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The transfer additionally implies that ABC has a sport all 18 weeks of the common season together with simulcasts of two playoff video games.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — ABC might be airing extra “Monday Night time Soccer” video games than initially deliberate.
An extra 10 video games initially set to look solely on ESPN might be simulcast on ABC. The extra video games might be on community tv due to the continuing strikes by the Writers Guild of America and the Display screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Tv and Radio Artists towards the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers, which represents Disney, Netflix, Amazon and others.
The strikes, which have been happening for months, have delayed many of the upcoming fall tv season.
When the NFL schedule was introduced in Might, ABC had 4 unique regular-season video games — together with Monday evening’s matchup between the Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers — and 5 being a part of an ESPN simulcast.
Final Monday’s sport between the New York Jets and Buffalo Payments averaged 22.6 million viewers on ESPN, ABC, ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes. New York’s 22-16 time beyond regulation victory was the most-watched Monday evening sport since ESPN took over the bundle in 2006.
The transfer additionally implies that ABC has a sport all 18 weeks of the common season together with simulcasts of two playoff video games.
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