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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.
USFL on ESPN: ESPN 1983–1985: Broadcast games in primetime on Saturdays and Mondays. ESPN offered to broadcast a 22-game slate in 1986, but the league suspended operations instead. The league ultimately ceased to exist. [183] [184] [185] XFL: XFL on ESPN: ABC ESPN ESPN2 FX 2020, 2023: League suspended operations for two years.
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.
NBC acquired rights to the Premier League in 2013, replacing Fox Sports and ESPN. [2] NBC's studio programming for the league includes the pre-match show Premier League Live, and the highlights shows Premier League Goal Zone and Match of the Day (modeled upon the similar BBC series). [3]
In 1993, the Premier League was formed, [20] a move which caused the fourth-tier league to be renamed as the Third Division. [21] In 2004, the Third Division was re-branded as Football League Two, [ 22 ] before the League's adoption of English Football League (EFL) led to a 2016 renaming as the EFL League Two.
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.
The channel was established by ESPN Inc. on August 3, 2009 as ESPN (or ESPN UK for disambiguation), after having acquired a share of rights to English Premier League football. It served as ESPN's first UK channel devoted to domestic sport, as its pan-European sister networks ESPN Classic and ESPN America were devoted to archive content and ...
The BBC shows weekly highlights of the Premier League on its Match of the Day and Match of the Day 2 programmes on Saturdays and Sundays. [ 1 ] The 200 UK televised games are also broadcast across the world; the remaining 180 matches that aren't broadcast live in the UK are all broadcast elsewhere around the world outside Europe (in Europe, 233 ...