(2016) - NBC Sunday Night Football Show Open - Carrie Underwood

NBC Sunday Night Football - Show Open 2016

The 2016 football season brings a new anthem to NBC's ratings-dominant Sunday Night Football. Carrie Underwood sings, dances prances and takes the viewer through a behind-the-scenes journey of the run-up to a football game with some of the best talent the NFL has to offer.

Editorial was executed in NYC throughout the entire month of July, blending Carrie's performance, football players, Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth, and Michele Tafoya into virtual environments. The impressive photo-real visual effects were handled deftly the masterful designers, creative directors, and compositors at Soho VFX.

Directors: Tripp Dixon (NBC) / Haley Geffen (Bodega) (http://bodegastudios.com/)
Production: Kris Walter - Bodega (http://www.kristopherwalter.com/)
Post Production: Soho VFX (https://sohovfx.com/)

NBC Sunday Night Football (abbreviated as SNF) is a weekly television broadcast of National Football League (NFL) games on NBC in the United States. It began airing on August 6, 2006 with the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, which opened that year's preseason. NBC took over the rights to the Sunday prime time game telecasts from ESPN, which carried the broadcasts from 1987 to 2005 (concurrently with NBC assuming the rights to Sunday evening regular-season games, ESPN took over the broadcast rights to Monday Night Football from sister network ABC beginning with the 2006 season). Previously, NBC had aired American Football League (AFL), and later American Football Conference (AFC), games from 1965 until 1998, when CBS took over those rights.

During the 2011–12 season, Sunday Night Football became the first sports program to hold the position as Nielsen's most-watched program on U.S. network television during the year, beating American Idol, which held that honor for eight consecutive seasons beginning in 2004; Sunday Night Football repeated this feat three years running, beginning with the 2013–14 season.

As of 2020, Al Michaels serves as the play-by-play announcer for the broadcasts, with Cris Collinsworth as the color commentator and Michele Tafoya as the sideline reporter. Upon NBC's assumption of the Sunday prime time game rights, Fred Gaudelli and Drew Esocoff, who serve as the respective lead producer and director, joined SNF in the same positions they held during the latter portion of the ABC era of Monday Night Football. John Madden, the color commentator for the first three years of the program, retired prior to the 2009 season; he was succeeded in that role by Collinsworth.

Since 2014, sister cable channel Universo has carried Spanish-language simulcasts of select games, after years of aborted attempts to simulcast the games on Telemundo; as with the NFL's other television partners, NBC provides Spanish-language audio feed of the game broadcasts via second audio program (SAP), formerly noted as being "provided by Telemundo” before the rebranding of that entity's sports division to Telemundo Deportes. With the former mun2's relaunch on February 1, 2015, Universo simulcast Super Bowl XLIX with NBC, with the channel carrying Spanish-language simulcasts of NFL games and NBC Sports properties (it began to carry the full season with the start of the 2020 season).

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