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''MLS Primetime Thursday'' was the weekly presentation of Major League Soccer games on ESPN2 for the 2007 and 2008 seasons. The program was presented by Adidas. ==History== ESPN and MLS had previously had a contract where ESPN2 televised live games, usually on Saturday afternoons. Under the arrangement, no rights fee was paid, and MLS controlled production, advertising, and promotion.〔https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/02/AR2007050202740.html〕 Time slots varied under the deal, secured by Soccer United Marketing's providing of rights to the FIFA World Cup.〔http://www.multichannel.com/article/124700-MLS_Sets_TV_Deals.php〕 For the 2007 season, an eight-year deal was signed with an $8 million rights fee. ESPN added several features in an attempt to improve presentation—high-definition broadcasts, a sky-cam for some matches, a virtual offside line, a ball tracer, a sideline reporter, and three commentators. For the inaugural season, 2006 FIFA World Cup announcers Dave O'Brien and Eric Wynalda served as play-by-play and analyst, respectively, with Allen Hopkins serving as the sideline reporter.〔http://paddocktalk.com/news/html/story-52446.html〕 Tommy Smyth was later added as a co-analyst.〔http://www.majorleaguesoccertalk.com/memo-to-espn-keep-tommy-smyth-on-the-mls-telecasts-1375〕 Glenn Davis and Rob Stone filled in for O'Brien on occasion.〔http://blog.chron.com/fanblogsoccer/2007/09/galaxys-ongoing-slide-in-la-superclasico/〕 For the 2008 season, JP Dellacamera and John Harkes replaced O'Brien and Wynalda as the lead team〔http://paddocktalk.com/news/html/story-80356.html〕 with Davis, Smyth, and Julie Foudy occasionally filling in. Following the 2008 season, ESPN discontinued the Thursday programming, citing lagging ratings〔http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2009/01/espn-dumps-mls-primetime-thursday/〕 and hoping to find better lead-in programming. It was replaced by the MLS Game of the Week, which rotated among a variety of nights and time slots.〔http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2009/01/espn-making-changes-to-mls-broadcasts.html〕 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「MLS Primetime Thursday」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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