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Is ESPN closer to naming a new stand on Monday evening? – @PDeSanChief
Kirk Herbstreit calling “Monday Night Football” takes a little more momentum, however, this is by no means an agreement reached. Here’s the news: it’s even if there is a college football season, sources say.
If college football is played this fall, Herbstreit would continue with Chris Fowler on ESPN’s No. 1 team. It doesn’t change, no matter what.
However, the NFL likes Herbstreit, sources say, and he could do a double duty and team up with new MNF favorite Steve Levy. It is very unlikely that Fowler will do both college and MNF studies.
Herbstreit is not done, because Brian Griese, Louis Riddick and Dan Orlovsky are still being studied to team up with Levy, if there is college football.
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Now, if college football is postponed until the fall and the NFL plays, then ESPN would likely move Fowler with Herbstreit and have them do MNF for a year.
So the situation is still fluid, but there seems to be some movement.
How do local basketball, baseball and hockey shows plan to cover the teams? Studio? On the site? – @dctsports
Take sport by sport and put an asterisk because many are subject to change.
For hoops, national broadcasters (ESPN and TNT) will send their play-by-players and analysts to the Disney bubble. We previously reported that Marv Albert, 79, will not be leaving. Local broadcasters will broadcast the games from studios in their respective cities.
For MLB, it is expected that broadcasters (radio and television) will call games from their playground or from a studio. This means that if the Yankees are at home, then Michael Kay and his company would be in the stadium, but if they were in Baltimore, they would call the game remote. The radio would be the same.
For the regular season, at present, national broadcasters also do not travel either, however, it is possible that ESPN could later in the year for “Sunday Night Baseball”. Unlikely, I would say, but possible for a few games.
The playoffs, depending on the situation in the country, could be different, because for the biggest event, I think the advertisers would be there.
For the “Field of Dreams” game that MLB is still for some strange reason, Fox should have its broadcasters in Iowa.
For hockey, the plans are not finalized, but I think right now, studio play-by-play is more likely. Certainly for RSNs, like MSG. Same thing with the radio.
I think NBC could possibly add broadcasters for certain rounds of the playoffs.
Do you think WFAN will start using some national CBS sports radio broadcasts to cut costs on weekends and maybe some nights? – @ tombook13
Opposite. WFAN executives know that what separates it historically from ESPN New York is that it is local all the time. You know what you are going to get. If sports return and games are played, the FAN will remain entirely local.
Now, if major sports don’t happen, it may change, but FAN officials know their spine is New York, so I think you’ll see more, not less.
MLB prohibition rules… is it possible that they will disappear in the near future? I protect the RSN but the territories are crazy. I think Iowa has like 8 teams claiming its territory. – @jackconboy
I doubt.
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