ABC was pathetic
 

Im glad they lost MNF! They spent the fourth quarter self-promoting, while the game was far from out of reach... yeah, i really gave a ***** who was 3rd production assistant during a play with 9 mintues to go in the game, instead of showing a replay....
No one really cares what network MNF is on, as long as we can watch it... maybe they should have provided good coverage instead of showing their old highlights.

Is there ANYTHING ABC or ESPN or CBS can do to please you people?

Agreed. I've never seen such an onanastic self-congratulatory tribute in my life. And you're right, the kicker is, outside of ABC, NO ONE F***ING CARES!

And they are going to be on ESPN anyway, so its not like they've even gone anywhere. Just pathetic.

Lots and lots, which is why we're grouchs. :p

Yes. Properly announce a football game by following the action on the field and updating me--the viewer--with relevant information.

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Random question that was bugging me while watching all those highlights:

So Disney owns ABC, and it also owns ESPN. What was the rationale for moving MNF to ESPN? Did ESPN out-bid ABC for monday night football broadcasting rights? I am going to assume that ESPN did this before Disney bought ESPN. If that is the case, after MNF moves to ESPN, will Disney end up losing or making money on the MNF franchise?


Can anyone explain this to me? Thanks.

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ABC was losing $$$ and decided to dump the program. The NFL shopped things around and ESPN felt they could make money with it having a captive audience vice a broadcast audience.

ABC believes it can get better ratings with network football on Sunday night when everyone is already watching football all day and they don't have to worry about the PST factor, i.e. people on the West Coast rushing home from work to watch MNF.

Then on Monday night, they will get better ratings on ESPN with the NFL than they were getting with ice skating, and that they will hopefully come up with good enough programming on ABC to achieve comparable ratings on Monday night as to what MNF was getting on ABC.

It actually makes quite a bit of sense and they should have done it years ago when the mystique of MNF had already well worn off.

ABC has Desperate Boobs on then, so NBC bought the Sunday night broadcast.

Duh. That's right. It's been a long weekend. So long its already Monday night.

Part of what I said still makes sense though. :)