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Sports cable giant ESPN agreed to terms with the NFL on a deal that will keep the popular football series Monday Night Football on the network through 2021.
As part of the deal, which was for a yet undisclosed amount, ESPN will air 17 Monday Night Football games a season through 2021 and an additional 500 hours of new NFL-branded studio programming, beginning immediately.
The cable network has excelled with the groundbreaking franchise, with eight of the top 10 programs in cable history (excluding breaking news) being NFL games on ESPN.
"Today, we've secured cable's most valuable television franchise, along with an enhanced international package of year-round multimedia rights," said ESPN/ABC Sports president George Bodenheimer. "It will help grow our business well into the next decade. No one has the breadth of worldwide media assets or the ability to monetize a property the way ESPN can, particularly with Monday Night Football and our complete NFL coverage."
ESPN was also able to get the NFL to agree to extra highlights on all platforms, coverage of the Pro Bowl and NFL draft, the ability to show Monday Night Football and NFL studio programming on the WatchESPN app, and rights for ESPN Deportes and international networks, including regular season, playoff games and the Super Bowl in 144 countries.
The NFL also has the option to carry a wild-card playoff game on ESPN.
NFL Live, the network's only year-long show dedicated to a single league, will extend to one hour each day starting at 4 PM ET. ESPN will also air an extra hour of Sunday NFL Countdown and a new daily show "NFL 32," which kicks off on Tuesday, Sept. 13 on ESPN2
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