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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.
In 1976, ABC picked up the television rights [89] for Monday Night Baseball [90] games from NBC. For most of its time on ABC, the Monday night games were held on "dead travel days" when few games were scheduled. The team owners liked that arrangement as the national telecasts didn't compete against their stadium box offices.
The network first aired Saturday Major League Baseball Game of the Week games between 1953 and 1955, in 1960, and in 1965. ABC then televised MLB games from 1976 to 1989, airing Monday Night Baseball, Thursday Night Baseball, and Sunday Afternoon Baseball in various years during that period.
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 ...
By 1986, ABC only televised 13 Monday Night Baseball games. This was a fairly sharp contrast to the 18 games that were scheduled in 1978. The Sporting News believed that ABC paid Major League Baseball to not make them televise the regular season. TSN added that the network only wanted the sport for October anyway.
That 7-3 conquest of the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 6 of the 2009 World Series was the last Fall Classic game contested in the Bronx, a dry spell that will be broken Monday night.
Major League Baseball games first aired on NBC from 1947 to 1989, including The NBC Game of the Week, when CBS acquired the broadcast television rights. [17] Games returned to NBC in 1994 as part of The Baseball Network, a time-brokered package of broadcasts produced by Major League Baseball and split with ABC.
Temperatures are expected to be around 53 degrees during Monday night’s game, per Weather.com. There will only be 3 mph of wind, so with the partially closed nature of SoFi Stadium, the weather ...