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Guaranteed Contracts
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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Best part of the football season? More TMQ.
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By Gregg Easterbrook
Special to Page 2
Man, let's hope you enjoyed that first-of-a-kind Monday Night Football doubleheader on ESPN. Airing those games cost ESPN only $129 million. And that's just for the rights fees. Cameras, techies and announcers are extra: ESPN had about 150 production personnel at each game. Typically, prime-time network programming costs a couple million dollars an hour. This year, ESPN is paying $1.1 billion for the Monday Night Football package, which works out to $65 million per contest and about $20 million per hour. Ten times the normal cost of prime-time programming. Sure hope you liked those games!
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Question: Is anyone in this country going to actually be able to watch both games? The first game was well into the second half when I got home (admittedly I had a class to go to that didn't get out until 7:15) and I had to go to bed well before the end of the second game (admittedly I had a 5:30 class to go to this morning).
Hell, the first game started well before the end of business on the West Coast. Seems sort of weird that the monday night game isn't going to be watched by the whole country.
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