FOX To Experiment With Adding Music To Game Coverage

n its regional Arizona Cardinals-Carolina Panthers game Sunday, FOX will add music to game coverage after an unannounced test on last week's Seattle Seahawks-San Francisco 49ers game. Fox Sports President Eric Shanks on whether such soundtracks will pop up on Fox's upcoming Super Bowl: "It's a possibility." Fox's Shanks says game playlists could include famous artists — "the rule is you use it just once and don't edit it" — but will also draw on original medleys. For Sunday's game, Fox has 15 new cuts from James Cardoni, who has composed music for the prime-time show CSI. Asked if NFL games might cross-promote Fox movies by using their theme songs, Shanks says "We haven't gotten that far, but that's really interesting. Have an NFL '70s night when American Idol has a '70s night? Maybe there's cross-promotion there."

Source: USA Today

 

I dunno man, I caught some of it flipping back and forth from the Niners game last week, I thought it was pretty annoying personally. Totally unnecessary and distracting.

 

Boooooo Fox

 

Crapty idea

 

Almost as bad as playing Barry Manilow going in and out of commercials. :facepalm:

 

Terrible. Takes ALOT to compete with the crapty game presentation of CBS but this might actually get Fox the worst award

 

dumb idea.

 

I could see if the ratings were lagging, but there's no reason to mess things like that.

 

Nothing better than some freaking jingle bells to go along with american football. FREAK YEA! I'm psyched about this. WOOOO.. FREAKING JACKED!