Having just started the final season of his original ESPN contract, Joe Buck has landed a new deal that will keep him as the play-by-play voice of Monday Night Football. <\/p>\n
Per The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand<\/a>, Buck has agreed to a six-year extension with the network that will pay him “in the neighborhood” of $108 million. <\/p>\n The $18 million average annual salary for Buck on his new deal puts him in a tie for third<\/a> among all NFL broadcasters. He is also the highest-paid play-by-play announcer.<\/p>\n Buck spent 27 years at Fox from 1994 to 2021 when he did play-by-play for the network’s NFL and MLB coverage. He became the lead announcer for MLB coverage in 1996 and for NFL coverage in 2002 when he replaced Pat Summerall.<\/p>\n ESPN signed Buck to a five-year, $75 million contract<\/a> in March 2022 to make him the voice of Monday Night Football.<\/p>\n The move to ESPN reunited Buck with longtime partner Troy Aikman, who joined the network on a five-year, $90 million<\/a> shortly before Buck’s deal. They originally started working together as the No. 1 team on Fox’s NFL coverage in 2002 as part of a three-man booth with Cris Collinsworth.<\/p>\n After Collinsworth joined NBC Sports prior to the 2005 season, Buck and Aikman became a two-man broadcast team.<\/p>\n