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No more ABC Monday Night Football ...

Discussion in 'Carolina Panthers' started by HAVEPSL, Apr 18, 2005.

  1. HAVEPSL

    HAVEPSL Full Access Member

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    ... it's on ESPN

    Monday Night Football moving to ESPN in '06

    NFL.com wire reports

    NEW YORK (April 18, 2005) -- The NFL's Monday Night Football, a staple on ABC for the past 35 seasons, will move to ESPN starting with the 2006 season.

    And NBC is returning to the NFL after six years away by taking the Sunday night broadcast previously on ESPN.

    The Monday night move from network TV to basic cable, hinted at continually by commissioner Paul Tagliabue, was confirmed by two sources familiar with the deals who spoke to The Associated Press under condition of anonymity. The sources said the deals is for eight years.

    NBC will get the Sunday night package for six years, according to the sources. The network will also get the Super Bowl in 2009 and 2012 as part of the deal, one of the sources said.

    The moves leave ABC -- which originated Monday Night Football in 1970 -- as the only major network without NFL football.

    ABC and ESPN are both subsidiaries of the Walt Disney Co. The deal with ESPN, which currently carries games every Sunday night and sometimes on Thursday, was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

    Last month, Tagliabue said during the NFL meetings in Hawaii that the Monday night move was a strong possibility. ABC, which has been losing money on the package despite high ratings, had been balking at the NFL's asking price.

    CBS and Fox already have agreed to pay a total of $8 billion over six years for the Sunday AFC and NFC rights.

    That has become more pressing since parity caused by the salary cap has resulted in teams moving up and down the standings annually, leaving bad teams that were strong the previous season in prime time and good teams that were bad the past season off of it.

    The NFL is still considering separate packages for Thursday and late-season Saturday nights.
     
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    OOPS....starting in 2006.
     
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    I wonder if there are as many homes with cable access as w/o. Meaning will numbers drop as a result of this?
     
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    What will Hank Jr. do?
     
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    Does this mean we have to listen to Joe Theisman and the drunk man on Monday night football now?

    :thud: :banginghe
     
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    well its not like its really switching networks. Disney owns both and I'm sure it's pretty easy to bring the MNF crew over if they wanted to.
     
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    kshead What's the spread?

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    The NFL will probably do a deal where the local stations can pick up the game like they do on Sunday nights now.
     
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    So what network would that be?
     
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    I wonder how much ESPN had to pay to take it away from ABC.
     
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    kshead What's the spread?

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    If the Skins are on Sunday night the DC ABC station picks it up here. WJLA 7. I believe it's the ABC or CBS station in Baltimore that picks up the Ravens.

    So I'm not sure if it's ABC everywhere, but someone local to you will carry it. People would go apeshit if it was only on cable.
     

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