April 19, 2005

The Big Story

Monday night football is no longer going to be broadcast by ABC. You will only be able to watch this show on ESPN next season. Unless you live in the broadcast area of a team that is playing on Monday night - then you will find that one of your local stations is carrying the game (according to the linked article).

The conservative media whores are guessing that they're going to have better luck on Sunday night - which ESPN has been hosting for a number of years now. ESPN moves to Monday - and since they are a vassal of ABC anyways, they're taking MNF over and letting ABC focus on other things. And MS-GE-GOPNBC gets the 'new' plum of Sunday night. Plus, they're moving the times up - 8:15 on Sundays (from 8:30) and 8:40 on Mondays (from just after cough 9) [all times US Eastern Time Zone]. Hmmmm... so the Sunday Night games will start just after a late game that runs longer than expected (think overtime), and park the Monday Morning Quarterbacks on the couch for even longer on Football Day Sunday this year. And Monday Night Football will be farmed out to cable, where the falling audiences will still make it a big fish in a small pond.

Damn you, George Steinbrenner!*

* - We don't know why we started saying that. Maybe it was the first time the New Jersey Devils won the Stanley Cup and we found out that he was a part owner of that team. But we find it rolls off the tongue quite nicely. Try it and find out for yourself!

Posted by (: Tom :) at April 19, 2005 09:27 PM