Thursday Night Baseball
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| Thursday Night Baseball | |
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| Format | Sports |
| Starring | Chris Berman, Eric Karros or Joe Morgan, and Duke Castiglione |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Production | |
| Running time | 3 hours (approximate) |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ESPN or ESPN2 (2003-2006) |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | ESPN DayGame |
Thursday Night Baseball is a promotion by Major League Baseball that aired on either ESPN or ESPN2 and simulcast on their respective HD networks, as it featured one game. It airs every Thursday at either 7 p.m. ET, 7:30 p.m. ET or 8:00 ET. The official name of the show was ESPN Thursday Night Baseball powered by Castrol. The play-by-play commentator was Chris Berman along with either Joe Morgan or Eric Karros as color commentator. In 2006, Duke Castiglione joined the broadcast as the field reporter. Thursday Night Baseball was discontinued after the 2006 season because the broadcast rights to the package were lost to TBS. TBS will show the games on Sunday afternoons that ESPN previously aired on Thursday nights. This is largely because the games were a byproduct of a deal FOX made to air games on its own cable channels, before opting to sell what is now ABC Family to Disney. The games were then moved to ESPN and ESPN2. Thursday Night Baseball was replaced with MLS Primetime Thursday. [1]
[edit] Past history
- See also: The USA Thursday Game of the Week
- See also: Major League Baseball_on_ABC#1989
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[edit] References
- ^ Baseball Connects with Younger Viewers.. Multichannel News (July, 2001). Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
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