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ABC will air an additional 10 'Monday Night Football' games because of writers and actors strikes

The main driver for games on ABC for weeks 2 and 3 is to get into the Super Bowl rotation. The NFL only allows OTA networks to show the Super Bowl, so putting standalone games on ABC lets ESPN get into the rotation and broadcast a Super Bowl on ABC.
 
TheBigA said:
They can "get" them, but they have to pay for them. That's what they're trying to avoid.

I have an easy solution: go to the sports bar!
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It's probably not important enough to bother going to a sports bar. The Thursday games will be on Free local TV (if the local team is playing). If Jacksonville is playing Houston on an Amazon game, a geezer in Chicago probably doesn't care enough to bother going out.

The NFL is reaching the point of over saturation. Sunday Night, Monday Night, Thursday Night and the games in Europe (Those air at 930am Eastern Time). Add Thanksgiving and the late season Saturday games, the average viewer may not care about watching every game...
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
They are probably offering three feeds: Early game, late game, and a mix where you get the entirety of game 1 and the last part of game 2, plus a look-in to game 2 at halftime of game 1.

It is very likely that no one will take over a 2nd radio station for two MNF games.
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Where I live(near Tacoma in Washington State, so we get the Seattle market's radio stations), KJR 93.3 FM carried the Saints/Panthers game to it's conclusion, then picked up the second half of the Steelers/Browns game.

Meanwhile, the Steelers/Browns game started on KJR 950 AM and was simulcast on KJR 93.3 and 950 AM as well once Saints/Panthers finished...

Not sure what they would have done if UW Men's Basketball or the Sounders or the Kraken had been playing also(as all of those teams are carried on KJR FM and AM as well).
 
TheBigA said:
They can "get" them, but they have to pay for them. That's what they're trying to avoid.

I have an easy solution: go to the sports bar!
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Yeah, but if you go to the sports bar, then you have to pay for the food and/or the drink in order to stay there, right?
 
Marcos_C said:
I don't go to sports bars anyway. If I were eager to watch Thursday Night Football week after week, then it would be cheaper for me to simply subscribe to Prime Video.
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It streams freely on Twitch.tv and has been quietly doing so since Amazon got the Thursday Night Football package.
 
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