Monday, January 17, 2011

NFL, ESPN Reportedly Set to Extend 'Monday Night Football' Contract

by Milton Kent

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Looks like Hank Williams, Jr. will be inviting his rowdy friends over for Monday Night Football well into the next decade.

Sports Business Daily reports that ESPN and the NFL are close to an extension of the deal that brings the Monday night package to the cable behemoth for either nine or ten years past the current end of the contract that is scheduled to run out in 2014.

Disney, ESPN's corporate parent, is reportedly prepared to pay between $1.8 and $1.9 billion per year for a package that would not only include the telecast, but broadband and mobile rights. ESPN is already paying $1.1 billion per year for Monday Night rights, which is more than double what the other four carriers, CBS, FOX and NBC, are paying.

 

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Source: http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2011/01/06/nfl-espn-reportedly-set-to-extend-monday-night-football-contr/

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