ABC will air a further 10 ‘Monday Night time Soccer’ video games due to writers and actors strikes

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The transfer additionally signifies that ABC has a recreation all 18 weeks of the common season together with simulcasts of two playoff video games.

A parking attendant views a rainbow outside Met Life stadium.
A parking attendant views a rainbow outdoors Met Life stadium earlier than an NFL soccer recreation between the New York Jets and the Buffalo Payments, Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, in East Rutherford, N.J. AP Photograph/Seth Wenig

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — ABC shall be airing extra “Monday Night time Soccer” video games than initially deliberate.

An extra 10 video games initially set to seem solely on ESPN shall be simulcast on ABC. The extra video games shall be on community tv due to the continued strikes by the Writers Guild of America and the Display screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Tv and Radio Artists in opposition to the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers, which represents Disney, Netflix, Amazon and others.

The strikes, which have been happening for months, have delayed many of the upcoming fall tv season.

When the NFL schedule was introduced in Might, ABC had 4 unique regular-season video games — together with Monday evening’s matchup between the Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers — and 5 being a part of an ESPN simulcast.

Final Monday’s recreation between the New York Jets and Buffalo Payments averaged 22.6 million viewers on ESPN, ABC, ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes. New York’s 22-16 extra time victory was the most-watched Monday evening recreation since ESPN took over the bundle in 2006.

The transfer additionally signifies that ABC has a recreation all 18 weeks of the common season together with simulcasts of two playoff video games.