ESPN

ESPN Inc ( Entertainment Sport Programming Network Incorporated ) is a television network on the sport. The company is American but many subsidiary companies cover the whole world. The chains of the group became references as regards sport which one could compare with CNN (with the fact of its glory) for the current events.

The group is currently a subsidiary company with 80% of the Walt Disney Company and is associated with the network of ABC. Chain ESPN alone is looked by 88 million the American home.

History

Since its launching the September 7th 1979 by William and Scott Rasmussen, ESPN was always classified like the first Télévision Sport ive with the the United States.

The revolution of the media sport

In the Years 1980, it revolutionizes the industry of the sport, while being the first media to occupy uninterrupted the ground of the sporting retransmissions “24/7”. It also systematized the sporting tv news on its antennas, following the example SportCenter, considered as true a " mass médiatique" in the United States, looked by 88 million the American home.

ESPN began like an alternative from the sections from sporting information from the tv news and paper. It was rather little organized and often proposed emissions on meetings of not very current sports such as that for the man most extremely of the world or Australian football.

In 1984, the network is repurchased by ABC Inc. (80%) and Hearst Corporation (20%).

A sporting reference and birth of an empire

In 1987, ESPN signs a contract to diffuse the matches of the National Football League Sunday evening. This event marks a turning in the development of the cabled chain. It quickly becomes a commercial empire and a cultural reference as regards sport. In 1989 with the creation of Latin ESPN America and in 1990 with the launching of ESPN Asia Network, the company continues its growth but with the international one.

During the Years 1990, it is regarded as true a " guarantee qualité" “entertainment the” sporting one following the example CNN for the topicality. ESPN becomes a chain of the network ESPN Entreprises with the launching of ESPN2 in October 1993, second chain of sport the most looked in the United States with 87 million televiewers.

In 1995, ESPN reaches a penetration rate of more than 70%.

Disney repurchases ESPN and extends the empire

The expansion of the network continues in 1996, when the Walt Disney Company reachète ABC and enters to the capital to majority share and reinforce the strategic policy of international ESPN. The concept of the ESPN Zone is launched with the opening in 1997 of the first with Baltimore

Will be added thereafter ESPNEWS and ESPN Classic , old Classic Sports Network, repurchased by ESPN in 1997 and followed by 54 million hearth.

But ESPN Inc. is also the unchallenged leader of the companies of multi-media sportsman. ESPN, thanks to the dynamics of ABC also includes/understands radio stations, Internet sites, Magazine S… It organizes also event S sportsmen like the X Ranges and directs university teams.

In March 2002, ESPN Classic Sport is launched in France like first variation of the group in Europe. It is followed a few months afterwards by ESPN Classic Sport Italy (June 2002). It is it should be noted that ESPN is at the origin of the creation of Eurosport of which it held 20%, but it had been withdrawn in 1995 and had left its share to its associate of then TF1.

ESPN Classic Sport covers in December 2003, twenty European countries. In January 2005, it is available in 39 countries in Europe and is looked by approximately 15 million people. Although it is the European network with the fastest growth, its appetite does not stop there. In September 2005 was launched a chain ESPN Classic on the most promising market: the the United Kingdom.

In 2005 ESPN proposes a service baptized Mobile ESPN which makes it possible to follow sporting information on a cellphone and to personalize the information wanted in addition to visualizing certain contents.

The January 3rd 2006, the Disney-ABC Cables Network Group and ESPN add services of Vidéo to the request with the contract binding Disney and Verizon.

The December 5th 2006, ESPN International takes the control of NASN a European chain dedicated to the American sports for the sum of 80 million $.

Beginning 2007, ESPN took a minority interest in the company Arena Football League and signed a 5 year old contract ensuring to him the diffusion of 26 matches per season. Moreover the company to the possibility of retransmettre these matches on its various chains and services multi-media.

The February 8th 2007 Disney and ESPN announces that the license Mobile ESPN will be granted of exclusiveness Verizon Wireless through its offer: $15 per month V CAST for 15$ per month. Moreover chain ESPN will be available on the mobile service MediaFLO TV of Qualcomm.

The June 12th 2007, in order to supplement its total sporting offer, ESPN announces the repurchase of the most important site on the Cricket Cricinfo with the Wisden Group.

The August 22nd 2007, ESPN repurchases Internet site of Rugby Scrum.com

Owners of ESPN

ESPN was at its origin in 1979 an association between the Getty Oil Company (repurchased by Texaco) and Nabisco. Then in 1984, the totality of the networks and franknesses from ESPN were repurchased by ABC (80%) and the Hearst Corporation (20%).

Following the repurchase of ABC by the Walt Disney Company in 1996, the company belongs from now on to the Walt Disney Company (80%) and to the Hearst Corporation (20%). Disney wishes to develop planetary rise mark (started in 1989-1990) and to decline its concepts with the ambition to obtain same success as in the United States.

The current society

The network of American chain ESPN is the most profitable network of television and the offer of chains and services do not cease growing. Disney associated to ESPN one ABC (ABC Sports, the sporting programs of its general channels, with those of ESPN in order to have a better quality of programming.

In 2005, ESPN International is the largest distributer of sporting programs throughout the world. It is diffused in 180 Pays and territories apart from the United States, is translated or recorded into eleven Langues: Arab, Cantonese, English, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese and Spanish.

Internet sites of the group lodge those of NBA, NFL and MBA.

Disney develops a Synergie of group around ESPN with derivative products, video games or recreational centres (ESPN Zone). A network of radio had been developed even in collaborationb with the radiophonic network of ABC before the repurchase by Disney: ESPN Radio.

Chains and services

  • international Chains held entirely by International ESPN

    • Sporting ESPN (1990) in Japan
    • ESPN New Zealand (1990)
    • ESPN CAP Rim (1991) circumference of the Pacific Ocean)
    • ESPN Asia (1992)
    • Orbit ESPN Sports (1994) for the the Middle East
    • ESPN Africa (1995)
    • ESPN Australia (1995)
    • ESPN Brazil (1995)
    • ESPN Taiwan (1995)
    • ESPN Back (1996)
    • ESPN India (1998)
    • ESPN Classic Canada (2001)
    • ESPN Classic Sport (2001-present) for the Europe
    • ESPN More/ESPN Màs (2002)

  • partly held international Chains

Other activities of the group

See also ESPN Enterprises, the subsidiary company managing the nontelevisual or radiophonic interests group.

The chain

Information below is extracted from ESPN Mediakit (2006).

Emissions

Emissions in studio

  • Baseball Tonight (1990-present)
  • Batting Practice (2006-present)
  • College GameDay (1989-present)
  • Final GameDay College (1999-present)
  • College GameDay Scoreboard (? - present)
  • College GameNight (2005-present)
  • Monday Night Countdown (1993-present)
  • NFL Matchup (1993-present)
  • NFL Live (1999-present)
  • NFL Primetime (1987-present)
  • NBA Fastbreak (2002-present)
  • NBA Shootaround (2002-present)
  • Outside the Lines (1990-present)
  • SportsCenter (1979-present)
  • Sunday NFL Countdown (1985-present)
  • The Trifecta (2005-present)
  • X Center (2005-present)

Weekly events

  • ACC Wednesday (- present)
  • Big Monday (- present)
  • College Football Primetime (- present)
  • ESPN DayGame (1996-present)
  • Friday Night Fights (- present)
  • Monday Night Baseball (2002-present)
  • Monday Night Football (2006-present)
  • NBA Friday (2002-present)
  • NBA Sunday (2002-present)
  • NBA Wednesday (2002-present)
  • NTRA Super Saturdays (2003-present)
  • Saturday Primetime (2005-present)
  • Sunday Night Baseball (1990-present)
  • Super Tuesday (- present)
  • Throwdown Thursday (- present)
  • Thursday Night Baseball (2003-present)
  • Wednesday Night Baseball (1990-present)

Last emissions

  • Baseball 2day (2000-)
  • BodyShaping (1990-1998)
  • NHL 2Night (1995-2004)
  • Sunday Night Football (1987-2005)
  • Unscripted with Chris Connelly (2001-2003)
  • Up Close (1984-2001)

The emissions Original ESPN Entertainment

Current emissions

  • 1st and 10 (talk show, 2003-present)
  • Around the Horn (talk show, 2002-present)
  • Battle off the Gridiron Stars (reality contest, 2005-present)
  • Jumps one Jumps (reality show, 2006-present)
  • Bowling Night (reality contest, 2005-present)
  • Cold Pizza pie (morning talk show, 2003-present)
  • Dream Job (reality contest, 2003-present)
  • Great Outdoor Ranges (1995-present)
  • Jim Rome is Burning (talk show, 2003-present)
  • Knight School (reality contest, 2006-present)
  • Forgiveness the Interruption (talk show, 2001-present)
  • Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith (talk show, 2005-present)
  • Streetball: And 1 Mix Slap Tower (2002-present)
  • Stump the Schwab (range show, 2004-present)
  • Teammates (range show, 2005-present)
  • The Sports Reporters (talk show, 1992-present)
  • Tilt (drama series, 2005-present)
  • World Series off Poker (2003-present)

Last emissions

  • 2 Minute Seed-planting drill (range show, 2000-2001)
  • Beg, Borrow and Deal (reality contest, 2001-2002)
  • Bound for Glory (reality show, 2005)
  • ESPN Hollywood (entertainment news, 2005-2006)
  • I' D C Anything (reality contest, 2004-2005)
  • Playmakers (drama series, 2003)
  • Shaquille (reality show, 2005)

Films

  • 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story (TV movie, 2004)
  • has Season one the Brink (TV movie, 2002)
  • Code Breakers (TV movie, 2005)
  • Four Minutes (TV movie, 2005)
  • Hustle (TV movie, 2004)
  • The Junction Boys (TV movie, 2002)
  • Through the Fire (TV movie; 2006)

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