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The Premier League (EPL) is the most-watched sports league in the world, with TV audiences of approximately 3.2 billion people across 188 countries. [citation needed] Since its creation in 1992, the Premier League has sold its international broadcasting rights centrally, [citation needed] and this global dominance is also reflected economically.
Premier League: Premier League on ESPN: ESPN ESPN2 ESPN3 ESPN Deportes 1996–1998, 2009–2013: Broadcast Monday night matches on ESPN2 from 1996 to 1998. Re-acquired rights in 2009 initially broadcasting matches in Saturday morning and Monday timeslots. Sublicensed matches from Fox Sports starting in 2010.
Premier League viewership has increased rapidly, with NBC and NBCSN averaging a record 479,000 viewers in the 2014–15 season, up 118% from 2012–13 when coverage still aired on Fox Soccer and ESPN/ESPN2 (220,000 viewers), [2] and NBC Sports has been widely praised for its coverage.
Fox is not included on the weekday schedule: Fox only airs daytime programming (in the form of sports on weekend afternoons) Effective this season, The CW turned over its weekday daytime hour to its affiliated stations on September 6, 2021; [1] as such, The CW will not be listed in any afternoon network schedule articles from this season onward.
ESPN2 launched on October 1, 1993, at 7:30 p.m. ET.Its inaugural program was the premiere of SportsNight, a sports news program originally hosted by Keith Olbermann and Suzy Kolber; Olbermann opened the show and the channel by jokingly welcoming viewers to "the end of our careers."
ESPN2 formerly aired matches from the Premier League between 1996 and 1998, [29] [30] and then from 2009 to 2013. From 2010 to 2013, ESPN2 had its own commentary team of Ian Darke and Steve McManaman calling the action live in England, with Darrell Currie , Dave Beckett, or Alicia Ferguson reporting pitchside.
When the contract went up for renewal in 2021, the Premier League split its U.S. media rights into four packages (as it does with its domestic rights) to pursue the possibility of multiple broadcasters. [18] On November 18, 2021, NBC Sports confirmed that it had reached a six-year extension of its exclusive rights to the Premier League through ...
ESPN 2 is a Latin American pay-television channel based in Buenos Aires broadcasting for Spanish-speaking Latin American countries. Its programming is mostly football-, tennis- and rugby union-related. The channel was first launched in 1996 as ESPN 2 in Mexico and Central America and in 2002 as ESPN+ for South America. It consists on four ...