ABC is prepared for some (extra) soccer.
The community is including extra video games to its schedule for the rest of the NFL season. ABC and ESPN will simulcast six extra video games — beginning with the Oct. 14 contest between the Buffalo Payments and New York Jets — together with 4 beforehand introduced contests (three simulcasts and, on Dec. 16, one unique to the printed community on an evening with two video games).
The newly introduced ABC/ESPN simulcasts may even air on Oct. 21 (Baltimore Ravens at Tampa Bay Buccaneers), Nov. 4 (Buccaneers at Kansas Metropolis Chiefs), Nov. 18 (Houston Texans at Dallas Cowboys), Nov. 25 (Ravens at Los Angeles Chargers) and Dec. 23 (New Orleans Saints at Inexperienced Bay Packers). ABC had already been set to air MNF video games on Oct. 28 and Dec. 9, together with two Saturday video games on Jan. 4, the ultimate weekend of the league’s common season.
The extra simulcasts took place after discussions between ABC, its Disney sibling ESPN (which produces the MNF telecast) and the NFL.
The beefed-up Monday Night Soccer slate additionally means ABC is making a couple of modifications to its schedule. On weeks the place it didn’t have MNF, the community was set to air Superstar Wheel of Fortune, Press Your Luck and What Would You Do? on Monday nights. The 2 recreation reveals are being pushed to midseason, the place they may have extra constant runs. What Would You Do? will transfer to 10 p.m. Wednesdays beginning Oct. 16, which in flip will bump docuseries Scamanda to a 2025 premiere.
