NFL Week #3, Full Schedule: Fox’ Burkhardt team has Packers vs. Bucs; Notes and comments

• Fox has this week’s NFL doubleheader. CBS runs a singleton.

• The lead broadcast teams are assigned: Fox’ Burkhardt and Olsen #1 team covers Green Bay-Tampa Bay in the late afternoon doubleheader. Unobtrusive Joe D, no relation to the Great Joe D has Baltimore at New England. CBS’ Nantz and Romo have Kansas City in Indianapolis.

• Amazon Prime kicked off its regular season last weekend with Al and new partner Herbie. Oh Herbie again. When I finally figured out how to download the programming purveyor, step-by-step, the garrulous one was talking up a storm. He did impress me at times during the telecast with incisive commentary. But the constant gab act reinforced how annoying he can be. Still, he’s prepared. Thursday they’ll have the backyard brawl, Cleveland and Pittsburgh.

• Matt Millen is on Fox’ NFL roster this weekend, New Orleans at Carolina. Once number two in the Fox booth, a couple decades ago he survived a precarious major heart procedure. A good man, but on-air he’s more emotional, stylish and bigger into intonations than he is substance. That’s what usually catches up with these stylists. Even with Madden – to some point.

• The Phantom of the Opera will end too in late winter. In our football memories, pioneer folks like Paul Christman, George Ratterman or Al DeRogatis were never overbearing. No shtick. I thought they shot from the hip. Fans sang their praises but the stylists started to take shots at their their mics.

• Joe Buck and Troy Aikman have basically sounded the same at ESPN.

• Fox covers only 99% of country and CBS, the legacy network, 100%

• From All Ears: Amazon is hoping sports broadcasting will increase Prime memberships, which cost $139 annually for free shipping on Amazon, unlimited streaming of Amazon Prime movies and television shows, and more. Amazon Prime has approximately 200 million subscribers globally, with 80 million active Prime Video viewers.

• With 182 stations cleared, the Bucs-Packers game aired by Fox is the biggest of the two networks running telecasts on Sunday afternoon. 

Thursday, September 22

CBS SINGLE

 

█ Kansas City @ Indianapolis Jim Nantz, Tony Romo (29%)

█ Cincinnati @ NY Jets Ian Eagle, Charles Davis (15%)

█ Buffalo @ Miami Kevin Harlan, Trent Green (20%)

█ Houston @ Chicago, Andrew Catalon, James Lofton (12%)

█Jacksonville @ LA Chargers (LATE), Greg Gumbel, Adam Archuleta (24%)

FOX EARLY

█ Baltimore @ New England, Joe Davis, Daryl Johnston (23%)

█ Philadelphia @ Washington, Adam Amin, Mark Schlereth (22%)

█ Las Vegas @ Tennessee, Kenny Albert, Jonathan Vilma (22%)

█ Detroit @ Minnesota, Brandon Gaudin, Brady Quinn (14%)

█ New Orleans @ Carolina, Dan Hellie, Matt Millen (18%)

FOX LATE

█ Green Bay @ Tampa Bay, Kevin Burkhardt, Greg Olsen (83%)

█ LA Rams @ Arizona, Kevin Kugler, Mark Sanchez (8%)

█ Atlanta @ Seattle, Chris Myers, Robert Smith (8%)

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