ESPN grabs UK Monday Night Football rights 30/03/2010 |
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ESPN has won the exclusive UK rights to broadcast NFL Monday Night Football games from next season.
The channel will show live coverage of all American Football's Monday night matches from September 14, with coverage repeated the following day.
EMEA vice-president of TV channels at ESPN Jeroen Oerlemans said: "Monday Night Football is an enormous global sports franchise with an incredibly strong heritage, and it regularly features the very best NFL matchup of the week.
"With the NFL's continued growth in the UK, this is another example of how we are building quality global programming around our core UK sports schedule."
NFL vice-president of media strategy and development Hans Schroeder added: "We are pleased to expand our partnership with ESPN in serving our fans in the UK who are passionate about the NFL. ESPN will continue to do an outstanding job of bringing our fans closer to our sport in new ways."
ESPN has exclusively aired Monday Night Football in the US since 2006.
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