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Major League Soccer on ESPN debuted in 1996, the league's first season, and ended in 2022 when MLS and ESPN did not renew their broadcast contract. From 1996 to 2006, the weekly soccer match on ESPN2 was called MLS Soccer Saturday, but in the new contract, that was replaced by MLS Primetime Thursday. For the 2009 season and beyond, the Thursday ...
The whip-around show is called MLS 360 and will cut into matches of significance. [8] All matches involving CF Montréal, Toronto FC, and Vancouver Whitecaps FC had French-language commentary in 2023. Montréal will continue as the sole French-language broadcast for Apple in 2024. [7]
Major League Soccer with ESPN and ABC Sports announced the league's first television rights deal on March 15, 1994, without any players, coaches, or teams in place. The three-year agreement covered English-language broadcasting for the 1996–1998 seasons, and committed 10 matches on ESPN, 25 on ESPN2, and the MLS Cup on ABC.
ABC also air four playoff matches including the MLS Cup 2021. [3] The MLS Cup has also been aired on Spanish-language networks TeleFutura in 2007 and 2008, [4] [5] Galavision from 2009 to 2011, [6] [7] TeleFutura/UniMás from 2012 to 2018, and Univision in 2019. ABC previously had Spanish announcers under secondary audio program.
Gus Johnson/Joel Klatt/Jenny Taft (Fox Big Noon Saturday) Joe Davis or Aaron Goldsmith/Brock Huard/Bruce Feldman (Fox/FS1) Tim Brando/Spencer Tillman (Fox/FS1) Aaron Goldsmith or Cory Provus or Chris Myers/Mark Helfrich (Fox/FS1) Cory Provus or Dan Hellie or Jeff Levering/Robert Smith (Fox/FS1) Alex Faust or Dan Hellie or Eric Collins/Petros ...
Other play-by-play announcers were: Derek Rae, Daniel Mann, Adrian Healey, and Fernando Palomo. Other color commentators: Taylor Twellman, Craig Burley, Efan Ekoku, Roberto Martínez, Kasey Keller, and Alejandro Moreno. All commentators were in Brazil with the top 5 teams at the stadiums while the remaining team called matches off monitors in Rio.
1995 marked the only year of postseason coverage provided by "The Baseball Network", which was a revenue sharing joint venture between Major League Baseball, ABC and NBC. "The Baseball Network" was also scheduled to cover the Division Series in 1994 , but plans were scrapped when a strike caused the postseason to be canceled.
NBC [43] [44] would then pick up where ABC left off by televising six more regular season Friday night [45] [46] games. Every Baseball Night in America game was scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. Eastern Time (or 8 p.m. Pacific Time if the game occurred on the West Coast [47]). A single starting time gave the networks the opportunity to broadcast one ...