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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 ...
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.
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 Premier League is particularly popular in Asia, where it is the most widely distributed sports programme. [38] In India, the matches are broadcast live on Star Sports. Premier League broadcasts began in India in August 1996. Liverpool's 2–0 victory over Arsenal was the first Monday night game broadcast. [39]
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."
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]
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