Thursday Night Baseball

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Thursday Night Baseball
Genre	Sports
Starring	Chris Berman, Eric Karros or Joe Morgan, and Duke Castiglione
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	3 hours (approximate)
Broadcast
Original channel	ESPN or ESPN2 (2003-2006)
Chronology
Related shows	ESPN DayGame

Thursday Night Baseball was a promotion by Major League Baseball that aired on either ESPN or ESPN2 and simulcast on their respective H D networks, as it featured one game. It airs every Thursday at either 7 p.m. ET ,7:30 p.m. ET or 8:00 ET. The official name of the show was ESPN Thursday Night Baseball powered by Castrol. The play-by-play commentator was Chris Berman along with either Joe Morgan or Eric Karros as color commentator.

In 2006, Duke Castiglione joined the broadcast as the field reporter. Thursday Night Baseball will no longer air as of 2007 because the broadcast rights to the package were lost to TBS. TBS will show the games on Sunday afternoons that ESPN previously aired on Thursday nights. This is largely because the games were a byproduct of a deal FOX made to air games on its own cable channels, before opting to sell what is now ABC Family to Disney. The games were then moved to ESPN and ESPN2.

See also: The USA Thursday Game of the Week

See also: Major League Baseball_on_ABC#1989

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