Tom Brady’s Fox broadcast schedule to start in Washington, Kansas City and Chicago: Source

The second year of the Tom Brady broadcasting experience will begin in the nation’s capital.

Fox’s top NFL team — Brady, Kevin Burkhardt, Erin Andrews and Tom Rinaldi — will call the New York Giants at Washington Commanders game at 1:00 p.m. ET on Sept. 7, the first Sunday of the regular season. The following week, the crew will be in Kansas City for one of Fox’s biggest early season games — a Super Bowl LIX rematch between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Chiefs.

It hasn’t been announced yet but the team is expected to be in Chicago for the Week 3 game between the Dallas Cowboys and Bears, per a source briefed on Fox Sports’ NFL plans who spoke on condition of anonymity because the network hasn’t said anything publicly.

Prior to the schedule release, Fox asked the NFL for more variety among the teams in its 4:25 p.m. ET Sunday window. Fox has long relied on the Cowboys in this late-afternoon window (the most-watched time slot on television), but this year schedule on Fox leans into more teams in the late afternoon, including the Eagles-Chiefs in Week 2.

“I think CBS has actually had good success having their first doubleheader be in Week 2 the last couple years, so we asked to move off Week 1 as the doubleheader,” Mike Mulvihill, the head of insights and analytics for Fox Sports, told The Athletic earlier this year. “It’s fine for a single-header, and we’re coming back with our first really special game of the year (Philadelphia at Kansas City).”

The Week 2 game for Fox should set the network up with its first big viewership number. The Super Bowl LIX broadcast of Philadelphia’s 40-22 rout of Kansas City drew an average audience of 127.7 million viewers across Fox, Fox Deportes, Tubi, Telemundo and NFL digital properties, the most-watched Super Bowl of all time, topping last year’s record Super Bowl audience of 123.7 million viewers for CBS.

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