{"id":180700,"date":"2025-08-27T21:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T21:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/180700\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T21:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T21:12:10","slug":"john-fanta-ditches-fox-to-become-nbcs-lead-big-east-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/180700\/","title":{"rendered":"John Fanta ditches Fox to become NBC&#8217;s lead Big East voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fan favorite college basketball announcer and personality John Fanta is on the move.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6579421\/2025\/08\/27\/john-fanta-nbc-big-east\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a report by Andrew Marchand of The Athletic<\/a>, Fanta is leaving Fox Sports to join NBC Sports as the lead play-by-play voice of Big East basketball. He will also work in a studio role on Big Ten basketball broadcasts and Notre Dame football games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: NBC Sports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/pressbox\/press-releases\/john-fanta-joins-nbc-sports-as-mens-basketball-play-by-play-voice-on-peacock-and-nbc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed the move<\/a> on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Per Marchand, \u201cNBC needed more play-by-play announcers to cover 200 men\u2019s and women\u2019s college games from the Big Ten, Big East and Big 12,\u201d especially as Noah Eagle makes his transition from college hoops to the NBA this season.<\/p>\n<p>As part of <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/college-basketball\/big-east-deals-fox-nbc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC\u2019s media rights agreement with the Big East<\/a>, the company will broadcast more than 60 men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball games each season, including some early-round Big East Tournament games. Last year, the first in which NBC was a broadcast partner with the Big East, Peacock streamed 25 regular-season men\u2019s basketball games in addition to five early-round tournament games.<\/p>\n<p>Fanta will also have the opportunity to call some Big Ten and Big 12 basketball games, per the report. His role in Notre Dame football games will consist of serving up in-game highlights from other action around the country. He\u2019s also expected to be \u201cin the mix\u201d as a sideline reporter for NBC\u2019s NBA coverage, and \u201ccould be part of the network\u2019s Olympic coverage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Fanta <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/college-basketball\/nbc-adds-john-fanta-college-basketball-coverage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worked for NBC in a limited capacity<\/a> while continuing to call college basketball on FS1. It seems that he left a good impression on the network, one that was enough for them to offer him an exclusive deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fan favorite college basketball announcer and personality John Fanta is on the move. According to a report by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":180701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,30695,102021,102022,102023,102024,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-180700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-big-east","10":"tag-cbb-on-fox","11":"tag-cbb-on-nbc","12":"tag-cbb-on-peacock","13":"tag-john-fanta","14":"tag-ncaa","15":"tag-ncaa-basketball","16":"tag-ncaabasketball","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}