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''ESPN Major League Soccer'' is a promotion of Major League Soccer on ESPN and ESPN2, with simulcasts on ESPNHD and ESPN2HD. Major League Soccer on ESPN2 debuted in 1996, the league's first season, and is guaranteed to stay on the network till at least 2022. From 1996 to 2006, the weekly soccer match on ESPN2 was called ''MLS Soccer Saturday'', but in the new contract, that was replaced by ''MLS Primetime Thursday''. For the 2009 season and beyond, the Thursday telecast was replaced by a variety of primtime games on Wednesdays through Saturdays. Beginning in 2009, as part of ESPN's far-reaching strategy of moving sports programming to ESPN, all matches - including MLS Cup - are now aired on either ESPN or ESPN2. ==History== On August 4, 2006, ESPN reached a comprehensive multimedia agreement with Soccer United Marketing (SUM) for the rights to Major League Soccer through 2014. As part of the eight-year agreement, ESPN2 will televise 26 regular-season and three playoff MLS matches each year, all in primetime on Thursdays. Highlights of the agreement include: *ESPN2 will televise 26 regular-season MLS matches, primarily on Thursday nights. *ESPN2 will televise three MLS playoff matches. *ABC will televise one regular-season MLS match, the MLS All-Star Game, and MLS Cup. (replaced by ESPN in 2009) *Televised coverage of the first round of the MLS Draft. *MLS telecasts can be re-aired in full or abbreviated versions on any ESPN media platforms *Extensive footage rights for all ESPN media platforms such as ''SportsCenter'', ESPNEWS, ESPN Motion, ESPN360, etc. *ESPN will also produce and be solely responsible for the content, whereas, they had not been able to do that in the past. Also in 2007, ESPN2's coverage of the MLS included new on-screen scoreboards, similar to those used on other sports telecasts. In 2008, another new score graphic was debuted, this time in the upper left hand corner of the screen. ESPN will join forces with Fox Sports and Univision to broadcast over 100 MLS games (combined), live and exclusive, from 2015 and 2022 in its new media rights deal. ESPN has been involved with the league since its inception in 1996. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ESPN Major League Soccer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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