FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, January 25th, 2018

SUPER BOWL LII ON NBC “BY THE NUMBERS”

More Than 500 Employees, 106 Cameras, 50 Miles of Cable and 14 Mobile Units

Al Michaels to Call His 10th Super Bowl 

Stamford, Conn. – January 25, 2018 – NBC Sports’ coverage of Super Bowl LII begins Sunday, February 4, at Noon ET from U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minn. To produce this year’s game, NBC Sports will use a crew of more than 500 employees, 106 cameras, 50 miles of cable, 14 mobile units, and a massive collection of additional tools and resources.

In addition to live coverage of the game, NBC Sports will deliver six hours of pre-game coverage, and more than 10 NBCSN and NBCUniversal shows will report from Minneapolis during Super Bowl week. NBC Sports Group alone will present 200-plus hours of Super Bowl coverage during the week.

Al Michaels, one of media’s most renowned broadcasters whose voice is synonymous with big events, will call Super Bowl LII alongside Cris Collinsworth and Michele Tafoya. Michaels will become only the second television commentator to earn 10 Super Bowl play-by-play assignments – joining former CBS and FOX announcer Pat Summerall (11). Collinsworth and Tafoya will each work their fourth Super Bowl.

Listed below are some key metrics about NBC Sports Group’s coverage of Super Bowl LII:

1                      ND1 – NBC Sports’ state-of-the-art, remote production unit designed and built by NEP. The Emmy Award-winning Sunday Night Football production team, led by Fred Gaudelli (executive producer) and Drew Esocoff (director), will use ND1 to produce Super Bowl LII 

2                      SkyCams NBC will use to cover the game (including “High Sky”), marking the first-time any network has featured dual SkyCams for Super Bowl coverage

3                      Number of Super Bowls streamed on NBC Sports Digital, powered by Playmaker Media. The most by any U.S. broadcaster partner.

5                     60-second advertising spots NBC will showcase throughout Super Bowl Sunday, including one at halftime, to promote the PyeongChang Olympics

7                      Number of 4K UHD cameras being used to cover the game

10                    Hours of unauthenticated streaming coverage available on NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app throughout Super Bowl Sunday

10 +                 NBCUniversal shows onsite or reporting from Minneapolis

14                    Mobile units

19                    Super Bowls NBC has broadcast (including LII)

32                    Years Al Michaels has been the voice of the premier primetime NFL package

50                    Miles of camera and microphone cable

60                    Combined Sports Emmy Awards for Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth, Michele Tafoya, executive producer Fred Gaudelli, and director Drew Esocoff

100 +               Hours of coverage from NBC Sports Boston and NBC Sports Philadelphia on the Patriots and Eagles, respectively, during Super Bowl week 

106                  Cameras used for Super Bowl (76 – including 20 pylon cameras) and pre-game (30) coverage

130                  Microphones

500 +               NBC Sports Group employees on site in Minneapolis

700                  Hotel rooms used by NBC over a two-week period in the Twin Cities

1500                Meals served to crew members on gameday

264,000           Feet of camera and microphone cable

$5 million +    Cost of a 30-second advertisement during Super Bowl LII

–NBC Sports Group–