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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 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]
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."
The Premier League is the most-watched football league in the world, broadcast in 212 territories to 643 million homes and a potential TV audience of 4.7 billion people. [9] The Premier League's production arm, Premier League Productions, is operated by IMG Productions and produces content for its international television partners. [194]
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.
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.
Survival Sunday is a term used to refer to final day coverage of the Premier League in England.The phrase is primarily used by Sky Sports, [1] when relegation places are still to be decided, and is used on all the adverts for the end of season football coverage, a day when all the week's ten matches are scheduled for the same window of time.