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ESPN Deportes Upfront Presentation: “ESPN Deportes Reloaded”

ESPN’s Spanish-language multimedia brand, ESPN Deportes during its Upfront ‘08 presentation held on Wednesday evening at Manhattan’s Gotham Hall revealed its multimedia platforms, old and new programming initiatives and innovative multiplatform programming across its television, radio, online, print and wireless properties. This is ESPN Deportes first-ever televised upfront presented and attended by star-studded guests and […]

ESPN Euro 2008 Schedule Announced

European Championships are broadcast live in the United States on ESPN and the network has announced the plans of Euro 2008 telecast. Few games are to be broadcasted on ESPN and ESPN Classic and many games are to be beamed on ESPN2 and ESPNDeportes. ABC will bring the Final and a random quarterfinal game.
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St. Petersburg Bowl approved by NCAA

St. Petersburg Bowl formed by ESPN Regional Television, which is owned and maintained by ESPN will be officially part of college football’s bowl lineup. NCCA has approved The St. Petersburg Bowl on Wednesday in South Florida. ESPN already has five other postseason college football bowls like the New Mexico Bowl, the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces […]

ESPN plans for expansive live coverage of 2008 Masters Golf Tournament

ESPN covers first two rounds of 2008 Masters Golf Tournament (commonly known as The Masters or The US Masters) played at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta. ESPN has huge plans to present the event as this will be the first year for ESPN to bring Live Coverage. ESPN with its family networks like ESPN […]

ESPNews HD Launches Today with a New Look

As announced earlier, ESPNews has launched its high-definition channel today at 8.00 AM ET with the networks first hour simulcast on ESPN HD and later on ESPN 2 HD and ESPN. Comcast, DirecTV and Time Warner Cable have signed carriage agreement with the channel to carry the new HD channel, but not to carry during […]

ESPN to celebrate 30 years of broadcasting next year

ESPN will celebrate its 30th anniversary of its broadcasting by launching “30/30″ and its planning to utilze the expertise of Walt Disney’s to mark the anniversary. ESPN has hired many film makers to film documentaries to cover sports of thirty years on various topics. As many as 30 directors, which include Davis Guggenheim, Linklater […]

ESPN and XM jointly launch ESPN Xtra

ESPN Xtra would be launched by ESPN and XM jointly from 4th of February; new channel will carry programming ESPNEWS and also would carry debates from ESPN Radio’s owned station in Dallas and New York. Senior vice president for production of ESPN Traug Keller stated that they are exited to extend their relationship with XM […]