User blog:Cbcarter34/MyTV lands Monday Night Baseball, loses WNBA to RDN

Today, MyTV announced that they have network cable rights to air Monday Night Baseball, sharing it with ESPN, which like MyTV, is owned and operated by Disney/ABC. ESPN agreed to relax their rule that they would be the only ones airing Monday Night Baseball, and MyTV will air a game on Monday nights beginning in June, with the schedule for those games being released before that time.

"I would like to thank (ESPN President) John Skipper for allowing MyTV the opportunity to air Monday Night Baseball. We know that there's going to be some tough competition, especially from ABN's Hot Summer Nights Concert series, but I feel that we can hold our own and do well against it. This is a new day. Not just for MyTV, but also for MyTV Sports Network. And we're looking forward to proving that MyTV is the place where the hits keep on coming," MyTV CEO Brain Frontz said.

MyTV's acqusition came at a price. Since MyTV is giving up their Monday nights for Monday Night Baseball, MyTV still has plans to have programming throughout the rest of the week, which meant that they would have to let go of the WNBA, which they aired a game during Summer 2017 on Friday nights. Instead, those rights went to RDN, which already airs a Sunday day/night game. Thanks to them getting WNBA rights from MyTV, RDN will be the exclusive network home for the WNBA, which is a major plus for RDN Sports, since they already have rights to the Southland Conference college football/men's basketball, the NBA G-League, and Major League Soccer.