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ESPN gonna fukk this up somehow
ESPN Could Spend As Much As $2 Billion To Buy The NFL Network, NFL RedZone, & NFL
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To help clarify the game exchange situation…will go into effect Sep 2026.
ESPN will discontinue its overlapping Monday Night Football doubleheaders as part of its acquisition of NFL Network, ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro told Richard Deitsch of The Athletic in a piece published Thursday.
While NFL Network will continue to carry its current seven-game schedule, four of those will come from ESPN’s existing game inventory — three ABC-exclusive windows that overlapped with games on ESPN in makeshift doubleheaders, plus the annual ESPN+ exclusive game. The NFL will license three additional game windows to ESPN to fill out that seven-game slate.
Pitaro characterized the change as creating three new exclusive windows for MNF. “We’re getting out of this side-by-side business and moving those three games over. So you’re going from 22 clean windows to now 28 clean windows for NFL games across ESPN networks.”
ESPN will still have one doubleheader per year, the Week 18 Saturday doubleheader that airs in traditional consecutive windows. The network will also still have need for a “B” team — currently Chris Fowler, Dan Orlovsky and Louis Riddikk — as it will be producing the seven NFL Network windows.
ESPN will discontinue its overlapping Monday Night Football doubleheaders as part of its acquisition of NFL Network, ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro told Richard Deitsch of The Athletic in a piece published Thursday.
While NFL Network will continue to carry its current seven-game schedule, four of those will come from ESPN’s existing game inventory — three ABC-exclusive windows that overlapped with games on ESPN in makeshift doubleheaders, plus the annual ESPN+ exclusive game. The NFL will license three additional game windows to ESPN to fill out that seven-game slate.
Pitaro characterized the change as creating three new exclusive windows for MNF. “We’re getting out of this side-by-side business and moving those three games over. So you’re going from 22 clean windows to now 28 clean windows for NFL games across ESPN networks.”
ESPN will still have one doubleheader per year, the Week 18 Saturday doubleheader that airs in traditional consecutive windows. The network will also still have need for a “B” team — currently Chris Fowler, Dan Orlovsky and Louis Riddikk — as it will be producing the seven NFL Network windows.
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I think they'll still have their pre-game show but hopefully some of their people replace the on-air appearances of ESPN people like Rex Ryan, Bruschi, and Woody
It’s a value exchange, really.“& NFL”
How they gonna buy the whole nfl for 2 billion when the teams worth 10-20 billion each
The $2+ Billion is what the NFL is paying for a 10% stake of ESPN.
In return, ESPN gets the NFL media assets (NFL Network, RedZone intellectual property, NFL’s Fantasy database, etc.)
