8 February 2006 (Wednesday)
- American Football – ESPN announces that they have hired Mike Tirico, Joe Theismann, and PTI's Tony Kornheiser to be the new announcers of Monday Night Football, which will air on the cable sports network starting next season. The move means that Al Michaels, who has been with ABC for almost 30 years, is now free to join John Madden on NBC's Sunday night NFL broadcasts. In exchange for Michaels, NBC gave ABC/ESPN expanded Olympic highlights, coverage of the Friday Ryder Cup matches starting in 2008, and gave Disney the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a character created by Walt Disney and owned by Universal.
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