Helping NBC Run Up the Score on Football Rivals

摘要

For the pastthree years, the most-watched show in primetime has been NBC's Sunday Night Football, which is coming off another strong season averaging over 21 million viewers in 2014, setting it up to remain No. 1 yet again. While much of that credit goes to the insatiable appetite for football, many media watchers cite NBC's stellar game coverage, a quality that can be timed back to the day ten years ago, when former NBC Sports head Dick Ebersol poached producer Fred Gaudelli from ESPN. "There is nobody like him in television and likely never will be again," says SNF booth analyst Chris Collinsworth.