small audience, means small ratings, not everyone has cable tv.
Thur nite is on free tv, bigger audience. same for Sun nite games.
That is why espn gets mostly crap games, even if they had romo and michaels, it would not get the
ratings network tv gets with thur and sun nite games.
18% of American homes are not connected to cable or satellite and even more have no internet.
ESPN is locked into the rates they can charge versus what the Nets can charge and they're expenses are almost as high. They're betting name announcers can get better games and more viewers and I think they're wrong.
MNF was a great idea, once upon a time, but that time has passed. When it was at it's peak, there were 3 games on Sunday and maybe 6 or 7 college games on Saturday, that wasn't enough for me to get my fix. MNF wasn't a football game, it was an event. The first years my wife and I picked a team and built the menu around the indigenous food of that area. Meredith and Cosell were bigger than the actual games and Tuesday morning water cooler talk usually included something that had taken place between them.
Now, there's TNF as well as college games and then comes Saturday. The football from 8a-12m is unmatched and if you get the sports package from DirecTV, you get the ACC, Big 10, Pac 12 and SEC networks and it's my choice what 3 games to watch at the same time all day long, I am not fed the games like the NFL does or forced to pay some ridiculous price for the Ticket. Tell ya, I thought I needed the Ticket until I went without it, I don't miss it at all.