Tag: Monday Night Football

ESPN is obviously testing something, and it’s worth poking around at why the network wouldn’t follow the schedule it has used for the last 16 years, scheduling kickoffs at 7 and then 10 on their primary channel.

Most notably, the debut of Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime Video saw more viewers than the Monday Night Football audiences.

“I really, really enjoy the radio because it’s a clean canvas. People aren’t watching at home. They can’t create their own idea of what’s going on, so that is all in our hands when we are doing the radio."

ESPN and ABC will employ a "NFL RedZone look-and-feel" at times, with a scoreboard for the differing game listed on screen at all times, as well as live look-ins during each game.

"There were moments in the negotiation that I thought it was going to happen. I honestly did," he said. "Me and my wife were just about to go to Los Angeles and start looking at homes and schools."

They picked up right where they left off. It almost seemed like the two were more relaxed under the scrutiny of their big money deals.

ESPN reported that 19,845,000 viewers tuned in for the season debut across ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPN+ and ESPN Deportes.

"I'm telling ya, if I'm just football fan as I was while I was getting dinner ready and saw that exact thing we just heard, it did. It felt so different," show co-host George Dunham added. "It felt so big. This game means something."

“I would have thought that his voice is so distinctive and his energy is so distinctive that nobody would have much of an issue with his enthusiasm with what it is that we were watching.”

The ManningCast will have the alternate feed on ESPN2 and will welcome Saquon Barkley, Joel McHale and Shannon Sharpe.