Behind the Mic: FOX Sports Ratchets Up UEFA Women's EURO 2025 With Top-Class Broadcast Team; NBA on NBC' Adds Maria Taylor, Grant Hill By Kristian Hern ndez, Senior Editor
Friday, June 27, 2025 - 7:30 am
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Behind The Mic provides a roundup of recent news regarding on-air talent, including new deals, departures, and assignments compiled from press releases and reports around the industry. In this week's edition, FOX Sports prepares for UEFA Women's EURO 2025 with deep team of on-air talent, NBC Sports' coverage of the NBA adds two notable faces to the roster, and more.
FOX Sports Unveils Broadcaster Lineup for Presentation of UEFA Women's EURO 2025 FOX Sports, America's English-language home for the world's top international soccer tournaments, has unveiled its distinguished roster of broadcasters covering the network's historic inaugural presentation of the UEFA Women's EURO 2025.
Earlier this summer, FOX Sports announced the tournament will make history when it debuts on U.S. English-language broadcast television for the first time with a spotlight schedule featuring a record 19 matches airing on FOX, 11 on FS1 and one on FS2.
Studio
Delivering pre-and-post match analysis, highlights and more in-depth discussion around the tournament, Women's EURO Today serves as the network's studio show on FOX, FS1 and FS2 with just over 17 hours of dedicated coverage.
Studio coverage for the tournament will be anchored by FOX Sports' lineup of soccer legends and renown broadcasters featuring a pair of U.S. Women's National Team (USWNT) stars and former teammates providing expert analysis with Carli Lloyd and Julie Ertz in her FOX Sports debut. Ariane Hingst, one of the greatest defenders in the history of German soccer and a two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion with Germany, joins Lloyd and Ertz in studio as an analyst for the competition alongside National Soccer Hall of Famer Alexi Lalas and former U.S. Men's National Team dynamo Stu Holden.
Celebrated presenter Jules Breach rounds out FOX Sports' UEFA Women's EURO 2025 studio team as the network's lead host for the tournament after anchoring the lead host role for last summer's UEFA EURO 2024.
Announcers
Acclaimed commentators Jacqui Oatley, JP Dellacamera, and John Strong will serve as play-by-play announcers for the competition, while former international soccer stars for club and country Lori Lindsey (USWNT), Lianne Sanderson (England), and Jen Beattie (Scotland) provide color commentary as match analysts. Oatley pairs with Lindsey, Dellacamera with Sanderson and Strong with Beattie to call matches throughout the Group Stage.
Both Sanderson and Beattie will also appear as studio analysts on Women's EURO Today throughout the tournament.
Former international referee Mark Clattenburg serves as rules analyst for the competition, providing special insight into key moments.
Maria Taylor, Grant Hill Join NBA on NBC Maria Taylor has been named NBC Sports' lead NBA studio host for its coverage of the association, which begins this October on NBC and Peacock. Taylor will host NBC Sports' NBA studio programs on Sunday and Tuesday nights alongside analysts Carmelo Anthony and Vince Carter. She will also host select WNBA games on NBC and Peacock when NBC Sports' coverage of the women's league begins in the spring of 2026.
One of the most versatile hosts in sports, Taylor has already anchored many of NBC Sports' biggest events. Since 2022, she has been the lead host and first full-time female host of Football Night in America, the most-watched studio show in sports. Taylor also served as a host for the Tokyo, Beijing, and Paris Olympics; Big Ten College Countdown, NBC Sports' primetime college football studio program; Roland-Garros semifinals and finals; and more.
Taylor has prior experience working on the NBA having hosted ESPN NBA Countdown playoffs and Finals coverage in recent years. A former Division I volleyball and basketball player at the University of Georgia, she also hosted College Gameday as well as the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament selection show and Final Four coverage during her time at ESPN. As a result of her NBA duties, Taylor will no longer host Big Ten College Countdown. A new host will be announced soon.
Taylor won a Sports Emmy as part of NBCUniversal's coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympics, which was honored as Outstanding Live Special - Championship Event. Additionally, in 2021, Adweek named her one of the Most Powerful Women in Sports, while in 2022, TIME Magazine included her in its TIME100 Next list, which identifies the emerging leaders who are shaping the future.
Grant Hill, a member of both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, will also join NBC Sports' NBA coverage as a game analyst.
Hill's illustrious 18-season NBA career includes countless accomplishments and accolades: a seven-time NBA All-Star, including four consecutive appearances from 1995-1998; five-time All-NBA selection, including First Team in 1997; NBA Co-Rookie of the Year in 1995; a gold medalist with Team USA at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics; three-time NBA Sportsmanship Award winner; and culminated his professional career with enshrinement in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018. Throughout his career, Hill spent time with the Detroit Pistons, Orlando Magic, Phoenix Suns, and Los Angeles Clippers.
Since retiring in 2013, Hill has made a successful transition to NBA and college basketball broadcasting, having called the past 10 Final Fours as an analyst for TNT Sports and CBS Sports' joint coverage of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament as well as high-profile regular season NBA games and
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Behind the Mic: FOX Sports Ratchets Up UEFA Women's EURO 2025 With Top-Class Broadcast Team; NBA on NBC' Adds Maria Taylor, Grant Hill By Kristian Hern ndez, Senior Editor 
