Spydey629
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Yes and it wasn't even the The All-Star game that has been on cable and will be this year. ABC in the late 90s early 2000s carried 1-2 regular season games and MLS Cup until it stopped in the mid 2000s. After that MLS had no regular OTA presence for over a decade. In 2016 that changed when FOX ran two games concurrent with NFL late Sunday window. FOX has been airing about 4-5 games a yr since then and MLS Cup in odd years ABC doesn't have it. This year is the first year in its 25 yr history MLS will have double digit (12) OTA regular season broadcast (7) FOX (5) ABC.
Actually, I was referring to the NHL, circa late 80s, early 90s. Part of the reason it lags behind the other Big 4 leagues is because it pretty much disappeared from regular TV for a good half-decade, before the cable proliferation of the 90s.