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  Under his management, ‘Sunday Night Football’ broadcasts have topped primetime scores chart for 12 consecutive seasons

In 2022, skilled soccer accounted for 82 of the nation’s 100 top-rated tv reveals. And no primetime program over any of the previous 12 years — an unprecedented run in American broadcasting — has outdrawn NBC’s “Sunday Night Football.”

Today, the Pro Football Hall of Fame introduced that the particular person on the helm for NBC Sports’ soccer protection throughout its 16 years of scores dominance, Fred Gaudelli, has been chosen to obtain its 2023 Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award.

“The Hall of Fame presents this award annually in recognition of longtime exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football, and no one has set a better example of exactly what this award represents than Fred Gaudelli,” mentioned Jim Porter, president of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. “Millions of fans have tuned into ‘Sunday Night Football’ week after week and year after year, and Fred continually took the broadcast to new heights.”

Gaudelli will likely be honored in the course of the 2023 Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Week Powered by Johnson Controls that features the Enshrinees’ Gold Jacket Dinner in downtown Canton on Friday, Aug. 4, and the Class of 2023 Enshrinement on Saturday, Aug. 5, in Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium.

“I’m beyond honored and overjoyed to be named this year’s recipient of the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award,” Gaudelli mentioned. “Pete Rozelle blazed the trail that enabled the National Football League to become America’s No. 1 entertainment entity. For 33 years and counting, I’ve had the privilege of contributing to that legacy by producing primetime games for four networks: ESPN, ABC, NBC & Amazon Prime. Joining former award winners — not to mention colleagues and friends including John Madden, Al Michaels, Chris Berman, Dick Ebersol, Howard Katz and Andrea Kremer — makes this honor the greatest of my career.”

Katz gained the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award in 2022. Kremer, in 2018, turned the second girl to win the award.

Gaudelli accomplished his thirty third season because the lead producer for an NFL primetime TV recreation final January. He served as government producer of the debut of Amazon Prime Video’s “Thursday Night Football,” a collaboration with NBC Sports.

Under Gaudelli’s steering, NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” turned the most-honored reside sports activities collection in U.S. tv historical past. In its first 16 seasons on NBC (2006-2021), this system gained 30 Sports Emmys and picked up a report 11 as Outstanding Live Sports Series.

Prior to becoming a member of “Sunday Night Football,” Gaudelli spent 5 seasons as producer of ABC’s “Monday Night Football.” Under his management, “Monday Night Football” and the manufacturing of Super Bowl XXXVII had been nominated for 9 Emmy Awards and gained 4, together with Outstanding Live Sports Series in 2004. He produced ESPN’s Sunday evening video games from 1990 by way of 2000, successful Outstanding Live Sports Series for the 2000 season.

Gaudelli is credited with a number of improvements that improved the TV viewing expertise. He launched the “1st & Ten technology” (the electronically produced line that reveals the primary down mark on the sector), the AimPost Cam and the rotating clock/rating field.

A 24-time Emmy winner and producer of seven Super Bowls, Gaudelli was elected to the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in August 2020 for career-long excellence within the sports activities TV and media business.

A local of Harrison, N.Y., Gaudelli earned a Bachelor of Arts diploma in communications from Long Island University/C.W. Post in 1982. He resides in Madison, Conn.

Past winners of the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award

• 2022 – Howard Katz
• 2021 – John Facenda
• 2020 – Joe Buck
• 2019 – Dick Ebersol
• 2018 – Andrea Kremer
• 2017 – David Hill
• 2016 – James Brown
• 2015 – Tom Jackson
• 2014 – Bob Trumpy
• 2013 – Al Michaels
• 2012 – Len Dawson
• 2011 – Jim Nantz
• 2010 – Chris Berman
• 2009 – Irv Cross
• 2008 – Dan Dierdorf
• 2007 – Don Meredith
• 2006 – Lesley Visser
• 2005 – Myron Cope
• 2004 – Van Miller
• 2003 – Don Criqui
• 2002 – John Madden
• 2001 – Roone Arledge
• 2000 – Ray Scott
• 1999 – Dick Enberg
• 1998 – Val Pinchbeck
• 1997 – Charlie Jones
• 1996 – Jack Buck
• 1995 – Frank Gifford
• 1994 – Pat Summerall
• 1993 – Curt Gowdy
• 1992 – Chris Schenkel
• 1991 – Ed Sabol
• 1990 – Lindsey Nelson
• 1989 – Bill McPhail