D!sney testing multiple, simultaneous, Monday Night Football games

[Bob Jersey]

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)

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[Jim Ellwanger]

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).

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[PGage]

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.

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[John Edwards]

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. 

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[Kevin M.]

I say we test that theory out. 

Kevin M. (RPCV)

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