NBC is expected to hire Islanders announcer Brendan Burke as the lead play-by-play broadcaster for Peacock’s MLB Sunday Leadoff, The New York Post’s Andrew Marchand reports.
Last year, NBC aired a baseball game every Sunday morning during the regular season on its Peacock streaming service as part of a new deal with MLB. The network had play-by-play announcer Jason Benetti at every game, along with two color commentators from each team playing that day.
Benetti, however, left NBC and ESPN in the fall for a full-time job at Fox Sports where he now works baseball, football and college football games as one of the network’s top broadcasters.
