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NBC gets sunday night football 6yrs, ESPN gets MNF 8 years
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yeah man, ABC is horrible with the NBADMczaf said:
lachesis
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Yes. ABC lost the right for the Monday Night Football.
Now it will be produced at ESPN. After Superbowl XL, abc won't be doing any more of MNF.
for 35+ years, MNF used to be ABC's flagship sports premier, and losing it will be a big shock (even to me, although I mostly work with news division, but I do work with MNF all the time) - but I hear that NFL is charging enormous amount each year, and it's been said that MNF, while staying top place for monday nights, have been in red for past few years.
I just feel sorry for the people (especially PA's) who would lose their jobs because of that...
Losing MNF would liquidate abc sports nearly in half or so. ESPN has their own crew who dealt with SNF before, so I guess it would be really hard for former ABC sports people could join them. Also, a lot of the productions will be done at ESPN for ABC sports, so... it could mean liquidation of a entire division.
After Lost, Desperate Housewives and Extreme Makeover HE, I thought my company was on re-bound - and this happens.
So border, yes, it's a terrible news for me.
lachesis
Now it will be produced at ESPN. After Superbowl XL, abc won't be doing any more of MNF.
for 35+ years, MNF used to be ABC's flagship sports premier, and losing it will be a big shock (even to me, although I mostly work with news division, but I do work with MNF all the time) - but I hear that NFL is charging enormous amount each year, and it's been said that MNF, while staying top place for monday nights, have been in red for past few years.
I just feel sorry for the people (especially PA's) who would lose their jobs because of that...
Losing MNF would liquidate abc sports nearly in half or so. ESPN has their own crew who dealt with SNF before, so I guess it would be really hard for former ABC sports people could join them. Also, a lot of the productions will be done at ESPN for ABC sports, so... it could mean liquidation of a entire division.After Lost, Desperate Housewives and Extreme Makeover HE, I thought my company was on re-bound - and this happens.
So border, yes, it's a terrible news for me.
lachesis
border said:
Ratings drop... a HUGE ratings drop for ABC. Something you need to realize is that ABC is network television... ESPN is not (cable). Basically... they are going to be excluding a huge audience with this move. It's sad, too. I'm a bit nostalgic about it as well... but ABC just lost one of their 2 top 10 neilson ratings getters.
Ninja Scooter
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but ABC owns ESPN, so how did they let the NFL slip away from them completely and go to NBC?
jobber
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Doesn't Disney own both ABC and ESPN?
Couldn't they just show it on ABC instead?
I ask cause technically, ESPN has the NBA broadcast rights, but ESPN and NBA agreed to show some games and the Finals on ABC. If you look at the end of games, it says this game was brought to you by ESPN -_-
atleast Hannah Storm will be back!
edit: WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO MY DATELINE SUNDAY!?!??!?!?
Couldn't they just show it on ABC instead?
I ask cause technically, ESPN has the NBA broadcast rights, but ESPN and NBA agreed to show some games and the Finals on ABC. If you look at the end of games, it says this game was brought to you by ESPN -_-
atleast Hannah Storm will be back!
edit: WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO MY DATELINE SUNDAY!?!??!?!?
Jesus Carbomb
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All I've ever asked of my television is for some Late Night and NFL/MNF. Thats it. Now someone done went and fucked it all up.
So now you watch network primetime football on Sunday instead of Monday. From the viewer's perspective it's really not that different. I guess it might suck for people that actually like the current Sunday network lineup (though SNF has always competed with that anyhow).
I view the news as pretty much a neutral thing. The only way it would be good news is if Madden got shitcanned.
Hard to say whether or not ABC should have let it go, though. Even if it was running in the red it was an opportunity to plug plenty of other stuff on the network.....as hokey as it sounds when I have to listen to Al Michaels pretend to be excited about all the wacky things happening on this week's episode of the Jim Belushi Show.
I view the news as pretty much a neutral thing. The only way it would be good news is if Madden got shitcanned.
Hard to say whether or not ABC should have let it go, though. Even if it was running in the red it was an opportunity to plug plenty of other stuff on the network.....as hokey as it sounds when I have to listen to Al Michaels pretend to be excited about all the wacky things happening on this week's episode of the Jim Belushi Show.
lachesis
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The talk started early last year, IIRC. Even inside the company, it was just a rumor and not everyone was convinced that ABC would let go such big franchise... till now.element said:
Anyhow, yes. Before Disney bought ABC, ESPN used to be owned by ABC. Now, since Disney owns both channels (not too sure about how exactly contract went through), so I'm not too sure whether ESPN could be considered our subsidary. While we work closely with ESPN and share a lot of resources too - but it is a separate company with separate crews and all.
ninja scooter said:
$$$, and being MNF in red for years due to license... really. MNF has been consistant rating raker for ABC for past 3 decades, but expenses were too high. The production value for each game is beyond belief. Good for revenues, but bad for booking, I guess...
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I remember this being discussed earlier. The main reason advanced was so that a network could pick a game to show closer to kickoff rather than having the schedule set months before the season. This became necessary because of parity and the fact that moribund teams starting winning all of a sudden with no warning. ABC was getting some shit matchups late in the season that nobody wanted to watch.
I'm all for a little change. I love the NFL, but watching MNF was getting harder to do because of the extreme amount of commercials. It was really ridiculous. You have to just turn it on in the background and do something else.
I'm all for a little change. I love the NFL, but watching MNF was getting harder to do because of the extreme amount of commercials. It was really ridiculous. You have to just turn it on in the background and do something else.
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I was also under the impression (i.e. I heard it on some sports radio station) that ABC was losing money hand over fist with MNF and it was becoming too much of a "prestige" show, like the evening news.
lachesis
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I was just talking to someone on sports, and just found out that we also lost some of the college football stuff too. This year will be our last Bowl Championship Series (so much for finding out the who's sponsoring Rosebowl this year fiasco!).
Whoa. It seems like we are really going out with a bang. Last season for MNF, BCS with no NFL coverage AT ALL.
Good going guys... I just feel sorry for my colleagues who would lose their jobs...
(very somber atmosphere here today.)
lachesis
Whoa. It seems like we are really going out with a bang. Last season for MNF, BCS with no NFL coverage AT ALL.
Good going guys... I just feel sorry for my colleagues who would lose their jobs...
(very somber atmosphere here today.)
lachesis
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golem said:
Maybe that's the reasoning. HBO makes a killing becuase everybody has to have it. Like a billion dollars. Cable prices keep going up and we keep getting fucked. ESPN can raise their prices and we end up paying $100+ for decent cable. And it sounds like Desperate Housewives Monday's to me.
CrawfishPete
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those bastards at EA!
Ninja Scooter
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skinnyrattler said:
HBO also doesn't get ad revenue from commercials. I don't know if ESPN will want to throw away valuable NFL commercial time.
Lucky Forward
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Slo said:
Me.
border said:
Yep.
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