ESPN Events
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| Private subsidiary | |
| Industry | Media |
| Genre | Sports |
| Fate | lost its last major college sports conference in 2015 except for one minor college sports conference (MAAC) and transformed into a sports planning division. |
| Predecessor | Creative Sports Ohlmeyer Communications Corporation ESPN Plus ESPN Regional Television |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Headquarters | Charlotte, North Carolina, United States |
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Key people
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Pete Derzis (general manager/senior vice president) |
| Services | Regional Sports Planning (formerly Television syndication) |
| Owner | ESPN Inc. |
| Parent |
The Walt Disney Company (80%) Hearst Corporation (20%) |
| Website | http://www.espnevents.com |
ESPN Events is an American sporting event planning division that is owned by ESPN Inc. ESPN Inc. is a joint venture between the Disney–ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company (which owns a controlling 80% stake) and the Hearst Corporation (which owns the remaining 20%). ESPN Events is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and shares its operations with ESPNU. The corporation organizes sporting events for broadcast across the ESPN family of networks, including, most prominently, a group of college football bowl games and in-season college basketball tournaments.
The company was founded as Creative Sports, a sports programming syndicator that merged with Don Ohlmeyer's Ohlmeyer Communications Corporation Sports (OCC Sports) in 1996. After ESPN purchased the merged company, the division was renamed ESPN Regional Television (known on-air as ESPN Plus until 2008).
Most of ESPN's syndicated broadcasts had been presented under the on-air name ESPN Plus. However, the brand has since been phased out from its productions in favor of conference brands, such as SEC TV and the Big 12 Network. The unit produced sporting events for syndication on broadcast stations, regional sports networks; these telecasts were also available on the ESPN GamePlan and ESPN Full Court out-of-market sports packages. ESPN largely exited the syndication business by 2015, moving its conference sports broadcast to dedicated cable networks.
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