In television, the vast majority of broadcast and basic cable networks, over a hundred in all, are controlled by nine corporations: News Corporation ( the Fox family of channels ), The Walt Disney Company ( which includes the ABC, ESPN and Disney brands ), CBS Corporation, Viacom, Comcast ( which includes the NBC brands ), Time Warner, Discovery Communications, E. W. Scripps Company, Cablevision, or some combination thereof ( examples including the aforementioned The CW as well as A & E Networks, which is a consortium of Comcast and Disney ).

Labatt's broadcasting assets were sold to a privately held consortium named NetStar Communications, the investors of which included a number of Canadian firms as well as ESPN, which held about 30 %.

The station is owned by Alaska Broadcast Communications, and features programing from CBS Radio, and ESPN Radio.

In 2000, TSN and RDS's parent company NetStar Communications was acquired by Bell Globemedia and ESPN Inc ..

Discovery Channel is currently owned by CTV Specialty Television Inc. ( Bell Media 80 %/ ESPN 20 %) and Discovery Communications ( 20 %).

Licensed in 1994, Discovery Channel began broadcasting on January 1, 1995 under the ownership of NetStar Communications Inc. On March 24, 2000, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) approved CTV Inc. to acquire an 80 % voting interest in NetStar Communications Inc. ( the remaining 20 % owned by ESPN Inc .).

In 1999, seeking to change this, the company announced a deal to buy out the Canadian partners of NetStar Communications, owner of TSN, but was stymied by U. S. partner ESPN, which had veto power over such a sale.

The channel is owned by a consortium consisting of CTV Speciality Television Inc. ( 80 %) ( a division of Bell Media with 80 % and ESPN with 20 %); BBC Worldwide ( 10 %); and Discovery Communications ( 10 %).

After graduating magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications, Ley worked several minor broadcasting jobs, including public address announcer with the New York Cosmos soccer team, before landing his first major position with the ESPN in 1979.

Following Emmis Communications ' decision to lease WRKS's frequency to ESPN Radio beginning on April 30, 2012, WBLS became the New York market's only urban adult contemporary station.

The station is the ESPN Radio affiliate for Rhode Island and is owned by Hall Communications.

It is a class A clear channel station, sharing the frequency with KFBK in Sacramento, and can be heard, particularly at night, over most of the eastern U. S. The station is owned by Clear Channel Communications and uses the on-air nickname " Cincinnati's ESPN 1530.

The plan was to move the baseball game to ESPN, thereby interrupting the national feed on Cox Communications and other cable providers in the market.

KXMR ( 710 AM ) is a radio station located in Bismarck, North Dakota, airing ESPN Radio, and is owned by Clear Channel Communications.

WFRD is one of the few fully commercial college radio stations in the United States and its programming and operation are handled by a nine-member student directorate in consultation with an Alumni Overseers Committee that includes members from ClearChannel Communications, ESPN and PBS, as well as representatives of the College administration.

* Russell Wolff: Executive Vice President and Managing Director, ESPN International

He is currently Executive Vice President / Senior Advisor of the San Diego Padres and an analyst for the ESPN program Baseball Tonight.

* Steve Binder, Vice President-Publishing Director and Sales, ESPN Magazine

Kieran Burke was removed on December 14, 2005 and replaced by Mark Shapiro, former Executive Vice President of Programming at ESPN.

* Steve Bornstein, President and CEO ; also, the NFL's Executive Vice President of Media ( also the former Chairman of ESPN, and served as president of ABC )

* Howard Katz, Chief Operating Officer of NFL Films ( veteran TV sports executive ; former president of ABC Sports ; former ESPN Senior Vice President )

* Judy Fearing, Senior Vice President of Consumer Marketing ( former ESPN and Pepsi marketing executive )

* Al Jaffe, the Vice President of Talent at ESPN.

***** Vice President, ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex and Disney Water Parks-Ken Potrock

Schreiber contacted Traug Keller, a Senior Vice President at ESPN Radio, and Keller indicated that Cowherd would face no disciplinary action for the stunt, because there had been no policy against such a tactic at the time.

Vince Doria, who later became Senior Vice President of ESPN, was the executive editor.

* John Skipper: President, ESPN, Inc.

Guest speakers such as Jay Thomas, authors Pat Conroy, Tony Hillerman, Sister Helen Prejean, Orson Scott Card, Dana Gioia, Chaim Potok, former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin, former New Orleans Mayor and alumnus Marc Morial, actor Jim Caviezel, theologian George Weigel, Jesuit Superior General Peter Hans Kolvenbach, ESPN announcer Mike Tirico, theologian and former U. S. Ambassador Michael Novak, and United States President William Howard Taft have addressed the student body.

President Bush was in the ESPN television booth at the time of Jones ' homer and was the one who called it.

Among its members, Delta Upsilon includes James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States ; Joseph P. Kennedy, Ambassador to Great Britain and father of two senators and a President ; Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada ; Lou Holtz, NCAA football national champion as coach of Notre Dame in 1988 and ESPN college football analyst ; Michael D. Eisner, former chairman and CEO of Walt Disney Co .; Tommy Franks, former commanding general of the United States Central Command ; Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., editorialist and author ; Linus Pauling, two time Nobel Prize winner ; Charles Evan Hughes, former Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court ; and Juan Manuel Santos, current President Republic of Colombia.

In August 2012, Azinger was cited by ESPN for violation of its social media policy, after he Tweeted comments criticizing about President Barack Obama ’ s job creation record.

Despite the rebranding, it appears that ABC Sports continues to exist, at least nominally, as a division of the ABC network – George Bodenheimer's official title has remained " President, ESPN Inc. and ABC Sports " ( the second part would be unnecessary if ESPN had fully absorbed ABC's sports operations ).

While at ESPN, he served as color commentator for the 2004 World Cup of Hockey and as a roving reporter during the 1998 Stanley Cup Finals, where he interviewed President Bill Clinton during a game in Washington, D. C.

On October 6, 2011, during a live interview conducted on the sports cable television network, ESPN, Zirin referred to Hank Williams, Jr. as a racist and proslavery after Williams ‒ the writer and singer of ESPN's then-Monday Night Football theme song ‒ made a political statement in which he seemingly compared multiracial US President Barack Obama to former German national socialist leader, Adolf Hitler.

ESPN. com's Marc Stein was told the Lakers were to acquire Howard, Chris Duhon and Earl Clark, the Denver Nuggets were to acquire Andre Iguodala, the Philadelphia 76ers were to acquire Andrew Bynum and Jason Richardson, and the Magic were to acquire Arron Afflalo, Al Harrington, Nikola Vucevic, Maurice Harkless, Josh McRoberts, Christian Eyenga and five total protected future ( three first-round, two second-round ) picks from each of the other three teams.

On the NBA's trade deadline on February 24, 2011, numerous sports news outlets including ESPN reported that the Pacers had agreed to a three-team trade that would have sent Josh McRoberts to the Memphis Grizzlies and Brandon Rush to the New Orleans Hornets, while the Pacers would have received O. J.

* Josh Elliott — ESPN sports commentator

He asks ESPN employees Stuart Scott, Karl Ravech and Josh Elliot if they used his razor to which all answer in the negative.

* Josh Elliott: formerly working for ESPN, currently news anchor for Good Morning America

In 2007 it was recognized by ESPN. com's Jim Caple as one of the top 10 ball park destinations in the U. S. It is also featured in the 2008 book, " 101 Baseball Places To See Before You Strike Out " by Josh Pahigian ( 2008, The Lyons Press ).

* ESPN. com – Josh Powell