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Monday Night Baseball was born on October 19, 1966, when NBC signed a three-year contract to televise the game. Under the deal, NBC paid roughly $6 million per year for the 25 Games of the Week, $6.1 million for the 1967 World Series and 1967 All-Star Game, and $6.5 million for the 1968 World Series and 1968 All-Star Game.
Brian Kenny (born October 18, 1963) is a studio host for MLB Network and a boxing play-by-play announcer for Fox Sports and DAZN.The television face of Sabermetrics and baseball analytics, he is the host of the weekday program MLB Now, known as “the show for the thinking fan". [2]
He was an anchor at SportsCenter, the host of ESPN's Baseball Tonight, and the last host of the sports interview show Up Close before it was canceled in 2001. Miller also occasionally did play-by-play of Major League Baseball games, and was the primary dugout reporter on Monday Night baseball broadcasts, as well as ESPN DayGame.
Eduardo Pérez- analyst (2007–2011), (2014–present) Baseball Tonight, analyst (2016-2017) Sunday Night Baseball, Monday night Baseball and occasionally Wednesday night Baseball 2018–present; Kyle Peterson - Analyst (2020–present) select games; Karl Ravech- host and play-by-play (1995–present) Baseball Tonight and Monday Night Baseball.
During the 1986 season, Don Drysdale did play-by-play ABC's Sunday afternoon games, [148] which aired until July, when Monday Night Baseball began. ABC's Monday night schedule in 1986, then started on July 7 and ran through August 25. Al Michaels did both the main Sunday and Monday game usually with Jim Palmer, while Drysdale and Johnny Bench ...
1.1 1953-1954 Saturday afternoon Game of the Week period. ... 3 1976-1989 Monday/Thursday Night Baseball period. ... List of current Major League Baseball announcers;
It also broadcast any Astros games that were part of ABC's broadcast contract with Major League Baseball from 1976 to 1989. On December 12, 2014, WLS-TV signed a new five-year broadcast agreement with the Chicago Cubs , in which WLS would televise 25 of the Major League Baseball team's games per year, starting with the 2015 season .
NBC's broadcast of Game 7 of the 1986 World Series (which went up against a Monday Night Football game between the Washington Redskins and New York Giants on ABC) garnered a Nielsen rating of 38.9 and a 55 share, making it the highest-rated single World Series game to date. Game 7 had been scheduled for Sunday, but a rain-out forced the game to ...