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The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, or ESPN, is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

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  1. Who are the espn gameday announcers?

    The main host of ESPN Gameday is Chris Fowler. New to the tea...

  2. How on ESPN fantasy football, do you select an image as your logo?

    Login to your ESPN Fantasy account, click on Fantasy Football...

  3. Who is espn's pick for next Sunday for NFL?

    Here is the link to the current Espn Lines for this weeks NFL...

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  3. When does the Espn 150 2013 come out for football?

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  1. Espn live superbowl?

    ESPN's panel of experts from other sports make their picks fo...

  2. Is the Superbowl on ESPN?

    You can get live coverage of the game on ESPN.com. In North A...

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    ESPN stands for Entertainment Sports Programming Network and ...

About ESPN

ESPN markets itself as The Worldwide Leader in Sports. Most programming on ESPN and its affiliated networks consists of live or tape-delayed sets of events and sports-related news programming (such as SportsCenter).

It was founded by Bill Rasmussen and his son Scott Rasmussen and was launched on September 7, 1979. ESPN started with the debut of SportsCenter hosted by Lee Leonard and George Grande. Afterwards was a pro slow pitch softball game. The first score on SportsCenter was from women's tennis on the final weekend of the US Open.

To help fill 24 hours a day of air time, ESPN aired a wide variety of sports events that broadcast networks did not show on weekends, including Australian rules football, the Canadian Football League, Davis Cup tennis, professional wrestling, boxing, and additional college football and basketball games.

The 1990s and early 2000s saw a considerable growth within the company. ESPN Radio launched on New Years Day, 1992. ESPN2 was founded in 1993, launched by Keith Olbermann and Suzy Kolber with SportsNite. Three years later ESPNews was born, with Mike Tirico as the first anchor. In 1997, ESPN purchased Classic Sports Network and renamed it ESPN Classic. The youngest ESPN network in the USA, ESPNU, began broadcasting on March 4, 2005.

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