By Josh Albarran - July 22, 2015
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| The FOX NFL Sunday team of Curt Menefee, Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, Jimmy Johnson and Michael Strahan, the No. 1 NFL pregame show was FOX Sports' first studio program back in 1994. (Fox Broadcasting Company, Inc.) |
In August 2013, America's then-new sports network FOX Sports 1 first hit the airwaves and a month later launched
FOX NFL Kickoff as an one-hour lead-in to the
FOX NFL Sunday pregame show over on the FOX Broadcast Network. Now as of Tuesday, FOX Sports announced that FOX NFL Kickoff will make its move from FS1 to FOX starting on Sunday, September, 13th at 11am ET. With that FOX's NFL studio coverage will be expanded to two hours compared to four hours each on both ESPN, NFL and CBS Sports Network (NBC which owns the Sunday night package does not had a Sunday morning NFL pregame show over on its cable channel NBCSN although was planned to aired it back in 2012, but never worked out).
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| Chris Wallace is the anchor of FOX's Sunday morning news program Fox News Sunday and Wallace (a Washington Redskins fan) had the NFL Sunday crew on the show twice during FOX's Super Bowl Sunday coverage. |
Meanwhile it does not effect the timing of FOX's other Sunday morning program
FOX News Sunday (which premiered in 1996 two years after
FOX NFL Sunday debuted as a pre-launched date of its producer Fox News Channel), which airs on the network every Sunday at 9:00am ET (or later in the hour or two on some FOX affiliates). For example in the New York market,
FOX News Sunday airs at 10:00am ET and during the NFL season it was followed by a half-hour or an hour of local programming leading up to
NFL Sunday or on a Sunday when a New York Giants plays a FOX game a half-hour pregame show would followed until
FOX NFL Sunday takes over.
According to an report from the SportsBusiness Journal, FOX affiliates including its owned-and-operated stations were asked to had an extra-hour of NFL programming in the morning hours with addition to
FOX NFL Sunday and
FOX NFL Kickoff as the clear-cup winner to providing more FOX attitude and lots of football talk for the next two hours on the FOX Network. As for
Fox News Sunday, will continue to air on the broadcast network on select times (most would air prior to FOX Sports' NFL coverage) along with re-airs on Fox News Channel at 2:00pm ET and 6:00pm ET.
