Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Posted
6:25 AM
by Gene
``We don't think of it as a simple three-hour window rating to a three-hour window rating comparison,'' Skipper said. He said that ESPN's research has shown that 90% of the people who watch ``MNF'' now will be able to watch it next year on ESPN ''without any changes to their television set.''...
Skipper bristled at NBC's efforts to make the Sunday night game -- which now is the third of three windows on Sunday that start at 1 p.m. ET -- the premier game of the week.
``The last time I checked, we're still on the Roman calendar,'' Skipper said of Monday night, evidently unaware that the calendar went out of use more than 2,000 years ago.The last time I checked, Skipper, you still overpaid for Monday Night Football -- whatever the calendar.
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