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Beginning in the 1970 NFL season, the National Football League began scheduling a weekly regular season game on Monday night before a national television audience. From 1970 to 2005, the ABC television network carried these games, with the ESPN cable television network taking over beginning in September 2006 until 2019, since 2020 ESPN and ABC have both been broadcasting these games either ...
Since the 2020 season, select Monday Night Football games have been simulcast on ABC. Since the 2021 season, ABC has simulcast the Week 18 Saturday doubleheader with ESPN. Beginning with the 2022 NFL season, ABC exclusively airs select Monday Night Football games. Key
In 2018, ESPN brought back the classic "Heavy Action" theme as the main theme song for Monday Night Football. In 2020, ESPN replaced Hank Williams Jr.'s MNF theme with a cover of Little Richard's "Rip It Up" by Virginia-based band Butcher Brown for the 2020 and 2021 seasons. For the 2021–22 season, the theme sometimes played in reverse.
The 2020 NFL season was the 101st season of the National Football League (NFL). The regular season started with the NFL Kickoff Game on September 10, in which defending Super Bowl LIV champion Kansas City defeated Houston. The playoffs were expanded from 12 to 14 teams, adding a third wild card spot per conference.
National television broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games first aired on ABC from 1948 to 1951. Between 1970 and 2005, Monday Night Football aired exclusively on ABC. In 2006, ESPN took over as the exclusive rights holder to Monday Night Football, and the ABC Sports division was merged into ESPN Inc. by parent company Disney.
NFL on television in the 2020s. From 2014 to 2022, CBS, NBC, and Fox, as well as cable television's ESPN, paid a combined total of US$20.4 billion [1] will pay $39.6 billion for exactly the same broadcast rights. [2] The NFL thus holds broadcast contracts with four companies ( Paramount Global, Comcast, Fox Corporation and The Walt Disney ...
The 2021 season was the Buffalo Bills ' 52nd in the National Football League (NFL), seventh full under the ownership of Terry and Kim Pegula, and their fifth under the head coach / general manager tandem of Sean McDermott and Brandon Beane . Although unable to match their 13–3 record from the previous season, the Bills clinched the AFC East ...
ESPN Monday Night Football (abbreviated as MNF and also known as ESPN Monday Night Football on ABC for simulcasts and NFL on ESPN for non-Monday telecasts) is an American live television broadcast of weekly National Football League (NFL) games airing on ESPN, ABC (select games), ESPN2 ("Manningcast" alternate broadcast) and ESPN+ in the United States.