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ESPN Looks to Trump MLB Network

December 30, 2008 | by Keith | Categories Television | Comments Off

It looks like ESPN is attempting to take some of the thunder away from MLB Network, which is set to launch Thursday.  From ESPN PR:

ESPN Classic will feature a classic Major League Baseball game every Monday night (generally at 8 p.m. ET) starting January 5 and continuing to the start of the 2009 regular season. The series, which will celebrate the 20th season of MLB on ESPN, begins with the re-airing of ESPN’s first-ever MLB telecast – Baltimore at Kansas City (April 9, 1990). In addition to the weekly Monday telecasts, ESPN Classic will present nightly classic MLB games at 8 p.m. the week of March 30 leading up to Opening Night on ESPN (Sunday, April 5).

With MLB Network surely to air classic games, is it a coincidence that the WWL looks to do the same?  Also, some of the games listed on the ESPN schedule are ones not originally broadcast by the network.  Wouldn’t you think that MLB would have control over those re-broadcasts for their own channel?  ESPN must be working under an old agreement with the league.

Smart move ESPN.  A little tawdry.  But smart nonetheless.


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