For the first time in the NFL’s 101-year history, every Sunday night game will be broadcast in Spanish across the United States.
Telemundo Deportes will broadcast NBC Sports Group’s Sunday Night 2020-21 football package: the start of the 2020 NFL among the protective champions of super bowl Kansas City Chiefs opposed to the Houston Texans on September 10, the Baltimore Ravens opposed to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thanksgiving and 3 playoff games. – in the sister network Universe.
Additional NFL content will be released on Telemundo Deportes platforms, adding highlights, features and special offers. Commentators Edgar Lopez and René Giraldo will be on the field, while Emmy winner Miguel Gurwitz, Jorge Andrés and former Arizona Cardinals offensive lineman Rolando Canto will make the studio’s canopy cover before and after the game.
“It’s a very important thing,” said Ray Warren, president of Telemundo Deportes. “We have never played football on Sunday nights; we did football on Thursday nights, and now we are looking to fully accelerate again and that is a component of the brand’s intention that we are building as the largest and most productive Spanish sports programming in the world.
“The NFL shield is the largest sports logo in the world; they do things in Mexico and do things in Europe. We love the concept of joining them in this quest.
ESPN began broadcasting NFL games on Sunday nights in 1987; Previously, some Sunday night contests had been broadcast on ABC under the network’s Monday Night Football flag since 1978. ESPN Sunday Night Football aired from 1987 to 2006 when NBC took over the rights.
Last year, NBC’s Sunday Night Football was the most watched star-time series for the ninth year in a row, with an average of 20. 5 million ratings in 2019, 5% more than in 2018, according to Nielsen.
This will be the eighth season that Telemundo Deportes (or Universe) will broadcast NFL games, the network broadcast some games from the 2010-11 season to the 2012–13 season, and between the 2014–15 season and the 2017–18 season.
Telemundo’s first Sunday night football exhibition aired between the New York Jets and the Miami Dolphins on September 26, 2010, although it was limited to markets in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and Dallas. Universo broadcast seven NFL games, adding Super Bowl LII, the 2017–18 season.
The NFL announced in March 2020 that the last of its six wild cards to be played over two days this season will be televised via NBC on Sunday night, and this broadcast will be extended to broadcast service Telemundo and NBC Peacock.
“It’s also a wonderful initiative for the NFL,” Warren said. “We think there are plenty of opportunities. We think it’s very complementary (to our football exhibitions). I don’t think other people are going to show up in the NFL; I think we’re going to bring them into the tent through the wonder of sport, marketing and link them to the NBC machine. “
The NFL focuses on its expansion and influence abroad, i. e. through its foreign series with games in the UK and Mexico. Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, no games will be played abroad during the 2020-2021 season.
While the NFL is locked at home for the time being, a foreigner will still get benefits from its broadcasts, especially in Spanish. There are an estimated 59. 8 million Hispanics in the United States, or only about 20% of the country’s population. 41 million US citizens speak Spanish at home.
The NFL has grown among its Spanish-speaking audience. On average, another 757,000 people watched the Super Bowl LIV in Spanish on fox’s linear channel Deportes (including connected television decides), making it the most-watched Super Bowl in Spanish. history of television; 16 per cent over 654,000 in 2017.
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