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49-423: The use of the name ESPN3 was discussed as early as 1996 for the channel that would eventually become known as ESPNews . The website began in 2005 as ESPN360.com , a mostly on-demand video website. In September 2007, ESPN360.com shifted away from on-demand content, such as studio shows, and shifted toward placing "emphasis on live events". On April 4, 2010, ESPN360.com re-launched as ESPN3.com . On August 31, 2011,

98-466: A French-language sister network to Réseau des sports (RDS) (which in turn, is a sister network to the English language TSN ), which maintains a sports news format and ticker similar to that used by ESPNews, and carries continuous broadcasts of Sports 30 (RDS's equivalent of SportsCenter ). Until October 2011, when RDS2 was launched, RDS Info was also used as a part-time secondary outlet for RDS in

147-592: A joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (which owns a controlling 80% stake) and Hearst Communications (which owns the remaining 20%). Known as "ESPN3" in its planning stages and proposed as early as 1993, the channel launched on November 1, 1996, and originally featured a rolling news format with 24-hour coverage of sports news and highlights. Since 2010, the network has largely shifted away from this format, and now primarily carries television simulcasts of ESPN Radio shows, encores of ESPN's weekday lineup of studio programs, and overflow event programming in

196-589: A 6 MHz cable channel. In the 1990s, cable providers began to invest heavily in this new multi-channel digital TV technology to expand the number of channels and services available to subscribers. Increased competition and programming choices from direct-broadcast satellite services such as DirecTV , Dish Network , and PrimeStar caused cable providers to seek new ways to provide more programming. Customers were increasingly interested in more channels, pay-per-view programming, digital music services, and high speed internet services. By 2000, most cable providers in

245-401: A half-hour segment of ESPN Radio programming on Sunday mornings. The broadcast includes three commentators (a retired coach, a retired player, and an analyst) to break down the events of the featured sport, while an on-screen graphical list of standings, statistical leaders, and other statistics of the featured sport is displayed, the upper-right of the screen shows sports highlights (usually of

294-473: A highlights segment rundown featuring sports news headlines and highlights of the previous night's sporting events presented by an ESPNews overnight anchor. The channel's BottomLine ticker was formerly more in-depth than the versions used by ESPN's other networks. It contained not only scores, but also statistics and brief news alerts about the day's sports headlines. However, in June 2010, the network switched to

343-408: A subscriber cannot access ESPN3 unless a participating ISP actually operates in the area. ESPN's only recommended solution in such a situation is to have the consumer lobby an ISP that is available in their area to add ESPN3. ESPNews ESPNews (pronounced "ESPN News," stylized ESPNEWS ) is an American multinational digital cable and satellite television network owned by ESPN Inc. ,

392-404: Is a logical channel of data within the physical channel. Technically there can be up to 1024 subchannels in a physical channel, though in practice only a few are used (as the bandwidth must be divided among all the subchannels). There are two ways providers try to make this easier for consumers. The first, accomplished through PSIP , is where program and channel information is broadcast along with

441-674: Is automatically determined by assessing the incoming IP address. Those accessing from outside their usual network or from a mobile device can (and must) use their TV Everywhere login to access ESPN3 content. In the United States, the network is available to individuals who receive their high-speed Internet connection or cable television subscription from an affiliated service provider. Since 2008, ESPN3 has also been available to approximately 21 million U.S. college students and U.S.-based military personnel via computers with college/university ( .edu ) and U.S. military ( .mil ) IP addresses. ESPN3

490-470: Is only available to Internet providers who pay fees to ESPN. ESPN3 is not carried by traditional cable and satellite providers, as it is not a single channel, but streams multiple live events at the same time; however, ESPN includes a listing for a linear "ESPN3" channel (which only includes one event at a time) in the television listings on its website. As part of the wide-ranging distribution agreement that DirecTV and The Walt Disney Company announced, ESPN3

539-512: Is specified in SCTE 07, and is part of the DVB standard (but not ATSC ). This method carries 38.47 Mbit/s using 256-QAM on a 6 MHz channel, which can carry nearly two full ATSC 19.39 Mbit/s transport streams. Each 6-MHz channel is typically used to carry 7–12 digital SDTV channels (256-QAM, MPEG2 MP/ML streams of 3–5 Mbit/s). On many boxes with QAM tuners (most notably

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588-497: 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. The network was formerly simulcast on ESPN during coverage of major breaking sports news before that network expanded SportsCenter into additional daytime slots in 2008, additionally, ABC 's early morning newscast, America This Morning , previously ran

637-667: Is the distribution of cable television using digital data and video compression . The technology was first developed by General Instrument. By 2000, most cable companies offered digital features, eventually replacing their previous analog-based cable by the mid 2010s. During the late 2000s, broadcast television converted to the digital HDTV standard, which was incompatible with existing analog cable systems. In addition to providing high-definition video , digital cable systems provide more services such as pay-per-view programming, cable internet access and cable telephone services . Most digital cable signals are encrypted , which reduced

686-507: The DVR boxes), high definition versions of local channels, and some cable channels are available. Digital cable allows for the broadcast of EDTV (480p) as well as HDTV (720p, 1080i, and 1080p). By contrast, analog cable transmits programs solely in the 480i format (the lowest television definition in use today). The Advanced Television Systems Committee standards include a provision for 16-VSB transmission over cable at 38.4 Mbit/s, but

735-633: The TV Everywhere system) violates the principles of network neutrality . ESPN3 bundles its content into the fees of the participating ISP, regardless of whether or not users partake in accessing its content. If a particular ISP does not pay subscription fees to ESPN, users of that ISP are not granted access to ESPN3. There is no way for individual users to overcome these access restrictions as ESPN3 does not provide subscription options for individual users or any other non-ISP entities, and because most ISPs operate in specific territories without competition,

784-490: The HD feed, becoming the last ESPN network with a HD companion channel to make the conversion to a full-widescreen presentation. ESPNEWS HD was added to Dish Network on March 18, 2014, as part of a new carriage agreement that ended a four-year dispute that removed existing HD simulcast feeds of Disney-owned channels. While not operating under the ESPN name, CTV Specialty Television (which is partly owned by ESPN) operates RDS Info ,

833-550: The Lines , Pardon the Interruption , and SportsNation . In March 2019, ESPNews premiered Daily Wager , a new weekday studio show devoted to sports betting . In August 2019, it was announced that Daily Wager would move to ESPN2 on August 20, 2019, and that a new L-bar featuring betting lines and other statistics would be displayed on ESPNews during non-event programming, and on ESPN2 during Daily Wager . The feature

882-556: The US were offering some form of digital cable TV to their customers. Digital cable technology has allowed cable providers to compress video channels so that they take up less bandwidth and to offer two-way communication capabilities. This has enabled providers to offer more channels, video-on-demand services that don't require a separate telephone line , telephone services, high speed internet services, and interactive television services. Digital cable implements error correction to ensure

931-519: The afternoon), and the overnight soccer program ESPNFC Press Pass . The network also airs programming under the College Football Live banner on Saturday afternoons during college football season, a whip-around program similar to ESPN Goal Line , which gives live look-ins to multiple college football games happening simultaneously. On June 13, 2013, Highlight Express was canceled due to low ratings and company-wide downsizing, leaving

980-467: The audio simulcast of ESPNEWS. In August 2010, telecasts of SportsCenter on ESPNews increased in frequency, now airing whenever ESPN or ESPN2 were unable to air the program due to scheduling conflicts, along with an afternoon expansion of SportsCenter to the channel's afternoon schedule rather than rolling ESPNews -branded coverage, while ESPN and ESPN2 carry sports talk and debate programming. The Beat (a show showing pop culture and sports action to

1029-487: The cable company to change the frequency of a channel without changing what the customer sees as a channel number. In such arrangements, the physical/sub-channel numbers are called the "QAM channel", and the alternative channel designation is called the "mapped channel", "virtual channel", or simply "channel". In theory, a set-top box can decode the PSIP information from every channel it receives and use that information to build

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1078-409: The channel's standard-definition feed. It utilized reworked HD sideline graphics, a descendant of the "Rundown" used on overnight editions of SportsCenter on ESPN, which wrapped around the top left and bottom of the widescreen picture. The HD Sideline offered the display of textual information, headshots, news and scores, while still delivering video highlights in the HD format. The enhanced format

1127-485: The encoding has not yet gained wide acceptance. Some SMATV systems may carry 8-VSB and QAM signals, mostly in apartment buildings and similar facilities that use a combination of terrestrial antennas and cable distribution sources (such as HITS or " Headend in the Sky ", a unit of Comcast that delivers digital channels by satellite to small cable systems). Digital cable channels typically are allocated above 552 MHz,

1176-601: The event of conflicts with ABC or the other ESPN networks. As of November 2023 , ESPNEWS is available to approximately 36 million pay television households in the United States—down from its 2013 peak of 76 million households. 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 Networks had previously aired ESPNews during

1225-521: The event of scheduling conflicts. It has since served as an occasional tertiary outlet for RDS programming, similar to the role now served by ESPNews. ESPN Star Sports (a joint venture between ESPN International and Star TV ) operated an Asian version of ESPNews that was launched in November 2009 in Singapore on Singtel 's Mio TV and later expanded to other areas, including Hong Kong, where it

1274-432: The frequency space that would normally be occupied by a single analog cable TV channel. The number of channels placed on a single analog frequency depends on the compression used. Many cable providers are able to fit about 10 digital SD channels or 2 digital HD channels on a single analog channel frequency. Some providers are able to squeeze more channels onto a single frequency with higher compression, but often this can cause

1323-445: The incidence of cable television piracy which occurred in analog systems. In 1990, General Instrument (acquired by Motorola and now owned by ARRIS Group ) demonstrated that it was possible to use digital compression to deliver high quality HDTV in a standard 6 MHz television channel. Using the same technology General Instrument (GI) demonstrated the digital transmission of multiple high quality standard definition programs in

1372-420: The integrity of the received signal and uses a secure digital distribution system (i.e. a secure encrypted signal to prevent eavesdropping and theft of service.) Most digital cable providers use QAM for video services and DOCSIS standards for data services. Some providers have also begun to roll out video services using IPTV or Switched video . Digital cable technology can allow many TV channels to occupy

1421-404: The linear networks (see ESPN Megacast ), panorama coverage of multiple courts (in the case of bracket tournaments, especially for major tennis tournaments), Spanish dubs not carried on ESPN Deportes , and a limited amount of exclusive college sports programming, mostly from smaller colleges and universities. In contrast to WatchESPN and other TV Everywhere services, access to ESPN3 from computers

1470-475: The mapping between QAM channel and virtual channel. However, cable companies do not always reliably transmit PSIP information. Alternatively, CableCards receive the channel mapping and can communicate that to the set-top box. The standard for signal transmission over digital cable television systems in the United States is now fixed as both 64-QAM and 256-QAM ( quadrature amplitude modulation ), which

1519-476: The network became simply known as ESPN3 , and was incorporated into the WatchESPN app (which carries simulcasts of ESPN , ESPN2 , ESPNU , ESPNews , ESPN Deportes , ESPN Goal Line , ESPN Buzzer Beater , SEC Network and Longhorn Network for cable subscribers ). In April 2018, a new subscription over-the-top content service called ESPN+ launched. ESPN+ is a separate service which does not require

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1568-523: The newsmagazine E:60 now fill the network's schedule, along with encores such as Friday Night Fights , as well as programming affected by sports-induced pre-emptions and overruns such as Olbermann during the US Open. The highlights and segment package for America This Morning came under the purview of the late-night SportsCenter team from Los Angeles from that day forward. On November 29, 2017, as part of an expected announcement of 150 behind

1617-460: The overnight ESPNFC Press Pass , produced primarily for ESPN International , as the only program on the network that was exclusively broadcast (within the U.S.) on ESPNews, that program was removed from the schedule in August 2013, after it was supplanted by a new ESPN2 program simply titled ESPN FC . Additional runs of SportsCenter and other same-day airings of ESPN sports debate programming or

1666-420: The overnight or morning hours to provide a pseudo-national sportscast 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

1715-544: The player or team of discussion), a fan comment board appears at the bottom of the screen, above the ESPNEWS BottomLine. ESPNEWS operates a high-definition simulcast feed, which broadcasts in 720p (the default resolution format for The Walt Disney Company's television properties) and was launched on March 30, 2008. Originally, the layout and graphics were reworked specifically for viewing on widescreen television sets, offering additional content not available on

1764-577: The primary overflow network for situations in which ESPN and ESPN2 carry live sports coverage, with ESPNU , the ACC Network and SEC Network being limited to college sports overflow situations. Additionally, ESPNEWS simulcasted ESPN Deportes ' coverage of the 2018 Supercopa de España , the first time it has aired Spanish-language programming although the BottomLine ticker continued to be displayed in English. In 2007, ESPNEWS began broadcasting

1813-515: The program's regular timeslots on ESPN and ESPN2's own sports analysis programs, which until 2010 would be the only incidences in which SportsCenter would be carried over to ESPNews. XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio both provide channels with audio simulcasts of ESPNEWS, with the network's television advertisements replaced with radio ads from each service. On February 4, 2008, XM rebranded its channel as " ESPN Xtra ," and added radio programs from local ESPN Radio affiliates as well as

1862-462: The scenes staffs being laid off from the network, ESPN announced that the primetime SportsCenter editions carried in primetime on ESPNews would be terminated after November 30, 2017 to cut costs (breaking sports news coverage will be maintained when needed). They were replaced by a block of reruns of ESPN and ESPN2's daytime talk programs, including Around the Horn , Highly Questionable , Outside

1911-508: The standard BottomLine and screen presentation used by all other ESPN networks in preparation for the launch of SportsCenter broadcasts. On November 11, 2006, the channel marked its 10-year anniversary, programming commemorating the occasion included a montage of highlights covering the past 10 years in sports. The network began airing SportsCenter on nights when sporting event telecasts on ESPN and ESPN2, such as college football or Major League Baseball games, were scheduled to overrun into

1960-518: The tune of a beat) was shown while SportsCenter aired on ESPN at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time until its cancellation in July 2011, and replacement by a rebroadcast of the ESPN2 sports talk program SportsNation . By early 2013, the only other programs featured on ESPNews were Highlight Express (a half-hour program showing the previous day's sports highlights, running from 10:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time in

2009-483: The upper frequency of cable channel 78. (Cable channels above channel 13 are at lower frequencies than UHF broadcast channels with the same number, as seen in North American cable television frequencies .) Between 552 and 750 MHz, there is space for 33 6-MHz channels (231–396 SDTV channels); when going all the way to 864 MHz, there is space for 52 6-MHz channels (364–624 SDTV channels). In

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2058-592: The user to be an ESPN subscriber, but also doesn't include content from ESPN3, or access to ESPN's linear cable networks. A substantial number of programs that had previously been available on ESPN3 have since moved to ESPN+. This has drawn criticism online since such content has been effectively paywalled behind a separate subscription. As of 2023, ESPN3 broadcasts are mostly events that air over-the-air on ABC exclusively (with some exceptions when those broadcasts do not air on ESPN3 but instead on ESPN+ ), alternate camera angles of programming airing in simulcast on one of

2107-461: The video quality of the channel to degrade. The addition of this capability complicates the notion of a "channel" in digital cable (as well as in over-the-air ATSC digital broadcasts ). The formal names for the two numbers that now identify a channel are the physical channel and the subchannel. The physical channel is a number corresponding to a specific 6 MHz frequency range. See: North American cable television frequencies . The subchannel

2156-433: The video, allowing the consumer's decoder (set-top box or display) to automatically identify the many channels and subchannels. The second (also accomplished through PSIP) is where, in an effort to hide subchannels entirely, many cable companies map virtual channel numbers to underlying physical and sub-channels. For example, a cable company might call channel 5-1 "channel 732" and channel 5-2 "channel 733". This also allows

2205-494: Was discontinued in June 2010 and the channel now broadcasts in near-fullscreen 16:9 , with regular gray-and-red graphics similar to those used by the other ESPN channels. The move was made to "accommodate the high number of SportsCenter s that moved to the network during the World Cup ." On May 20, 2012, ESPNEWS switched the presentation of its standard definition feed from 4:3 to a downscaled widescreen letterbox version of

2254-479: Was launched in August 2011 on PCCW 's Now TV . It was renamed Fox Sports News in 2013, following News Corporation 's full take over of ESPN Star Sports, before it was closed down in 2017. This is a list of several past and present personalities on the ESPNews network. (NOTE: All of the current ESPNews anchors listed below are now SportsCenter anchors as of June 2013.) Digital cable Digital cable

2303-649: Was made available to DirecTV customers in early 2015. In December 2016, ESPN started the nationwide rollout of the ESPN App on DirecTV set top boxes in five states, which allows customers to stream thousands of live events from ESPN3 on their DirecTV set top boxes. The nationwide rollout was completed in February 2017. On November 1, 2010, ESPN3 launched on Xbox Live . This service allows Xbox Live members to access live sporting events on ESPN3, among other offerings, at no additional cost. At launch, Xbox Live Gold membership

2352-770: Was part of ESPN's partnership with Caesars Entertainment . ESPNEWS ran a simulcast of ESPN Radio 's Mike and Mike in the Morning from 2004 to 2005, the program moved to ESPN2 in 2006, although it still occasionally airs on ESPNEWS when live sports events (such as tennis' French Open or Wimbledon ) air on ESPN2. When ESPN2 televised the 2009 US Open tennis tournament, SportsNation aired on ESPNEWS instead from August 31, 2009 to September 11, 2009. As ESPN Classic 's carriage declined more into specialty cable tiers due to bandwidth conservation concerns and low viewership, along with no high-definition channel ever being established before its demise on December 31, 2021, ESPNEWS became

2401-513: Was required to access the ESPN app; however, with the June 2014 update to Xbox Live, Gold membership is no longer required to access ESPN on Xbox 360 or Xbox One . Dish Network added ESPN3 in April 2014. In September 2016, ESPN3 was made available on over-the-top online video service Sling TV . Some internet service providers have complained to the FCC that ESPN3 (along with other services that use

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