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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."
ESPN Hockey Night (since 2021) ESPN Megacast (since 2006) ESPN2 College Football Friday Primetime (since 2004) ESPN2 College Football Saturday Primetime (since 1994) ESPN8 The Ocho (since 2017) Little League World Series (since 1985) Monday Night Football (since 2006) Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli (since 2021) NBA Friday (since 2002)
ESPN College Football is the branding used for broadcasts of NCAA Division I FBS college football across ESPN properties, including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, ESPN+, ABC, ESPN Classic, ESPN Deportes, ESPNews and ESPN Radio. ESPN College Football debuted in 1982. ESPN College Football consists of four to five games a week, with ESPN College Football ...
[14] [15] ESPN announced that all SEC games broadcast by ABC, regardless of window, would be branded as the SEC on ABC with its own distinct on-air presentation separate from other ESPN College Football broadcasts. The games also use a rearrangement of the 1990s ESPN College Football theme music instead of the current theme. [16] [17] [18]
ESPN broadcasts nationally televised college football games on Thursday nights each week, making it the college equivalent of the NFL's Monday Night Football. [24] The energy and excitement of such an atmosphere generally benefits the home teams, which have a winning record on Thursday nights. [ 25 ]
ESPN Sunday Night Football: ESPN 1987–2005: Package initially included eight Sunday Night games during the second half of the season from 1987 to 1997. Full rights acquired by ESPN in 1998; absorbed first half schedule from Turner Sports. Sunday night package moved to NBC Sports in 2006; ESPN acquired Monday Night Football from ABC. [181 ...
National television broadcasts of the National Football League (NFL) first aired on ESPN in 1980, when the network broadcast the 1980 NFL draft. ESPN did not air live NFL games until 1987, when it acquired the rights to Sunday Night Football. In 2006, ESPN lost the rights to Sunday Night Football and began airing Monday Night Football (MNF ...
Between 2006 and 2020, ESPN has opened the season with a Monday Night Football doubleheader, with a 7:00 p.m. game and a 10:30 p.m. both shown in their entirety nationwide. ESPN2 or ESPNEWS (only in 2012 because ESPN2 was airing an MLB game) started the second game if the game on ESPN was not over by the time the second game had started.