ESPN Plus
ESPN Plus, the popular name of ESPN Regional Television, is an American television program syndicator. ERT is based along with sister network ESPNU in Charlotte, North Carolina. Prior to its purchase by ESPN, this sports package's syndicator was known as Creative Sports, which in turn merged with Don Ohlmeyer's self-titled Ohlmeyer Communication Corporation (OCC).
Telecasts
ESPN Plus produces and syndicates the following telecasts:
Games air on broadcast stations, regional sports networks, and on ESPN GamePlan and ESPN Full Court, both of which are out of market sports packages, and also on ESPN3 (formerly known as ESPN360.com) since 2007. Most games are produced in SD. However, beginning with the 2009-10 basketball season, select Big East games have been produced in High-Definition.
Since ERT shares its production facilities with those of ESPNU, there are some crossovers in production. Dari Nowkhah, who is also an anchor on ESPNEWS, hosts pregame, halftime, and postgame shows on the ESPN Plus telecasts. ERT also airs Studio 66, named for Big 12 sponsor Phillips 66, as the pregame show before the basketball telecasts. During the conference tournament, it travels to the tournament site.
Former rights
ESPN Plus once had rights to Conference USA football and basketball, Mountain West Conference football and basketball, and Big Ten Conference football and basketball, but has since lost them as detailed below:
Event organizer
In addition to the syndicated telecasts, ERT promotes a number of special events:
- It organizes the following college football bowl games, which are televised on either ESPN or ESPN2: Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl St. Petersburg, BBVA Compass Bowl, New Mexico Bowl, Maaco Bowl Las Vegas, Bell Helicopters Armed Forces Bowl, and Sheraton Hawaiʻi Bowl and (as of 2010) the Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas. Most of these games (except the Armed Forces, BBVA Compass and Texas Bowls) are usually held before Christmas and until 2006 were branded under the name "Bowl Road Trip," while ESPN telecasts after Christmas were referred to as "Capital One Bowl Week." (As of the 2007 bowl season, however, Bowl Week now covers all non-BCS games shown on ESPN, ESPN2, or ABC.) [5]
- It also organizes the MEAC-SWAC Challenge, a regular season game between teams representing two conferences of historically black colleges and universities in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision.
- It is also behind the following college basketball events: ESPNU BracketBusters, the Old Spice Classic held at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Florida, the Sonic All-College Basketball Classic in Oklahoma City, the Puerto Rico Tip-Off, the 76 Classic (formerly Anaheim Classic) in California, the Big East-SEC Challenge, the Charleston Classic in South Carolina, the Diamond Head Classic in Honolulu, Hawaii,[6] and the Cancun Governor’s Cup.[7] Most games in these tournaments are shown on ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU; those not shown on television air on ESPN3.com.
- In golf, ERT produced the PGA Tour's LG Skins Game and the Champions Tour's Wendy's Champions Skins Game, which aired on ABC and ESPN2 respectively. ERT also organizes the National Golf Challenge for amateur players.
- ESPN+ also produces the Warrior Lacrosse Challenge and NHRA telecasts for ESPN2.
References
- Notes
External links
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Current ESPN business ventures
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Defunct ESPN business ventures
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Company founders
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Former management
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
TV and radio stations
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
- Notes:
1. Disney manages and operates this station owned by James Crystal Radio under an LMA.
2. Disney manages and operates this station owned by Liberman Broadcasting under an LMA.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Broadcast divisions |
|
|
| National networks |
|
|
| Specialty networks |
|
College
|
|
|
|
Racing
|
|
|
|
Professional
|
|
|
|
Soccer / Rugby
|
|
|
|
Outdoors
|
|
|
|
Combatant
|
|
|
|
Premium
|
|
|
|
| Occasional broadcasts |
|
|
| Syndicators |
|
|
| Broadband services |
|
|
| Regional sports networks |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Additional resources on North American television
|
|
| North America |
List of local television stations in North America · DTV transition · North American TV mini-template
|
|
| Canada |
|
|
| Mexico |
|
|
| United States |
|
|
|
|
|
| Defunct networks |
|
|
| Out-of-market sports packages |
|
|