News: ESPN Prepared To Pay An Insane Amount To Buy Sunday Night Football Rights Away From NBC

[WoodysGirl]

ESPN Prepared To Pay An Insane Amount To Buy Sunday Night Football Rights Away From NBC

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According to Andrew Marchand of the New York Post, ESPN and Disney are prepared to shell out at least $1 billion to secure the rights to the NFL’s weekly Sunday night game. The network would likely place that game on ABC. The rights are currently held by NBC, which will compete to keep them.

It has been known for a long time that Disney/ABC/ESPN would be very aggressive for more NFL, the most valuable programming in television. As far back as early 2019, there was buzz about ABC wanting a Super Bowl.

However, according to sources, it is more than that as the pitch Disney is making to the NFL is that it currently pays the most so it deserves the best prime-time regular-season schedule.

On top of that, according to officials familiar with the negotiations, Disney/ABC/ESPN wants to acquire two separate NFL packages.”

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[TheMarathonContinues]

Oh no please no. I was hoping NBC could steal Monday Night football from them. Let ESPN have Thursday Night Football or something no one cares about.

 

[GORICO]

ESPN Prepared To Pay An Insane Amount To Buy Sunday Night Football Rights Away From NBC

Read ESPN Prepared To Pay An Insane Amount To Buy Sunday Night Football Rights Away From NBC and other NFL articles from Total Pro Sports.

According to Andrew Marchand of the New York Post, ESPN and Disney are prepared to shell out at least $1 billion to secure the rights to the NFL’s weekly Sunday night game. The network would likely place that game on ABC. The rights are currently held by NBC, which will compete to keep them.

It has been known for a long time that Disney/ABC/ESPN would be very aggressive for more NFL, the most valuable programming in television. As far back as early 2019, there was buzz about ABC wanting a Super Bowl.

However, according to sources, it is more than that as the pitch Disney is making to the NFL is that it currently pays the most so it deserves the best prime-time regular-season schedule.

On top of that, according to officials familiar with the negotiations, Disney/ABC/ESPN wants to acquire two separate NFL packages.”

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woody-- i heard it cost NBC 750 million for original rights...what was that back in 2010?....seems about right?

 

[atlantacowboy]

That article was from 2015.

 

[nightrain]

That article was from 2015.

They're still working on a proposal?

 

[big dog cowboy]

That article was from 2015.

By Darrelle Lincoln
Writer for Total Pro Sports Since August 31, 2015

Are you confused? The article is dated today.

 

[Direwolf63]

That article was from 2015.

Nope.

Article was from today. The writer has been writing for the company since 2015

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

Oh no please no. I was hoping NBC could steal Monday Night football from them. Let ESPN have Thursday Night Football or something no one cares about.

Agreed! I want MORE NBC! Not less! SNF's music on NBC is the best, and I like the combo! Please don't take that away ESPN!

 

[tico]

I hope not the Sunday night cast is top 2 for sure.
I'm watching the TB vs Gnuts game and they are making my eyes droopy

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Agreed! I want MORE NBC! Not less! SNF's music on NBC is the best, and I like the combo! Please don't take that away ESPN!

I agree. I'm cool with Collinsworth and Al Michaels.

 

[J12B]

I agree. I'm cool with Collinsworth and Al Michaels.

Al Michaels is a legend.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

I agree. I'm cool with Collinsworth and Al Michaels.

Yup! Al Michaels is always great to listen to. Now, if we could get Romo to pair with Michaels, that'd be even better!!!!!!

 

[WoodysGirl]

That article was from 2015.

No... the author has been working for the site since 2015. The article was published today.

 

[Romo_To_Dez]

Ugh, I don't want to see this happen. ESPN's MNF announcing team is bad and I think that the production and quality of the SNF broadcast will go down if it's switches to ESPN.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

Ugh, I don't want to see this happen. ESPN's MNF announcing team is bad and I think that the production and quality of the SNF broadcast will go down if it's switches to ESPN.

Exactly! Leave SNF to NBC! They have the best product. If anything, give NBC MNF as well.

 

[Hawkeye0202]

Who said NFL value was tanking ???? Pretty sure I heard it here.....a few times (lol)

 

[DandyDon52]

Ugh, I don't want to see this happen. ESPN's MNF announcing team is bad and I think that the production and quality of the SNF broadcast will go down if it's switches to ESPN.

Well it would be on ABC , not espn if they got it.
Disney has billions to play with, they might buy al and chris from SNF, as what would they do otherwise for nbc?
As long as it is on abc and they keep al and chris, I am cool with it.
I dont think they would be stupid enough to change announcers and format, but they might be that stupid.
It could be just a change in channels.

If Disney were smart, they would have put mnf on abc years ago and have more viewers, get better games, and make more money.
having it on espn is just ********. I did not know they owned espn.
So they might be dumb enough to screw it all up lol. Buy a good product and downgrade it lol.

 

[DandyDon52]

Who said NFL value was tanking ???? Pretty sure I heard it here.....a few times (lol)

Nfl games are the only big rated shows left on free tv, abc,nbc, cbs, fox. They make most of their money off nfl games, which have way higher
ratings than any of their other tv shows.
So to those networks nfl games are gold. That is the main reason we have a nfl season right now, they need those games on tv.

 

[JayFord]

I dont like either one

put it on TNT or back on ABC and then were talking

 

[Vanilla2]

A bidding war will help guarantee your opinion matters less