On-air Talent

Brad Nessler was named the voice of NFL Network's Thursday Night Football in May 2011, joining game analyst Mike Mayock as the new booth team for NFL Network's sixth season of eight live, regular season game telecasts.

Nessler and Mayock will open the 2011 season of Thursday Night Football November 10 with the Oakland Raiders vs. San Diego Chargers.

A veteran play-by-play voice at both the amateur and professional level, Nessler will continue in his role calling college football and basketball games for ESPN and ABC. Most recently, Nessler was a part of ESPN's Monday Night Football doubleheader that opened the 2010 season, calling the second game of the night featuring the San Diego Chargers vs. Kansas City Chiefs. He has also served as the voice of ABC's telecast of the Capitol One Bowl for the past two years.

From 1992 to 1997, Nessler called college basketball games and Big Ten and Thursday night football contests for ESPN. In 1997, he began calling college football contests for ABC, including the Bowl Championship Series title game, as well as college basketball.

Nessler is also the play-by-play voice of EA Sports NCAA Football and college basketball March Madness video games.

Nessler began his career as a sports anchor and talk show host for WGST-Radio in Atlanta in 1980. In 1985, he became sports director at WSB-Radio, also in Atlanta. While at the Atlanta stations, he handled radio play-by-play of Georgia Tech basketball (1980-85) and the Atlanta Falcons (1982-88) before assuming the same duty for the Minnesota Vikings on WCCO (1988-89). He has done play-by-play of ACC football and basketball for Raycom/Jefferson Pilot telecasts, and did WLAF games for USA Network (1991-92). Nessler also has served as play-by-play announcer for Miami Dolphins preseason telecasts.

Nessler joined CBS in 1990 and worked on college football and men's and women's basketball, including the NCAA Division I Women's Championship game, and NFL games. He also was the network's host for speed skating coverage at the 1992 Olympic Winter Games in Albertville, France.

Since 1992, Nessler has returned each year to his hometown of St. Charles, Minn., to host The Nessler Memorial, a charity golf tournament named after his late father, Bob. All proceeds from the annual event go toward cancer research.

Nessler is a graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato.