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| The New York Giants and the Detroit Lions will open the 2014 ESPN Monday Night Football season on September 8th which will also be seen locally in New York on ABC. (WABC-TV) |
WABC-TV, the ABC Television Network's owned-and-operated and flagship station will carry the New York Giants vs. Detroit Lions Monday Night Football opener game at 7:00pm ET this Monday, it is the first time the station would air an NFL game since ABC's last National Football League telecast in Super Bowl XL back in 2006 and the first Monday Night Football game on WABC-TV since the network's last MNF telecast in 2005. ESPN announcers Mike Tirico, Jon Gruden and Lisa Salters will have the call from Detroit This game will also be seen in Detroit on ABC affiliate and former ABC O&O WXYZ.
However it will a be simulcast of its sister network ESPN (both ABC and ESPN are owned by The Walt Disney Company). Its unknown yet WABC-TV will carry three more Monday Night Football games later this season, another Giants game on Monday night is schedule on November 3rd and plus two New York Jets games on both September 22nd and December 1st (all that is if Dancing with the Stars, which returns September 15th on ABC is concern, Monday night games could be seen on either Fox-owned WWOR-TV or The CW affiliate WPIX).
The broadcast on ESPN will be followed by Arizona Cardinals vs. San Diego Chargers from the site of Super Bowl XLIX in Glendale, Arizona at approx 10:15pm ET on ESPN2 if the first game of the Monday Night Football doubleheader on ESPN does not end on time with Chris Berman, Trent Dilfer and Lindsay Czarniak on the call. The simulcast on WABC-TV will followed ABC's World News Tonight with David Muir and Eyewitness News will air locally following Giants-Lions.
