A local subscription service, KTV carries satellite channels such as ESPN, Discovery CNN International and Turner Classic Movies ( from the United States ) and BBC World from the United Kingdom.

In 1995, Stephen Greenberg co-founded Classic Sports Network with Brian Bedol, which was purchased by ESPN and became ESPN Classic.

Despite this, reruns of sports broadcasts have found a niche, and networks such as MSG Network, ESPN Classic and NFL Network currently have a significant portion of programming time devoted to reruns of live sportscasts.

* ESPN Classic – ESPN Classic story on 1973 Belmont – 19-Nov-2003

SNL also parodies ESPN Classic with fake archived obscure women's sportscasts from the 1980s such as bowling, weight lifting and curling, with announcers who know nothing about the sport, and instead focus on the sponsors which are always women's hygiene products.

Like most other Disney-owned cable channels, starting in 2008, Toon Disney began airing in High-Definition ( the only ones which didn't were ESPN Classic & SOAPnet ).

Also in June 2012, ESPN Classic first showed the documentary Sporting Chance: The Lasting Legacy of Title IX, narrated by Holly Hunter.

A new BottomLine was also released that day on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Classic and ESPNU, but it was quickly removed and reverted back to the old BottomLine ( which had been used since April 2003 ) due to an equipment failure ( however, this ticker was successful for the 2009 NFL Draft and the 2009 NBA Draft ).

In 2005, ESPN Classic aired an episode in The Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame ... series in which it examined the sale, and explained why Frazee cannot be held as the scapegoat:

It is shown several times annually on the ESPN Classic network.

This fight was also considered by many experts as a Saad Muhammad classic, and has been shown on ESPN Classic's Classic Fights show.

) A new four-year agreement between the BCS and ESPN had forestalled any possibility of the Cotton Bowl Classic joining the BCS until 2015 at the earliest.

On February 26, 2008, ESPN Classic began reairing AWA Championship Wrestling episodes, circa 1986-1990.

It is one of only two college football games on CBS that does not involve the Southeastern Conference ( the other being the Army – Navy Game ) and one of only two bowl games that is not aired on one of the ESPN family of networks ( ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, and ABC all air bowls ; the AT & T Cotton Bowl Classic, which airs on Fox, is the other ).

TSN also launched a number of digital specialty channels in 2001 ; including a local version of ESPN Classic, and the NHL Networka network devoted to ice hockey and the National Hockey League.

*** ESPN Classic, International channel with optional English or Dutch commentary

As of 2012, Battle of the Network Stars airs in reruns on Monday nights on ESPN Classic.

ESPN first broadcast the National High School Cheerleading Competition nationwide in 1983.

The first World Cheerleading Championships, or Cheerleading Worlds, were hosted by the USASF / IASF at the Walt Disney World Resort and taped for an ESPN global broadcast in 2004.

The highlights of this journey were broadcast in the United States on ESPN.

While regular season and post-season games in the NFL are all broadcast by national television contracts on CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN and NFL Network, the television broadcasts are for the most part handled by the individual teams.

At the time, ABC had lost its contract for NFL broadcast rights, and despite recently signing a long-term contract with ESPN, Michaels was interested in rejoining broadcast partner John Madden at NBC for the Sunday night package.

During his infamous Decision, broadcast on ESPN, James announced he would take his " talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat ," which triggered a volatile fusillade of anger, primarily from Cleveland fans ; Cavaliers ' owner Dan Gilbert released an over-the-top letter that reeked of bitterness, as he claimed that Cleveland would win a championship before James would.

In September, the Clippers announced a radio broadcast deal with KSPN-AM, the local ESPN Radio-operated outlet.

For the 2007 – 08 season, all but six regular-season games were carried on one these networks ; the other six were broadcast nationally on TNT or ESPN.

* List of programs broadcast by ESPN

ESPN reported paying $ 2. 25 billion for broadcast rights of SEC football games beginning in the 2009 season and running through the fiscal year 2025.

On October 26, 2010, ESPN broadcast a documentary commemorating Valenzuela's arrival with the Dodgers titled Fernando Nation as part of their 30 for 30 documentary series.

Atlantic City hosts The United States Poker Championship at the Trump Taj Mahal casino, which has been broadcast by ESPN in recent years.

The full range of channels broadcast via digital terrestrial television includes pay television services from operators such as Top Up TV and ESPN.

The Nationwide sponsorship is a seven-year contract, which coincides with NASCAR's current broadcast contract with ABC / ESPN.

ESPN is traditionally unable to air highlights of Olympic Games events until after the events have aired on tape-delay on the broadcast network holding the rights.

Although the game was televised live by ESPN, the station chose not to broadcast Hasselhoff's performance.

In February 2008, BattleBots announced that ESPN had offered to broadcast a " Collegiate BattleBots Championship " competition limited to a single 160-pound weight class to be held during the summer of 2008, with competitors from as many as 160 colleges.

the main sanctioning body of professional female rodeo athletes, governing events broadcast on ESPN and other sports broadcasts, is the Women's Professional Rodeo Association ( WPRA ).

Monday Night Football ( MNF ) is a live broadcast of the National Football League on ESPN.

As in 2007, the broadcast was shifted to ESPN once the first game was over.

Coverage of The U. S. Open is broadcast on television by NBC and ESPN, with additional online coverage of a marquee group provided by ESPN via the U. S. Open's official website.

Of golf's broadcast television partners in the U. S., NBC is the only network to provide four days of major tournament coverage ( CBS, which airs the Masters and the PGA Championship, only provides weekend coverage of its tournaments ; since 2010, the Open Championship has not been aired live on an over-the-air network, with all four rounds airing on ESPN and only edited highlights screened by ABC ).

The National Spelling Bee is sponsored by English-language newspapers and educational foundations ; it is also broadcast on ESPN.

Shortly after being named 2009 Nevada Sportsman of The Year, White added $ 100, 000 from his pocket to the $ 250, 000 total raised for the fund raising marathon sponsored by ESPN Radio 1100 for Las Vegas.