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The Boss has been locked in as half-time entertainment for the 2009 NFL Super Bowl, which screens on TEN from next year.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will rock it out at Tampa, Florida on February 1, 2009 (US). They follow Prince who got the gig last year and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers in 2008. TEN has previously indicated this will air live on the main TEN channel as well as on TEN-HD.
Super Bowl last aired to a staggering 148 million viewers in the US alone. It is a major launching pad for new NBC programming, and considered just as entertaining for its lavish commercials as the game itself.
Hopefully Springsteen won’t have any wardrobe malfunctions during his brief show. That might look ok on Janet Jackson, but this guy’s gettin’ on a bit.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
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An announcement of a Super Bowl half-time *four months away* seems really premature, considering the season kicked off only a month ago. Even Tom Petty wasn’t announced until December, according to Wikipedia.
Thanks James. Amended.
Didn’t Tom Petty do half time in 2008?
Also, will this also be showing on Fox or ESPN as it was this year?
Ten do show some of the American ads during the NFL broadcast on Ten HD currently. There was even an ad for Two and a Half Men, albeit on CBS.
Victor, why would TEN show the American ads? They will be trying to make money off it by selling airspace at half time, not running the ads from America!
I would imagine that at best, they’d show the American ads at the conclusion of the broadcast.
Out of curiosity, will Ten be able to show the whole game seemlessly (including, specifically, the ads), unlike the ad clip show we got on SBS?