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Collinsworth swaps teams.(Cris Collinsworth)
Daily Variety, July, 2005 by Dempsey, John
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Cris Collinsworth is deserting the anchor booth as National Football League color commentator for Fox to become a pregame studio analyst for "NBC's Sunday Night Football" when it kicks off in fall 2006. That may sound like a comedown, but Dick Ebersol, chairman of sports and Olympics for NBC Universal, said in a conference call that NBC plans to turn Sunday from 7 p.m.
to midnight into "Football Night in America," featuring the first broadcast-primetime pregame show in television history. Fox Sports will not replace Collinsworth in the booth for its ...
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