Super Bowl 2020 is an annual event. This game will decide the winner of the NFL 2019 season.
This year Shakira and Jennifer Lopez will headline the half-time show. So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the event!
- Super Bowl LIV is the 54th Super Bowl
- And the 50th modern-era National Football League (NFL) championship game
- The game will decide the champion for the NFL’s 2019 and 100th season
- The National Football Conference (NFC) champion San Francisco 49ers will play against the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Kansas City Chiefs
- The game is scheduled to be played on February 2, 2020
- The game will take place at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida
- This will be the 11th Super Bowl hosted by the South Florida region
- And the sixth Super Bowl hosted in Miami Gardens
- Miami Gardens hosted Super Bowl XLIV ten years earlier
- The game will be broadcast in the United States by Fox
- And the halftime show will be co-headlined by Jennifer Lopez and Shakira
- Super Bowl LIV will be televised by Fox
- Per the three-year rotation between Fox, NBC, and CBS, the NFL’s three network broadcast partners
- Along with Fox Deportes in Spanish
- Similarly to its Thursday Night Football broadcasts, Fox plans to produce its Super Bowl LIV broadcast in 1080p high definition with Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG) high-dynamic-range (HDR) color
- Upconverted to a 4K ultra high definition feed available through participating pay TV providers and streaming devices
- Fox constructed a broadcast plaza in South Beach along Ocean Drive
- Which is originating FS1’s studio programs during the week leading up to the game
- And will serve as the main location for its pre-game show
- The plaza also features public activities such as the “Fox VIP Screening Room”, an exhibit promoting the upcoming Fox series Lego Masters
- And a 70 ft (21 m) Masked Singer-themed ferris wheel
- Fox charged between “north of” $5 million and $5.6 million for 30 seconds of commercial time during Super Bowl LIV
- On November 22, 2019, Fox announced that it had sold its entire in-game advertising inventory
- As part of NFL initiatives to adjust and optimize commercial load during games, Fox will air four breaks per quarter rather than five
- But each break will be 30 seconds longer
- Fox’s executive vice president of sports sales Seth Winter said these changes had increased the early demand for commercial time during the game
- It was reported that two candidates in the 2020 presidential election had bought spots during the game
- Including the re-election campaign of Donald Trump, and Democratic candidate Michael Bloomberg
- The game falls on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, the first major contest of the 2020 Democratic primaries
- It was reported that due to concerns from other advertisers, only Fox network promos will air alongside the political ads during their respective breaks
- Expected to be early in the game and at halftime respectively
- In contrast to its largest collection of Super Bowl ad buys in 2019, perennial sponsor Anheuser-Busch purchased only four 60-second spots
- Fewer than previous years
- On May 13, 2019, Fox announced that its lead-out program will be the season 3 premiere of The Masked Singer
- In Canada, Super Bowl LIV will be televised by CTV
- In December 2019, considering an appeal of a prior decision at the request of Bell Media, the Supreme Court of Canada overturned a ruling that had allowed the CRTC to restrict use of the simultaneous substitution (simsub) regulations for the Super Bowl in order to allow access to the U.S. commercials
- Which they had deemed, by public response, to be an integral part of the telecast
- The court held that the CRTC’s exception in policy overstepped its power under the Broadcasting Act
- Citing that it does not allow the CRTC to “impose terms and conditions on the distribution of programming services generally”
- In Brazil, Super Bowl LIV will be televised by ESPN Brasil and exhibited in the movie theatres chains Cinemark, UCI and Kinoplex
- In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the game will broadcast on the free-to-air channel BBC One
- And paid-subscription channels Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Mix
- Demi Lovato will perform “The Star-Spangled Banner”
- On September 26, 2019, it was announced that Jennifer Lopez and Shakira will be the featured acts in the halftime show
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