Fox NFL Kickoff
| Fox NFL Kickoff | |
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Alternate horizontal version of program logo used since September 2015
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| Genre | NFL pre-game show |
| Presented by |
Charissa Thompson Charles Tillman Dave Wannstedt Colin Cowherd (for past hosts and analysts, see article) |
| Theme music composer | Scott Schreer |
| Opening theme | "NFL on Fox theme music" |
| Composer(s) | Scott Schreer |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | Fox Network Center Los Angeles, California |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Fox Sports |
| Distributor | 20th Television |
| Release | |
| Original network |
Fox Sports 1 (2013–2015) Fox (2015–present) |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV), 720p (HDTV) |
| Original release | September 8, 2013 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Fox NFL Sunday |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Fox NFL Kickoff is an American sports television program that originally debuted on Fox Sports 1 on September 8, 2013, and moved to Fox Broadcasting Company on September 13, 2015, and serves as the secondary pre-game show for the network's National Football League game telecasts under the NFL on Fox brand.
The hour-long program – which airs Sunday mornings at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time – focuses on news and analysis of the week's upcoming NFL games as well as interviews with NFL coaches and players, and live reports from sites for the network's game telecasts, serving as an extension of Fox's primary NFL pre-game show, Fox NFL Sunday, whose own analysts appear on certain segments seen on the program. An audio simulcast of the program airs on sister radio network Fox Sports Radio, which is distributed by Premiere Radio Networks.
On August 12, 2013, Fox Sports announced that it would launch Fox NFL Kickoff as a supplementary pre-game show to the Fox broadcast network's NFL coverage on Sundays; the program premiered on September 8, 2013 – the inaugural Sunday of that year's NFL season – on Fox Sports 1, the division's national sports network that launched three weeks earlier on August 17.
For its first two seasons, the program was originally hosted by Joel Klatt; former NFL players Randy Moss, Brian Urlacher and Donovan McNabb served as analysts, providing previews and prognostications for the day's game slate and reviewing any games held earlier that week. Urlacher left the program shortly after it began its second season on September 16, 2014, following his decision to resign from his analyst role at Fox Sports; Former Chicago Bears and Miami Dolphins head coach Dave Wannstedt became an analyst shortly beforehand at the start of the second season. McNabb was placed on an indefinite suspension by the sports division on July 12, 2015, following his arrest on a DUI complaint. During years when Fox holds the broadcast rights to the Super Bowl, the program is retitled Fox Super Bowl Kickoff, running as a four-hour broadcast.
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