James William Nantz III is an American sportscaster who has worked on telecasts of the National Football League (NFL), NCAA Division I men’s basketball, the NBA and the PGA Tour for CBS Sports since the 1980s.
Nantz joined CBS Sports in 1985, initially working as a studio host for the network’s college football and basketball coverage, and as an on-course reporter for PGA Tour golf, as well as calling NFL games on Westwood One
He has anchored CBS’s coverage of the Masters Tournament since 1989 and has been the lead play-by-play announcer on CBS’s NFL coverage since 2004.
Nantz is also one of two men to host a Super Bowl, announce an NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship game, and host coverage of The Masters from Butler Cabin with Brent Musburger being the other.
During Super Bowl XLVII, Joe Flacco unknowingly hit Nantz with the Vince Lombardi Trophy during the presentation, but Nantz simply brushed it off.
Nantz and broadcast partner Phil Simms called Thursday Night Football games in a deal with CBS and the NFL Network. Tracy Wolfson was the sideline reporter for the Thursday games along with the Sunday games on CBS.
Jim Nantz Salary: How much money does Jim Nantz make a year?
Just last year, Nantz signed a new contract with CBS, which goes as high as $10.5 million per year, per New York Post. In Nantz’s previous deal, he was earning an annual salary of $6.5 million.
His role with the network involves him calling games during the NFL season and the Final Four along with working golf tournaments, including the Masters.
Nantz joined CBS in 1985. In his time with the network, he’s called six Super Bowls (including Super Bowl 55).
He’s also previously stated he wanted to call the Masters through 2035, when Nantz will be 76, before saying recently he’d like to work that event even longer. Nantz is the one who coined one of the Masters’ signature phrases, “a tradition unlike any other.”