ESPN has signed a multi-year deal with Horizon League for coverage of basketball across ESPN Networks. The Horizon League headquartered in Indianapolis is an NCAA Division I athletics conference that sponsors 19 intercollegiate championships.
This deal allows ESPN to present Horizon League men’s basketball events through 2013. The deal gives ESPN distribution rights for Horizon League programming across multiple ESPN platforms that include:
- ESPN Deportes
- ESPN HD
- ESPN Pay-Per-View
- ESPN Video-on-Demand
- ESPN2 HD
- ESPN360.com
- ESPNU.com
ESPN’s three year deal will allow the sports network to deliver men’s basketball regular-season games and selected rounds of the men’s and women’s basketball championships Horizon League events. The coverage includes:
Coverage of seven regular-season basketball games as well as the men’s basketball championship semifinals and the women’s basketball championship game each year of the contract on ESPNU.
- A minimum of four regular-season men’s basketball appearances annually on ESPN or ESPN2, plus the men’s basketball championship game during Championship Week.
- Annual coverage of seven men’s basketball games exclusive to ESPN360.com, ESPN’s live broadband sports network, as well as simulcasts of additional ESPN Full Court games.
- Continued participation by all 10 Horizon League teams in ESPN’s annual BracketBusters event.
Burke Magnus, ESPN senior vice president, college sports programming, said “We are excited to extend our exclusive agreement with the Horizon League and to add more coverage to our schedule. With this agreement, college sports fans will continue to see the quality and depth of the Horizon League in more ways than ever before.”
Horizon League Commissioner Jonathan B. LeCrone, said “We are extremely pleased to extend our agreement with ESPN, which has been a long-time partner with the Horizon League. This extension recognizes the growth of our League and also takes advantage of new and emerging technologies while taking into account the fluid distribution-marketplace of today’s media world.”
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