(Updated from original posting) Will Carrie Underwood be replacing Faith Hill on NBC Sunday Night NFL? Yep. The announcement verifying this just went official.
NBC Sports said so on conference call just now. The Sports Bank published this post around 3pm CDT Monday. By 10 pm, three Country music stations (103.7 The Gator in Gainesville, FL, B97.9 in Sikeston, MO, Y100 WNCY in Green Bay, WI) all followed our lead and called this.
Carrie Underwood also wrote on the wall of her Facebook fan page yesterday:
Just to let you know, we have some great news that we’ll be sharing tomorrow! I’m really excited about it! Stay tuned…
Underwood also tweeted yesterday:
Just to let you know, we have some great news that we’ll be sharing tomorrow! I’m really excited about it! Stay tuned…
— Carrie Underwood (@carrieunderwood) May 6, 2013
Meanwhile NBC sent out a notice on Monday, for a media conference call, specifically about SNF, for Tuesday, and it was scheduled for the exact same time that Underwood was set to make her announcement.
Faith Hill has been doing the NFL “waiting all day for Sunday night” theme on NBC ever since the peacock regained broadcast rights in 2006. Other than season, when Pink sung the theme. However, it’s “Faith No More” as she won’t be doing the theme this fall.
Carrie makes her debut with the first Sunday night NFL game Sept 8th: N.Y. GIANTS AT DALLAS COWBOYS, 7:30pm CDT
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