September 14, 200520 yr Just basically an update...ESPN. ESPN will start a series of Monday night baseball broadcasts and gain greater flexibility to move games to Sunday nights under a new eight-year contract. The deal announced Wednesday, which runs through 2013, allows the network to have a team be on its exclusive Sunday night games up to five times per season, up from 11 appearances over a three-season span under the $815 million, six-year contract that is expiring. ESPN's Monday and Wednesday telecasts will be mostly nonexclusive, meaning the games also can be televised by each club's local broadcaster. ESPN can televise up to 80 games per season under the deal, including an opening-day package. It also gets 10 spring training games a year and the All-Star Home Run Derby, the network's top-rated summer broadcast. In addition, ESPN will start a batting-practice show prior to its Monday night games. Under the current contract, ESPN televised a Wednesday doubleheader and the Sunday night games. It will no longer broadcast day games on Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Labor Day. ESPN also has one season remaining on its contract to televise games during the first round of the playoffs and the two-game-a-week deal it inherited when The Walt Disney Co., its parent company, purchased the Fox Family network. ESPN takes over NFL "Monday Night Football" games from sister network ABC starting in 2006.
September 15, 200520 yr What does this mean to me? Sound slike we get more Cubs-Sawx-Yanks on espn per the new deal. We get blacked out those Mon/Wed games so this is a non-factor unless you live in Iowa like you do
September 15, 200520 yr Maybe when they show the White Soxon ESPN at home, we'll have a packed house.
September 17, 200520 yr More chances to see the Sox lose on national TV. Sorry I had to, it was there for the taking.
September 19, 200520 yr from Tim Tucker's column at the AJC: http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/s...5/18sptbiz.html Negotiations continue with Fox on an extension of the network's regular-season and postseason deal; Fox's current six-year, $2.5 billion contract expires after next season and is sure to rise. MLB also is believed to be close to announcing a new deal with Turner Broadcasting, which pays a hefty fee to MLB for the right to broadcast Braves games nationally on TBS. And the new ESPN deal does not preclude baseball from making further deals with other cable networks, such as OLN, Selig said.
September 20, 200520 yr QUOTE(Kogs35 @ Sep 18, 2005 -> 08:47 PM) from Tim Tucker's column at the AJC: http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/s...5/18sptbiz.html that would make sense Im not a big fan of the Braves, but their broadcasts are pretty good. as in replays and camera shots and such. that BravesXtra thing when they show how many lead off steps a guy on first has and such is pretty neat and Im surprised ESPN or Fox hasnt used that
September 21, 200520 yr As long as the added Monday broadcast is non-exclusive it's fine with me. I hate it when Saturday Fox and Sunday ESPN exclusive rights deals kill everything elso on the Extra Innings package, only so I can get stuck with endless Yankees/Red Sox broadcasts.
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