The
Sports Weekly NFL Draft Guide '05 will give football fans all they need to
know about this year's top prospects.

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kickoff) -- plus four pre-season contests.
Eisner, Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company.

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Monday Night Football will conclude a 36-year
run on ABC this December.com/MediaZone/NFL

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Featured in this 48-page special issue:
* Number 1 Roulette: Without any true top choice in this draft, there
are still 11 players at the top who could produce a handsome payoff. Debuting in 1970, Monday Night Football has
been a landmark series in the history of American television."
ESPN first televised Sunday primetime NFL games in 1987, covering
the second half of the regular season (eight games annually 1987 - 89,
nine games 1990 - 1997), and has carried a full slate of 18 games
since 1998.espn.

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, A special edition of USA TODAY
Sports Weekly devoted to the 2005 NFL draft guide hits newsstands today. Plus, a review
of each team's three-year draft strategy.----Monday Night
Football, the most successful series in sports television history,
will move to ESPN under an eight-year agreement between ESPN and the
National Football League, it was announced today by George
Bodenheimer, president of ESPN and ABC Sports, and NFL Commissioner
Paul Tagliabue. In 2004 ESPN enjoyed another outstanding NFL season:

Sunday Night Football averaged a 7.

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"This agreement clearly underscores The Walt Disney Company's
leadership in the sports entertainment industry," said Michael D.

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* Team Profiles: Profiles of all 32 teams with analysis of each team's
needs and draft strategy as well as possible selections. (NYSE: GCI)."
Robert A.

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ESPN's NFL game coverage has won the Sports Emmy as television's
best live sports series two of the last four years (for the 2000 and
2003 seasons), and is nominated again for the 2004 season.

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The new agreement calls for 17 regular-season Monday night games
per season on ESPN -- featuring a new 8:30 p.m.

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There is no off -season for either sport in Sports Weekly
- readers will find complete baseball and professional football coverage in
all 52 issues throughout the year. "Sports
television's pre-eminent series - Monday Night Football - moves to the
industry's pre-eminent brand, ESPN.

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ESPN Acquires Monday Night Football

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ESPN's Emmy Award winning Sunday NFL Countdown pre-game show will
return.

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tell you who they are.

* How They Were Built: We look at how the NFL's two dominant teams of
recent years -- the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles --
have used the draft to build the nucleus of their teams.

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MCLEAN, Va. Under the
agreement, we will continue to see ESPN deliver strong profits and
contribute to the growth of The Walt Disney Company. Monday Night Countdown will be the centerpiece of a
companywide effort to make Monday Night Football a "traveling road
show" in each city it visits.

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Monday Night Countdown, an ESPN pre-game show chronicling
Sunday's action and previewing the Monday night game, will also
return, and will be aired live from the site of each Monday night game
beginning in 2006. We will bring all of our company's leading sports assets to
bear in extending the Monday Night Football brand.

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The agreement begins with the 2006 season.

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publishes special editions throughout the year covering special events in
baseball and professional football ., Inc.

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USA TODAY Sports Weekly Publishes Special Edition NFL Draft Guide '05

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ESPN will televise Sunday Night Football , the highest-rated series
on ad-supported cable television every year since its 1987 launch,
during the 2005 season.

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* Player Capsules: Capsules on our Top 100 players as well as
information on the Top 500 players by position.3 rating, and 6,538,000
homes, making it ad-supported cable's highest-rated series for
the 18th consecutive year (every year since its 1987 debut)

Eight of ad-supported cable's biggest 10 audiences in 2004
were ESPN NFL games

Sunday NFL Countdown was seen by more people than any season
in nine years

Monday Night Countdown enjoyed its most-viewed season

NFL PrimeTime remained cable television 's most-watched sports
studio show

The NFL Draft was seen by seen by a record 31,402 ,000 people.

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USA TODAY Sports Weekly is published by
Gannett Co. It also includes
rights across a wide variety of ESPN television and other assets,
including the highly rated NFL PrimeTime program; the NFL Draft, which
ESPN has covered since 1980; NFL Live; ESPN HD; ESPN Deportes; NFL
Films programming; fantasy, ESPN Mobile, video game and data feed
platforms, and more.

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* Mock Draft: Sports Weekly's own mock draft gives a view how our
reporters think the draft could go. NFL PrimeTime, the ultimate NFL highlights show, debuted
in 1987.

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Said Bodenheimer: "We are thrilled to have the excitement and
energy of Monday Night Football on ESPN and I am confident that we
will continue the excellence that has been the hallmark of ABC's
coverage for the last 35 years .

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The Sports Weekly NFL Draft Guide '05 will be on sale at newsstands
through the April 23-24 draft at a cover price of $4.

USA TODAY Sports Weekly covers baseball and professional football with
detailed analysis and in-depth cover stories on the players and issues that
shape the two sports. ET telecast time (8:40
p. The tremendous success ESPN has had
with Sunday Night Football will be enhanced with the Monday night
tradition.

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Iger, The Walt Disney Company's President and Chief
Operating Officer, said, "Securing an American television institution
well into the future will strengthen our core sports asset.

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