ESPN America

ESPN America, by 1 February 2009 NASN for North American Sports Network, is a pay- TV television channel, which is dedicated to the usual North American sports. The station was founded in December 2002, the headquarters is located in London. The station exists in several versions for Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. It broadcasts live or delayed all in English.

Program

The program of ESPN America consists of: American Football (NFL and NCAA football ), hockey ( NHL and Frozen Four), Basketball ( NCAA), baseball ( MLB and College World Series), Lacrosse ( MLL and NCAA ), and Arena Football (AFL ), further sports news, highlights, analysis and classic. So ESPN America covers almost every major North American sports. In terms of motor sports Some Nascar rights are not on ESPN America, but for the. NHRA for the

Attention was ESPN America, at that time still under the name NASN Europe when it became surprisingly announced in September 2005 that the station has acquired the rights to broadcast the NFL for four years. Until then, some of the NFL games were broadcast on Premiere. In the season 2005/2006 NASN showed every week six games of the NFL, including four live ( two regular Sunday games, the Sunday Night Game and Monday Night Football ). The transmitter was in 2006 and 2007 also games from the now-defunct NFL Europe. Furthermore, there is collaboration with the American Football Association of Germany. The German Bowls in 2005 and 2006 were broadcast as the recording of NASN Europe.

For the 2007 season NASN also renewed the rights to Major League Baseball, the sender paid for a 5 -year contract around 20 million euros. Professional baseball in the United States has become one of the focal points of the transmitter.

Reception

ESPN America was receiving up to 1 August 2013 on cable television in the digital TV channel packages from cable Germany, Unity Media, Kabel BW, cable stand, Cablecom and Liwest. Since summer 2006, ESPN America is also receivable via satellite as part of the bouquet of arenaSAT as well as the IPTV service Entertain of Deutsche Telekom. September 2007 to August 2013 you could ESPN America also via other reception possible ties see.

Due to different legal positions, the programs of ESPN America in Continental Europe and ESPN America in the UK differ in part. So come in Italy and the UK, for example, ITV and BSkyB over the NFL rights (as of January 2006), so ESPN America GB can not transmit NFL games. On the other hand, ESPN America does not have the rights to the NBA.

Sale to ESPN

In December 2006, NASN announced that the previous owner Setanta Sport Holdings Ltd and Benchmark Capital Europe had agreed with the Disney corporation owned U.S. sports broadcaster ESPN on a sale of the company shares. The global network ESPN, which had been represented in Europe only with the ESPN Classic, paid an estimated 90 million euros for NASN.

Sale of ESPN UK

In February 2013 it was announced that BT Group, the European offshoot of ESPN July 2013, completely take over. BT had previously among others. acquired the broadcasting rights for the English Premier League from the 2013/14 season and looks into buying an extension of the sports portfolio. With the purchase of the station group also attractive agreements for the transfer of American sports leagues like the NHL or the NBA were taken with. It is expected that the broadcast of ESPN America outside of the United Kingdom is set.