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Monday Night Football is the branding used for broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games that primarily air on Monday nights. It originally ran on ABC from 1970 to 2005, before moving exclusively to sister network ESPN in 2006. While ESPN remains the primary channel for the games, MNF returned to ABC for select simulcasts with ESPN in 2020, and two years later, it began featuring select exclusive ABC telecasts. In addition, ESPN2 has featured alternate telecasts of selected games since 2020 as the Manningcast, while ESPN+ has streamed MNF simulcasts in the United States since 2021. During its initial run on ABC, MNF became one of the longest-running U.S. television series, as well as one of the highest-rated, particularly among male viewers. Since 1993, it has been preceded by the ESPN pregame show Monday Night Countdown. Per an NFL broadcasting policy intended to allow those who do not subscribe to cable or satellite television to see local games televised by a pay television network, the ESPN-exclusive games are also made available on an over-the-air station in each participating team's local market. MNF is broadcast in Canada on TSN and RDS, in most of Australia on ESPN Australia, in Portugal on Eleven Sports, on TV 2 Sport in Denmark, on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom, and in some other regions of the world outside the U.S. on ESPN International. A Spanish-language version airs on ESPN Deportes in the U.S. and on ESPN International in Latin America, while a Portuguese version airs on ESPN Brasil.