NBC Sports' Doug Flutie and Mike Mayock will swap broadcast positions for Saturday's Northwestern-Notre Dame game. Flutie has served as a sideline analyst this year but Saturday will move to the broadcast booth alongside play-by-play man Dan Hicks. Mayock will move from the booth to the sideline. Kathryn Tappen continues as sideline reporter (NBC). In Chicago, Ed Sherman wrote at the "very least, it seems as if Flutie is getting an audition to be the game analyst" for Notre Dame in '15. The move "makes sense" since Flutie "has a much bigger name as one of the game's all-time legends" (CHICAGOTRIBUNE.com, 11/12).
MIAMI HEIST: In Miami, Charles Rabin reports there was an "early morning heist" yesterday of the production truck used for "The Rich Eisen Show," which airs on DirecTV. Eisen is in Miami for tonight's Bills-Dolphins "TNF" game, and his "48-foot, multimillion-dollar, state-of-the-art television production truck" was stolen from the parking lot of a Miami Lakes hotel. Police "recovered the trailer in Northwest Dade and said it didn’t appear anything had been stolen or damaged, although the truck cab was still missing." NEP Marketing Manager Meredith Knight, whose company owns the truck, said that the show "wouldn’t have missed a beat anyway, as another production truck from an alternate location was already on its way" (MIAMI HERALD, 11/13).
SWITCHING FIELDS: In London, Christopher Williams reported BT Sport will "invest in its own team to produce" UEFA Champions League coverage next season. The company "currently relies" on Sunset+Vine, an independent production company, for live coverage on BT Sport but will "create an in-house operation for the Champions League." Sunset+Vine "will continue to produce" EPL and FA Cup coverage (London TELEGRAPH, 11/11).
