Al Michaels, the longtime voice of "Monday Night Football" and other events for ABC, moved to NBC to become the play-by-play announcer for "Sunday Night Football". Michaels was originally slated to continue calling "Monday Night Football" for ESPN, but a trade was worked out between NBC and The Walt Disney Company, the parent company of ABC and ESPN. In the trade, Michaels was able to join NBC in exchange for Disney acquiring from NBC's corporate sibling Universal Pictures, among other things, the rights to the cartoon character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, which was created at Universal by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks before the founding of Disney's studio (and then given to Walter Lantz, whose most famous creation would be Woody Woodpecker).