Monday Night Football

5 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 27, 2026 by David Rosenthal · said 30 times in 7 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Ben Gilbert (17), David Rosenthal (13)

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Jan 27, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
ABC Acquired Exclusive Rights to Monday Night Football for $8.5 Million Per Season
“ABC gets exclusive rights to Monday Night Football for a new deal, new product, 8.5 million dollars per season.”
David Rosenthal Jan 27, 2026 ▶ 2:15:14 The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
Jan 27, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Gilbert: Monday Night Football and NFL Films invented weekly sports highlight reels
“Between Sunday and Monday, the NFL films team would go and take all of the footage from the game the previous day, cut up a highlight reel, And as soon as possible, get that to whatever city the Monday Night Football broadcast was happening in, so that they co…”
Ben Gilbert Jan 27, 2026 ▶ 2:22:11 The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
Jan 27, 2026 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Rosenthal: The First Monday Night Football Broadcast Drew 60 Million U.S. Households
“The first Monday Night Football game that airs that season is watched by sixty million U.S. Households.”
David Rosenthal Jan 27, 2026 ▶ 2:16:33 The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
Jan 27, 2026
Insight
Gilbert: Media Buyers Should Pay for Minimum Content Reaching Maximum Aggregate Audience
“What you want to be paying for is the smallest amount of content possible that gets distributed to the widest audience possible. So you actually should be willing to pay up to twenty million as long as the aggregate number of viewers that you get on that day i…”
Ben Gilbert Jan 27, 2026 ▶ 2:15:54 The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
Aug 10, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Gilbert: ESPN's Monday Night Football package cost hit $2.7B annually in 2021
“So in 2006, just look at the Monday Night Football package that ESPN buys. O six, it was a 1.1 billion. 20 11, it was at 1.9 billion a year. And by 2021, it went up to 2.7 billion dollars a year now.”
Ben Gilbert Aug 10, 2026 ▶ 3:32:51 Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
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