well aware of that, but even saw it coming. Andrew Marchand of the New York Post …
The CBS halftime show during the AFC Championship made a bit of a glaring mistake when previewing the remainder of the NFL playoff schedule on Sunday. Some viewers noticed that CBS’ graphic was very wrong when it came to the correct Super Bowl …
With the benefit of hindsight, CBS would probably want a do-over. During the third quarter of Sunday’s divisional playoff game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Buffalo Bills, CBS panned to a fan in the Buffalo crowd wearing a No. 32 Bills …
CBS seemingly had one of the best games of the week with the Dallas Cowboys facing the Minnesota Vikings in Sunday’s late window for Week 11. As it turned out, the game was so lopsided that the network had to pull a move that is utterly …
Former Villanova coach Jay Wright is taking on a new role after retiring as head coach. Wright is joining CBS to do broadcast work, according to Andrew Marchand of the New York Post. Wright will do commentary and studio work for the network during …
Anyone turning into CBS’ halftime show during the AFC Championship looking for coherent analysis of Sunday’s game between the Bengals and Chiefs came away sorely disappointed. As is often the case, CBS sent its studio crew to Kansas City …
The NFL ate well on Thanksgiving this year and not just at the table. CBS revealed Friday that the marquee Thanksgiving game between the Las Vegas Raiders and the Dallas Cowboys was the “most-watched NFL regular season game on any network since …
Sports fans are creatures of habit. They’re used to turning on TNT or ESPN for NBA games. They’re used to putting on CBS to watch a big SEC game. And they’re used to putting on FOX for an NFC football game. That’s why …
