Re: [TV orNotTV] D!sney testing multiple, simultaneous, Monday Night Football games

2023-12-05 Thread Kevin M.
I say we test that theory out. Kevin M. (RPCV) On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 1:59 PM John Edwards wrote: > 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. > > On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at

Re: [TV orNotTV] D!sney testing multiple, simultaneous, Monday Night Football games

2023-12-05 Thread 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. On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 6:38 PM PGage wrote: > Why is this a good idea? Do they make more money from ads for 2 different > games on

Re: [TV orNotTV] D!sney testing multiple, simultaneous, Monday Night Football games

2023-12-04 Thread 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

Re: [TV orNotTV] D!sney testing multiple, simultaneous, Monday Night Football games

2023-12-04 Thread 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

[TV orNotTV] D!sney testing multiple, simultaneous, Monday Night Football games

2023-12-04 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
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