ESPN

ESPN is an American television channel, which exclusively broadcasts sports programs around the clock. The acronym stands for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. ESPN was founded in 1979 and broadcasts mainly from our own studios in Bristol (Connecticut) and reaches 90 million households (as of summer 2005) in the United States. The transmitter also has offices in New York, Seattle, Washington, DC, Charlotte and Los Angeles. Since founding the transmitter the newscast SportsCenter will be broadcast.

History

ESPN should be an alternative for sports coverage of conventional transmitter and the sports pages of the newspapers originally. The station was founded by Bill Rasmussen, a reporter from NBC partner WWLP, to life. It began in the very manageable and often had to rely on less common sports resort ( " Tractor Pull ", Australian Rules Football, or the United States Football League were on offer ). The name of the station was originally ESP ( Entertainment and Sports Programming), was changed before launch. ESPN has started broadcasting the first broadcast of SportsCenter on September 7, 1979. Before the start of the Getty Oil Company bought a majority stake in the company.

The turning point finally came in 1987, when it became ESPN, to conclude a contract with the NFL, which regulated the transfer of football games on Sunday night. From a fringe stations on cable television was rapidly from ESPN a powerful media empire.

ESPN was initially a joint venture between Getty Oil Company ( since acquired by Texaco ) and Nabisco. Since 2005, the entire ESPN family of channels is 80 percent ABC ( American Broadcasting Company, itself owned by The Walt Disney Company). The remaining 20 percent are owned by the Hearst Corporation.

Furthermore, there is today offshoot of ESPN, for example, ESPN2, ESPN3 ( online sports facilities among others soccer league ), ESPN News, ESPN HD ( broadcast of the normal program in high definition), ESPN Classic (formerly Classic Sports Network ), ESPNU ( specializes in college sports ), ESPN Radio (several medium-wave sports radio station in the United States are organized under this name and send partial joint program ) and ESPN The Magazine. The most popular sports news broadcast of ESPN is the " Sports Center " another popular program, for example, since 2006 in the program of ongoing ESPN Monday Night Football and the existing since 1987 show College GameDay.

In early 2007 took over the European U.S. sports channel NASN for an estimated 90 million euros ESPN. In February 2009, NASN has been renamed ESPN America.

The company slogan is " The Worldwide Leader in Sports" ( The worldwide leader in sports).