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Report: Al Michaels expected to return to Amazon Prime TNF in 2025

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Sportscasting legend Al Michaels is expected to return to Amazon’s Prime Video next year for Thursday Night Football, according to Andrew Marchand of The Athletic. Michaels’ three-year contract is set to expire at the end of this season, and he earns around $15 million per year.

Marchand said the plan is for Michaels to go year-by-year. The 80-year-old said multiple times that he will know when it’s time to retire.

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Michaels joined Prime Video as the full-time play-by-play announcer in 2022 after calling Sunday Night Football Games on NBC from 2006 to 2021. Last year, Michaels was caught off-guard when he was left out of NBC’s playoff broadcast booth rotation after the network chose to go with Noah Eagle for its second game of opening weekend. Michaels is scheduled to call an opening-round playoff game with Kirk Herbstreit for Prime Video this season.

In September, Michaels spoke to Jimmy Traina of Sports Illustrated about his relationship with Herbstreit and Amazon. “There’s a comfort zone here that we’re in. We had Mark Teitelman as our producer last year,” Michales said. “I think he did a hell of a job and Mark comes back. Pierre Moossa is a very underrated director.

Al Michaels is ‘living in the present’

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“I think Kaylee [Hartung] has really come along fabulously well as the sideline reporter. I love the people that are on our shoulder programming: Ryan Fitzpatrick, Andrew Whitworth, Richard Sherman, Tony Gonzalez, Charissa Thompson. It is a great group, and we have a lot of fun. It’s a very comfortable group to be with. So, all of that is terrific. The Amazon people have been extremely supportive.”

Michaels was also asked about his future with the streaming platform. “We signed a three-year deal and then we agreed along the way, let’s see where we are and I’ll see where I am,” he explained. “Right now, I feel great. I want to get into the season. I am living right now in the present. I’m not living in the past. I’m not thinking that much about the future. I want to go week-to-week and just enjoy what I’m doing and savor it and relish it.”