ESPN makes $108 million Joe Buck decision as veteran announcer secures long term future with Monday Night Football
The veteran broadcaster has reportedly agreed to a six-year contract extension worth about $108 million, according to The Athletic. The deal would keep him as the voice of Monday Night Football through 2032 and also cover ESPN’s next two Super Bowl broadcasts in 2027 and 2031. Buck joined ESPN in 2022 after leaving FOX, where he had spent decades calling major NFL and MLB events. Buck’s new contract is worth around $108 million across six years, according to The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand. That works out to roughly $18 million per year, which would make him one of ESPN’s highest-paid on-air personalities.
The move comes months after Buck said he wanted to finish his broadcasting career with ESPN. Joe Buck’s future at ESPN now looks much clearer. The Athletic was the first to report the agreement.
He moved to ESPN alongside longtime broadcast partner Troy Aikman, and the pair have continued working together on Monday Night Football.
Buck’s current contract was set to expire after the 2026 NFL season. Buck is 57 and has already built one of the longest careers in sports broadcasting. He has called 24 World Series and has worked alongside Aikman for more than two decades.
Because his longtime partner Aikman’s contract situation was also uncertain, before the reported extension, there had been plenty of interest in what he might do next, especially.
The new agreement also fits with something Buck said earlier this year. “If you reached through my computer screen right now and handed me a contract to continue my time at ESPN, I would sign it without even looking at it,” Buck said. At that time, Buck said there had been no formal contract talks, but he was open about wanting to remain with the network.
In April, he spoke with Richard Deitsch of Sports Business Journal about his future and made it clear that he did not want to leave ESPN. ESPN itself describes their partnership as the longest-running NFL broadcast duo in history.