Joe Buck is likely to leave FOX Sports after broadcasting 24 World Series with them. He will likely be joining ESPN to broadcast NFL and MLB games.
He has been the radio play-by-play broadcaster for the World Series on ESPN Radio since 2011. In his time at FOX, Buck has called 24 World Series (1996, 1998, 2000-2021), which puts him in a three-way tie for the all-time lead. Joe Buck has been broadcasting Major League Baseball on a full-time basis since he was 22 in 1991.
Buck, 52, has called the World Series for nearly a quarter century and was Fox's play-by-player on six Super Bowls.
At 25 years old, he was the youngest ever to call the NFL on a full-time basis. It is high on its lead college football analyst Joel Klatt, though, it is not expected to move him to the NFL. He is expected to sign a contract in the five-year, $60-$75 million range with ESPN, according to sources. They could try to renegotiate, though, they won’t come near the Buck/Aikman range. Fox will consider Joe Davis and Adam Amin internally, while also looking into ESPN’s Dan Shulman and MLB Network’s Matt Vasgersian externally, according to sources. Aikman agreed to a five-year, $92.5 million contract, according to sources. Buck and Aikman were only able to jump into this salary sphere after Tony Romo’s landmark 10-year, $180 million contract with CBS two years ago. Michaels, 77, has been on the one-yard line with Amazon about being the voice of its “Thursday Night Football” coverage. With Buck moving to ESPN, it blocked Al Michaels from possibly joining Aikman there. Fox, though, is letting him out early as a good gesture for his years of service to the company. On Friday, Fox granted Buck permission to talk with ESPN, according to sources. Nonetheless, the star power of Buck, Aikman and the Mannings will cost ESPN around $50 million per year.
Michelle Beisner-Buck took to social media Friday to confirm the big news that her husband, Joe Buck, will be exiting FOX Sports' broadcasts and heading to ...
FOX will receive the ability to choose one Big Ten football game earlier next season, according to a source. One interesting note on the decision. Joe Buck had a year left on his contract.
There will be no outdated animated rabbit, or other cartoon animal, to move from Disney to Fox in order to seal the Joe Buck deal.
Buck had one year left on his deal with Fox. It made more sense for him to go now, if he were going to leave in a year, anyway. At ESPN, he’ll earn an annual salary in the range of $12 million to $15 million. Andrew Marchand of the New York Post reports that Fox has allowed Buck to leave for ESPN in exchange for dibs on an early-season Big Ten college football game in 2022.
Joe Buck will team up at ESPN with his former color analyst at Fox, Troy Aikman, who also left the network in late February.
“There’s probably more that could be said, and I think maybe it will in the right time," Aikman told WFAA on March 1. The Post reported that Buck is expected to sign a five-year contract with ESPN, worth between $60 million and $75 million. When he called a full slate of NFL games at the age of 25, he became the youngest play-by-play announcer to do so.
With Joe Buck heading to ESPN to reunite with Troy Aikman, FOX is in desperate need of a replacement for its NFL coverage this fall.
If FOX is comfortable with him calling the network’s top game each week, he could receive a promotion this offseason. “Meanwhile, with Buck leaving, Kevin Burkhardt is the clear favorite, according to sources, to be Fox’s lead NFL play-by-player, which is significant on many levels, including because Fox has two of the next three Super Bowls on its air,” Marchand wrote. According to Andrew Marchand of the New York Post, the “clear favorite” to replace Buck is Kevin Burkhardt.
Buck still had one year and $11 million remaining on his contract with FOX, but he was allowed to explore other options due to his longtime commitment to ...
"Monday Night Football" was once the stomping grounds of legends like Howard Cosell and John Madden. Aikman will soon have those shoes to fill ... and now Buck has followed in his ESPN footsteps. Aikman, the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and Hall of Famer, was in recent months, with his contract up, flirted with by Amazon, which had hoped to team him with Michaels for Amazon’s Thursday night games in 2022. His new deal with ESPN is reported to be worth around five years and $75 million.
Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman is poised to move from FOX Sports to ESPN, and Joe Buck might come along for the ride.
Buck was a local radio and television announcer for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1991 to 2007. Buck also works closely with the Parkinson’s Foundation, Mathews-Dickey Boys’ & Girls’ Club and City of Hope. Buck joined FOX Sports in 1994, and along with analyst Tim Green, formed one of FOX NFL’s six original broadcast teams. Joe is the son of late broadcasting legend Jack Buck, whose career spanned parts of six decades. As the lead voice for FOX NFL since 2002, Buck worked with analysts Aikman and Cris Collinsworth for three seasons (2002-04), before partnering exclusively with Aikman in 2005. Buck called his 16th All-Star Game in 2014, placing him first on the all-time list of play-by-play announcers, surpassing Curt Gowdy’s 14. The New York Post’s Andrew Marchand reports “The exact terms of what ESPN might offer Buck is not yet fully known, but it is expected to be in the range of five years and $60 million-$75 million, if the network gets the chance. In working his 15th MLB All-Star Game with analyst Tim McCarver in 2013, the duo totaled more All-Star Games than any other broadcast pair. Buck has called an astounding six Super Bowls, 24 World Series and 26 MLB League Championship Series for the network. It marked the first time in sports television history that a broadcaster hosted an NFL pregame show while simultaneously handling play-by-play duties. That season, FOX NFL SUNDAY traveled to the site of each week’s biggest game, allowing Buck to both host the pregame show and call each game. I think that’s because there is this noise of ‘Where am I going to be?’ It’s really a no-lose (situation), I’m happy really either way (with Fox or ESPN). ... It’s all good.
According to the report, he is set to sign a massive deal to call “Monday Night Football.”
Buck will leave Fox, his home of nearly 30 years. The pair will replace Steve Levy, Brian Griese and Louis Riddick, who called Monday Night Football for two seasons. After years of struggling to find a consistent, top-flight team to call Monday Night Football, it appears that ESPN has poached not one, but both of Fox’s top broadcast personalities for its weekly game.
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Buck had one-year at $11 million remaining on his contract, according to Marchand, but Fox is letting him out of his deal as a “good gesture for his years of service.” Marchand adds that Buck’s new deal is expected to be in the five-year, $60 million to $75 million range with ESPN. Joe Buck and Troy Aikman are staying partners in the broadcast booth. Andrew Marchand of The New York Post reports that Buck is expected to leave Fox to join Aikman at ESPN.
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Aikman agreed to a five-year, $92.5 million contract, according to sources. He is expected to sign a contract in the five-year, $60-$75 million range with ESPN, according to sources. On Friday, Fox granted Buck permission to talk with ESPN, according to sources.
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ESPN is splashing the cash to remake its MNF booth—Marchand reported that Aikman's deal with the media company is for five years and $92.5 million. That duo, alongside the Manningcast, gives ESPN some punch on Monday nights. According to Andrew Marchand of the New York Post, Buck is "expected to sign a contract in the five-year, $60-75 million range with ESPN."
The NFL world took to Twitter to react to the groundbreaking news of Joe Buck leaving Fox to join ESPN's Monday Night Football.
Buck still had one year and $11 million remaining on his contract with Fox, but the network allowed him to explore other options due to his longtime commitment to the company. He will now rejoin his longtime broadcasting partner Troy Aikman, who left Fox to become Monday Night Football’s lead analyst earlier this year. This news creates a seismic shift in the sports media landscape as we know it.
In one of the more jaw-dropping sports media moves in history, Joe Buck is reportedly moving from Fox Sports to ESPN, where he'll team up with Troy Aikman ...
He is expected to sign a contract in the five-year, $60-$75 million range with ESPN, according to sources. On Friday, Fox granted Buck permission to talk with ESPN, according to sources. Like Aikman, Buck is expected to get a five-year deal from ESPN, though his salary won’t be as exorbitant as Aikman’s.
Joe Buck reportedly is leaving Fox to join Troy Aikman at the helm of "Monday Night Football."
But at a cost.“I’m proud of the line I came up with to say in the mirror years ago — ‘I’m deathly afraid of overexposure on TV and underexposure at home,’” he said in 2018.Now he seems to be done on the World Series, at least for the foreseeable future. And he was the network’s lead golf announcer in the several years it had USGA events.He had become Fox Sports, at least in terms of visibility and on-air clout. And they remained Fox’s top team until Madden left for NBC in 2002 and Summerall took a reduced role at Fox. In stepped Buck to the lead NFL chair, joined by commentators Aikman and Cris Collinsworth.So Buck then was calling all the big games for Fox, NFL and MLB. Six times he has broadcast the Super Bowl and World Series in the same season. In recent Octobers, when baseball was at its pinnacle and overlapping with the meat of the NFL season, he seemingly was on every night. He has been broadcasting for Fox Sports since its inception, in 1994, when he was just 25 and part of a stable of young announcers hired to call NFL games. And this wasn’t some limited package of regional telecasts — he broadcast the World Series that year alongside analyst Tim McCarver. That’s something that he now has done 24 times, 22 in a row, shattering or tying longevity records along the way.But another well-know partnership, Summerall & Madden, was the gold standard at Fox Sports — probably all of sportscasting — when it debuted. Fox scored a coup in ‘94 by not only landing the portion of the NFL package CBS had carried for decades but also by luring Pat Summerall and John Madden. after the skeptics thought there was no way they would join “the Simpsons network” lineup.But they did. They go together like Procter & Gamble, Barnes & Noble. It’s difficult to think of one without the other. This website stores data such as cookies to enable essential site functionality, as well as marketing, personalization, and analytics. He quickly rose in the company, being tabbed as its lead baseball play-by-play announcer two years later. By remaining on this website you indicate your consent. for the low price of
Buck is expected to reunite with Troy Aikman, who also left FOX and publicly said he hopes to work with Buck again.
"This is going to be life changing for our family." Buck's new contract could be in the five-year, $60 million-$75 million range with ESPN, according to the Post. The news was first reported Friday afternoon by Andrew Marchand of the New York Post.
Legendary sports broadcaster Joe Buck is leaving Fox after nearly three decades with the network and will join ESPN's Monday Night Football coverage, ...
Change is hard, but change is good. Buck will now rejoin his broadcast partner Troy Aikman, who left Fox for ESPN at the end of the NFL season. “Ohhhhhh Emmmmmm Geeeeee!!! Welcome to the [ESPN NFL] Fam, Fam!!!!!!! I love you so much [Joe buck] - Insanely proud and excited that you and [Troy Aikman] are OFFICIALLY the voices of Monday Night Football!!!!” Beisner-Buck wrote.
Lead football and baseball play-by-play announcer Joe Buck is leaving Fox Sports for ESPN, his wife, Michelle Beisner-Buck, wrote on Instagram on Friday.
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According to Andrew Marchand, Kevin Burkhardt is the "internal favorite" to replace Joe Buck as Fox's No. 1 NFL announcer next season. %
We also know that Sean Payton has been a top target for Fox and who knows where all of this announcer madness leaves those negotiations. Michaels has called 12 Super Bowls and would likely love the chance to surpass Pat Summerall for the most ever. According to Andrew Marchand, who broke both the Aikman and Buck stories, the “internal favorite” to take over as Fox’s top NFL announcer is Kevin Burkhardt.
Andrew Marchand reports ESPN will trade another Big Ten game pick to Fox for Buck. AA has heard that will likely be ND-OSU.
Georgia-Oregon is in the Pac-12 package, which ESPN and Fox split, but noon Eastern kickoffs are not ideal for West Coast teams, where that’s nine a.m. Pacific (the Pac-12 has explored that idea, but has so far only done it on rare occasions). Illinois-Indiana might be the Big Noon pick if Fox wasn’t able to get Notre Dame-Ohio State, but they absolutely would prefer the Fighting Irish and Buckeyes. And that would let them start their season (well, the main part of their season; there will be Week 0 games and midweek games before this) off with a bang. There are several potential candidate games Fox could use this pick on, but the selection AA has heard is most likely is the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at the Ohio State Buckeyes in Week 1, on September 3. They tend to use that first pick on Ohio State-Michigan, which is sometimes the year’s most-watched regular-season game and is always Fox’s most-watched regular-season game; thus, when that game didn’t happen in 2020, that was a huge blow for them. The two big differences that lead Fox to pay that much more are that they get the conference championship game and first pick of regular-season football games. Marchand then noted on Twitter later Friday that in return, Fox is expected to receive the right to pick one extra Big Ten game before ESPN this fall: There’s been talk of Joe Buck heading to ESPN for weeks since that network agreed to a deal with Troy Aikman, but a complicating factor there was that unlike Aikman (who was able to exercise an opt-out and become a free agent), Buck had a year left on his Fox deal.
Now that Joe Buck is expected to join ESPN this offseason, FOX must find a suitable replacement for its NFL and MLB coverage.
Assuming that Buck joins Aikman at ESPN, FOX will need to figure out which two commentators will be their top duo. FOX tried to keep Buck, but it’s offer might not have been as strong. Kevin Burkhardt is currently the “clear favorite” to replace Buck as FOX’s top play-by-play broadcaster.