Fox Sports Breaks Down Superbowl LIX Coverage From New Orleans 'By the Numbers'
NEW ORLEANS – Ahead of the network’s 11th broadcast of “The Big Game” on Sunday, Feb. 9 (6:30 PM ET, FOX), FOX Sports kicks off Super Bowl LIX week from “The Big Easy” with a by-the-numbers overview spotlighting coverage, broadcasters, production, technology and more.
Dedicated Super Bowl LIX programming on FOX, FS1 and FOX Deportes and a star-studded cast of FOX NFL on-air personalities and broadcasters are set to bring the FOX Sports fun all week long before the highly anticipated showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles.
FOX Sports - Super Bowl LIX - By the Numbers
- 1st Super Bowl in the broadcast booth for FOX NFL lead analyst and seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady
- 1st time FOX Sports rolls out its special takeover of Tubi for “The Big Game” – inclusive of streaming FOX’s telecast of the Super Bowl on the platform live in 4K
- 2nd Super Bowl called on FOX in the past three years by lead play-by-play announcer Kevin Burkhardt and sideline reporter Tom Rinaldi
- 2 SkyCams delivering sweeping views of all the action on the field, including a Super Slowmo / 4K SkyCam for the first time
- 4 Set locations throughout New Orleans, including on the iconic Bourbon Street, inside and outside the Superdome and the Tubi Red Carpet
- 5th Super Bowl Erin Andrews reports on from the sidelines for FOX
- 5thTime FOX Deportes presents a Spanish-language telecast of the Super Bowl
- 5 ½ Hours of live pregame coverage on FOX beginning at 1:00 PM ET on Super Bowl Sunday
- 9 Hours of live Spanish-language pregame coverage on gameday powered by FOX Deportes
- 11th Super Bowl broadcast on FOX – the most of any network in the last 30 years
- 16 Mobile units deployed around the Superdome
- 18 Pylon cameras providing pin-point perspectives from the endzones
- 18 Super Bowls (6th with FOX) worked by rules analyst Mike Pereira
- 31 Total Super Bowls covered between FOX NFL lead game director Rich Russo and FOX NFL lead producer Richie Zyontz (6th for Russo as lead director, 8th for Zyontz as lead producer)
- 34 Super Bowl rings won between FOX NFL game and studio analysts
- 48 Microphones capturing game and player sound
- 53 Miles of fiber and cable installed around “The Big Easy”
- 67 Hours of week-long comprehensive Super Bowl LIX programming across FOX, FS1 and FOX Deportes
- 149 Cameras covering the game and pregame (27 super slow-motion cameras, 24 robotic cameras, 23 high resolution cameras, 14 cameras on the Tubi Red Carpet, 12 wireless cameras, 10 Cosm panamorphic cameras, 7 augmented reality cameras)
- 2,783 Po’ boys served at lunch to the FOX Sports crew on Super Bowl Sunday
- 6,808 Fiber connections added to Superdome
About FOX Sports
FOX Sports is the umbrella entity representing Fox Corporation’s wide array of multi-platform US-based sports assets. Built with brands capable of reaching more than 100 million viewers in a single weekend, the business has ownership and interests in linear television networks, digital and mobile programming, broadband platforms, multiple web sites, joint-venture businesses and several licensing relationships. FOX Sports includes the sports television arm of the FOX Network; FS1, FS2, FOX Soccer Plus and FOX Deportes. FOX Sports’ digital properties include FOXSports.com and the FOX Sports App, which provides live streaming video of FOX Sports content, instant scores, stats and alerts to iOS and Android devices. Also included in FOX Sports’ portfolio are FOX’s interests in joint-venture businesses Big Ten Network and the UFL and a licensing agreement that established the FOX Sports Radio Network.
Contact:
Eric Esteban, FOX Sports
Eric.Esteban@FOX.com
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