Beginning in July, King will exclusively write his Monday Morning Quarterback column for NBCSports.com. He’ll appear on NBC’s “Football Night in America” Sunday night pregame show and NBC Sports Radio’s “PFT Live with Mike Florio.”
“As one of the best NFL reporters in history, Peter’s information, storytelling, and analysis make us better across the board,” Sam Flood, executive producer and president, production, for NBC Sports and NBCSN, said in a statement. “With Peter expanding his NBC Sports presence from Football Night to PFT Live and digital, football fans are the big winners.”
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During his 29-year SI career, King became the country’s leading NFL writer. Both NBC and ESPN tried to hire King in 2012, but he reworked his deal with SI to gain more autonomy, launching The MMQB microsite in 2013.
With SI now under different ownership, things have changed. King is poised to leave the publisher with which he became a household name. He wrote a long statement explaining his decision on SI.com:
The King announcement capped a busy day of sports media changes. ESPN announced it was hiring Jason Witten, who is retiring from the Cowboys, to succeed the departed Jon Gruden as color analyst for “Monday Night Football.” CBS Sports announced the hiring of ex-Cardinals coach Bruce Arians as an NFL game analyst. Arians will work with Greg Gumbel and Trent Green.
