MLS Soccer Saturday is a weekly presentation of Major League Soccer

Major League Soccer

Major League Soccer is a professional soccer league based in the United States and sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation . The league is composed of 19 teams — 16 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada...

 games that aired on ESPN

ESPN

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 from 1996 to 2006. MLS Soccer Saturday was the first weekly presentation of MLS games, which usually started at 4PM EST

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. The program is sponsored by Radioshack

RadioShack

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. Before the start of the 2007 season, the league and ESPN announced that MLS Primetime Thursday

MLS Primetime Thursday

MLS Primetime Thursday is a weekly presentation of Major League Soccer games on ESPN2 that began in 2007. The program is presented by Adidas. ESPN and MLS had previously had a contract where ESPN2 televised live games at 4PM on Saturdays. Play-by-play was usually handled by JP Dellacamera, with...

would be the flagship broadcast as part of a new television contract, ending an 11-year broadcast run of matches on Saturday afternoons.

See also

• MLS Primetime Thursday
  MLS Primetime Thursday
  MLS Primetime Thursday is a weekly presentation of Major League Soccer games on ESPN2 that began in 2007. The program is presented by Adidas. ESPN and MLS had previously had a contract where ESPN2 televised live games at 4PM on Saturdays. Play-by-play was usually handled by JP Dellacamera, with...
  
  
• MLS Game of the Week
  MLS Game of the Week
  MLS Game of the Week is a weekly presentation of Major League Soccer on ESPN and ESPN2 that began in 2009.-2011 season EST:*Tuesday March 15- Seattle Sounders FC @ Los Angeles Galaxy 9:30 p.m.*...
  
  
• MLS Saturday
  MLS Saturday
  Soccer Night in America was a weekly presentation of Major League Soccer games on FOX Soccer that began in 2003. In 2007, MLS Saturday started showing a 30 minute pregame and a 30 minute postgame show for each game...