ESPN News
| ESPNews | |
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| Launched | November 1, 1996 |
| Owned by |
ESPN Inc. (The Walt Disney Company (80%) Hearst Corporation (20%)) |
| Picture format |
720p (HDTV) Downgraded to letterboxed 480i for SDTV feed |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area | Nationwide |
| Headquarters | Bristol, Connecticut |
| Sister channel(s) |
ESPN ESPN2 ESPN3 ESPNU ESPN Deportes ESPN Classic Longhorn Network SEC Network |
| Website | Official website |
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Availability
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| Satellite | |
| DirecTV | 207 |
| Dish Network | 142 |
| Cable | |
| Verizon FiOS | 572 72 (SD) |
| Time Warner Cable | 302 |
| Available on most other U.S. cable systems | Consult your local cable provider or program listings source for channel availability |
| Satellite radio | |
| Sirius | 121 (part of ESPN All Access) |
| XM | 141 (part of ESPN Xtra) |
| IPTV | |
| AT&T U-verse | 1604 604 (SD) |
| Streaming media | |
| WatchESPN or ESPN app |
watchespn.com (requires login from pay television provider to access content, availability varies; also available as app on Xbox Live and Apple TV) |
| Sling TV | Internet Protocol television |
| PlayStation Vue | Internet Protocol television |
ESPNews (pronounced "ESPN News") is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by ESPN Inc., 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%).
Known as ESPN3 in its planning stages and proposed as early as 1993, ESPNEWS launched on November 1, 1996 and originally focused on airing sports news, highlights and press conferences. Since 2010, the network has slowly become refocused to carry encores of ESPN's various sports debate and entertainment shows, along with video simulcasts of ESPN Radio shows, with press conferences now airing during the day on SportsCenter as the main ESPN channel has increasingly become news-based outside of live sports – rather than carrying recorded sports events. ESPNEWS has increasingly been used as an overflow network for programming conflicts on the other ESPN networks. Olbermann was also carried live on ESPNEWS on weeknights if sports coverage on ESPN2 overflowed into that program's regular time slot.
As of February 2015, ESPNews is available to approximately 71,989,000 pay television households (61.8% of households with at least one television set) in the United States.
ESPNEWS is typically offered on the digital tiers of U.S. cable providers, and is carried as a premium channel in some areas; satellite providers offer it on their standard package. Some regional sports networks that are not associated with Fox Sports Net had previously aired ESPNEWS during the overnight or morning hours to provide a pseudo-national sports report to their viewers, and to fill time that would otherwise be taken up by paid programming or other lower-profile programs, though as vertical integration has occurred with the sports networks now owned by Comcast (with NBC Sports) and Charter Communications, ESPNEWS programming has been dropped from these networks; however, its programming is still carried during the overnight hours on MASN2. If a national ESPN broadcast is blacked out in a particular market, the ESPN broadcast will usually be replaced by ESPNEWS.
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