Madden, Summerall Near Deal With Fox : Television: CBS’ top NFL broadcasting crew is expected to stay together at different network.

John Madden and Pat Summerall will sign with the Fox network as its lead NFL announcers, sources said Friday. An announcement is expected next week, possibly Monday.

“I haven’t seen anything or signed anything,” Madden said Friday from Dallas, where he will work Sunday’s NFC championship game between the Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers for CBS.

Said Summerall: “I’m just waiting to see what develops.”

He declined further comment.

But sources said agreements have been reached and an announcement is forthcoming. Madden will make $7.5-million per year and Summerall in the $2-million range.

The same sources said it is likely that Fox will also hire Bob Stenner and Sandy Grossman, the producer and director on the Madden-Summerall team at CBS the last 13 years.

Madden and Stenner have the same agent, Barry Frank, and Summerall and Grossman are represented by Bob Rosen.

A source said Summerall was trying to work out a deal in which he could continue to do golf for CBS and football for Fox. Neal Pilson, CBS Sports president, and Rick Gentile, the executive in charge of production, earlier said that if Summerall signs with Fox, he will not work for CBS. And that reportedly will be the case.

Apparently, the original plan was to make the Summerall-Madden announcement after the Super Bowl, but things have speeded up.

According to another source, former Atlanta Falcon coach Jerry Glanville, although he has approached Jacksonville Jaguar officials about being their coach, is in line to become the studio analyst on Fox’s planned one-hour pregame show. CBS’ Pat O’Brien is a leading candidate to be the host.

Two weeks ago it was reported that it was “all but a done deal” that Madden was going to ABC’s “Monday Night Football.” The reports said Madden had agreed to a $2.5-million-a-year salary from ABC after spurning a $4.5-million offer from Fox.

On Thursday, another report said NBC had made an offer greater than Fox’s, one that included having Madden serve as a worldwide spokesman for General Electric.

Fox came back one more time, offering what USA Today reported as a four-year contract worth $30 million, an average of $7.5-million per year. A source close to Madden said it took that kind of offer to get him.

“One day I’m going to ABC, the next I’m going to NBC and going to be a worldwide spokesman for GE, and now I’m supposed to be going to Fox,” Madden said. “I can’t keep track.”

Betsy Hoffman, speaking for Fox, said the network had no comment.

Fox wrested the rights to the NFL’s NFC package from CBS in December by agreeing to pay $1.58 billion over four years. That was $400 million more than the CBS bid.

Fox will begin televising the NFL next season, with CBS out of the picture. CBS has been televising the NFL since 1956, and Summerall and Madden have been the network’s lead announcing team since 1981. Their final game for CBS will be Sunday’s NFC championship game.