{"id":438063,"date":"2023-06-18T07:06:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T11:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438063"},"modified":"2023-06-18T07:07:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T11:07:06","slug":"peter-drury-becomes-sky-sports-leading-voice-in-place-of-martin-tyler","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/peter-drury-becomes-sky-sports-leading-voice-in-place-of-martin-tyler\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Drury becomes Sky Sports leading voice replacing Martin Tyler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Drury has been appointed as Martin Tyler&#8217;s replacement as the voice of Sky Sports, after the emblematic figure announced his departure on Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Experienced commentator Peter Drury will officially join Sky Sports to cover Premier League football from the 2023\/24 season! \ud83d\udea8\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ABFr59sBol\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ABFr59sBol<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsPL\/status\/1670379353996156928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 55-year-old is currently the voice of the Premier League on US broadcaster NBC Sport, but that will change as he is set to take a higher step in the hierarchy.<\/p>\n<p>Drury began his broadcasting career in 1990 in a local radio in Leeds. He is highly popular among viewers and many had seen him as natural successor to Tyler.<\/p>\n<p>Sky Sports will soon make the announcement official as Drury is expected to take charge of one game a week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone at Sky Sports would like to say a heartfelt thank you to Martin for his unparalleled contribution and dedication to our coverage over the last 30 years. \u201cThe Voice\u201d will always be synonymous with the Premier League and Sky Sports.\u201d Gary Hughes, Sky Sports\u2019 director of football said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Drury has been appointed as Martin Tyler&#8217;s replacement as the voice of Sky Sports, after the emblematic figure announced his departure on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":438078,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[19918,19956],"acf":{"announce":"The legendary commentator announced his exit on Saturday after 33 years at Sky Sports","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438063"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438063"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}