CBS Sports to Broadcast Super Bowl XLIV Live on February 7th

CBS Sports culminates its coverage of the 2009-10 NFL season with Super Bowl XLIV on Sunday, Feb. 7 (6:28 PM, ET kick-off) from Sun Life Stadium in Miami, Fla., live on the CBS Television Network.  CBS Sports last broadcast the Super Bowl in 2007 when the Indianapolis Colts defeated the Chicago Bears, 29-17.  Super Bowl XLIV will be the Network's 17th Super Bowl broadcast overall.

CBS Sports' Jim Nantz and Phil Simms call the action, marking the second time in his illustrious 25-year CBS Sports broadcasting career that Nantz calls play-by-play for the Super Bowl.  Nantz called his first Super Bowl in 2007 and hosted the Network's Super Bowl pre-game show, The Super Bowl Today, in 2001 and 2004.  Simms provides analysis for his sixth Super Bowl, the fourth for CBS Sports.  Nantz and Simms are joined on the broadcast by NFL on CBS analysts Steve Tasker and Solomon Wilcots serving as sideline reporters.  Super Bowl XLIV is produced by Lance Barrow, Coordinating Producer, The NFL on CBS, and directed by Mike Arnold.

CBS Sports' coverage of Super Bowl XLIV begins with The Super Bowl Today, the Network's pre-game studio show (2:00-6:00 PM, ET) with host James Brown along with analysts Dan Marino, Boomer Esiason, Shannon Sharpe and Bill Cowher, as well as NFL Insider Charley Casserly, reporters Lesley Visser, Sam Ryan, Tasker, Wilcots and contributor Dick Enberg.

CBS News anchor of THE CBS Evening News, Katie Couric, serves as a special contributor and will provide a special report during the pre-game show.

Eric Mann is senior producer and Bob Matina is director of The Super Bowl Today.

Sean McManus is President, CBS News and Sports and serves as executive producer for the Network's coverage of the NFL and Super Bowl XLIV.  Harold Bryant is Vice President, Production, CBS Sports.