Sports broadcaster ESPN will not air the playing of national anthem ahead of Monday night NFL games.
The national anthem was also not aired during the 16-week plus preseason schedule of last season’s Monday Night Football television
programme and the network said there would no change in its policy this
year after being asked how it would handle the recent controversy over
players taking a knee during the anthem in peaceful protest to police violence.
The company’s president Jimmy
Pitaro told journalists: “We generally have not broadcasted the anthem
and I don't think there’s going to be any change this year. Our plan
going into this year is to not broadcast the anthem”.
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