My guess is that's what they're trying to figure out. The NFL is such a behemoth now that they could put their games on Tuesday at 3 a.m. and people would watch.
On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 6:38 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > Why is this a good idea? Do they make more money from ads for 2 different > games on ABC and ESPN than they do from showing one game on both? > > When MNF started a lot of the appeal was one game for the whole country to > watch, after the free for all of Sunday. It’s been a while since the Monday > game was the week’s highlight, but still the game football fans (and > players) watch. This just extends the Sunday simulcasts to Monday, and is > another step towards evenly having football games on every night (save > Friday and Saturday until mid December). I hate this. > > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > > On Mon, 4 Dec 2023 at 2:34 PM Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So people don't have to click through: they've done staggered start times >> in the past, but this is apparently the first time they've had the game on >> ABC and the game on ESPN kick off at the same time (and the first time >> Peyton and Eli have watched both games on the ESPN2 broadcast). >> >> Yes, the Fox and CBS rules experts handle multiple games on Sunday >> afternoons (and all the various networks' rules experts are on multiple >> college games on Saturday). >> >> >> On Dec 4, 2023, at 1:55 PM, 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> One week from tonight (Dec 11th). @Buck, Aikman and Salters will be at >> Packers-Giants on ABC, while ESPN puts Fowler, Riddick, Orlovsky and >> Rutledge on Titans-Dolphins... rules expert John Parry will have to serve >> both games (something other nets may or may not have done Sundays?), and >> even more staggeringly, Peyton and Eli will as well... >> >> https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/disney-tests-monday-night-football-simulcast-espn-abc-1235820816/ >> (link) >> B >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/f8fbc039-0a0d-44ea-b053-13dcad695e09n%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/f8fbc039-0a0d-44ea-b053-13dcad695e09n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/B9DB7665-2C4C-4B99-B9EC-EE7CF4B26125%40ellwanger.tv >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/B9DB7665-2C4C-4B99-B9EC-EE7CF4B26125%40ellwanger.tv?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2BsjiU%3DtkdEkzoOZ6-eYEJXnt%3Dkmo0SoCoO_0WqKOH-pQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2BsjiU%3DtkdEkzoOZ6-eYEJXnt%3Dkmo0SoCoO_0WqKOH-pQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- John Edwards "You can insure against the weather, but you can't insure against incompetence, can you?" - Phil Tufnell -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJLXtMJ%3DyEzTpnxeQoxQ1WaKt5UiwTJKhOh4VJ0nBFqVPJ9Rqg%40mail.gmail.com.
