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| Country | United States |
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| Broadcast area | Worldwide |
| Headquarters | Bristol, Connecticut Los Angeles, California Mexico City, Mexico |
| Programming | |
| Language | Spanish |
| Picture format | 720pHDTV (480i,letterboxed for theSDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | The Walt Disney Company (80%) Hearst Communications (20%) |
| Parent | ESPN Inc. |
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| History | |
| Launched | January 7, 2004; 21 years ago (2004-01-07) |
| Links | |
| Website | espndeportes |
| Availability | |
| Streaming media | |
| ESPN app | Live simulcast (US pay-TV subscribers only) |
| DirecTV Stream,FuboTV,Hulu with Live TV,Sling TV,YouTube TV, Vidgo | |
ESPN Deportes (Spanish pronunciation:[i.espiˈendeˈpoɾtes],lit. 'ESPN Sports') is an American multinationalSpanish-languagepay televisionsports channel owned byESPN Inc., ajoint venture betweenThe Walt Disney Company (which owns a controlling 80% stake) andHearst Communications (which owns the remaining 20%). The network is aimed primarily at theHispanic community in the United States. The channel broadcasts from studio facilities at ESPN's traditional bases of operations inLos Angeles, andBristol, Connecticut, along with their Mexican base inMexico City.
ESPN Deportes is available on most pay-television providers includingComcast,Altice USA,AT&T U-verse,Cox Communications,Charter Communications,Dish Network, andDirecTV. According toNielsen, ESPN Deportes is available to at least 5.5 million Hispanic households in the United States through a programming package that includes the channel. Conversely, ESPN does not maintainsecond audio program audio feeds on any of their English-language channels in the United States (except forABC's SAP Spanish coverage for theNBA Finals), allowing full exclusivity to ESPN Deportes for the Spanish rights to their properties.
ESPN Deportes launched as an alternate Spanish-language programming feed in July 2001, whenESPN andMajor League Baseball began offering Spanish-language telecasts of theHome Run Derby and selectSunday Night Baseball game telecasts. By 2003, this simulcast was expanded to allSunday Night Baseball andSunday Night Football game broadcasts, as well as boxing.
ESPN Deportes became a separate 24-hour sports subscription channel on January 7, 2004. In 2007, ESPN Deportes began producing a dailyEnglish language segment featured during the overnight editions of its American parent network'sSportsCenter program, hosted byMichele LaFountain and several other personalities. ESPN Deportes launched a720phigh definition simulcast feed in April 2011, though as many American Spanish-language cable network packages remain with the majority of networks instandard definition, ESPN Deportes maintains their "BottomLine"news ticker in a form designed for4:3 sets, matching the form seen onESPN Classic andESPN on ABC broadcasts. However, as of 2016, the BottomLine ticker has since expanded to the 16:9 design used by the other ESPN networks.
On December 7, 2015, the network debuted its new four-studio production facility inMexico City with the Spanish version ofSportsCenter. Jorge Eduardo Sánchez andCarolina Padrón anchored the firstSportsCenter from the new studios which also featured well-known Mexican journalistJosé Ramón Fernández interviewing Mexican soccer coachesTomás Boy andMiguel Herrera. On January 4, 2016, the network moved all their shows produced in Mexico to the new facilities, includingFútbol Picante,Los Capitanes andCronómetro.
The network has the rights to show all the events listed below but some do not air on the network due to scheduling conflicts, instead they are streamed online in Spanish onESPN.com and the ESPN App.[1][2]
National Hockey League (NHL)
ESPN Deportes Radio launched on October 5, 2005, as the only 24-hour Spanish-language radio network aimed at U.S. Hispanic sports fans. Since its launch, the radio network has grown to include 45 affiliates nationwide, reaching close to 80% of the Hispanic population in the United States. The network is also available onSirius XM, and is streamed on the ESPN Deportes Radiomobile app foriOS andAndroid devices, and on ESPNDeportesRadio.com.
In addition to broadcasting live sports events, the radio network features various sports news and analysis programs (such as the soccer analysis programJorge Ramos y su Banda; sports news programRaza Deportiva; morning drive talk showESPN al Despertar; and the boxing news programA los Golpes).
ESPN has also operated radio networks, stations and programs in Latin America:
Launched in September 2000,ESPNDeportes.com covers more than 20 different sports with news, statistics, analysis and real-time scores aimed at U.S. and Latin American readers. The website also features video and audio content; fantasy games; live event webcasts; live chats with players, ESPN experts and other sports personalities; enterprise journalism; user-generated content including message boards and "conversations", with fans able to post comments on selected news items and blogs.
ESPN Deportes La Revista is a monthly Spanish-language magazine first published in August 2005, and distributed in conjunction with Grupo GW.ESPN Deportes La Revista offers a mix of original content targeted to the interests of U.S. Hispanics, as well as material from the English-language publicationESPN: The Magazine. The editorial section covers sports such as Major League Baseball, as well as winter baseball from theDominican Republic,Mexico,Puerto Rico andVenezuela; boxing; the NFL; international soccer; auto racing; and action sports. A digital edition ofLa Revista is available through Zinio.
Events not carried on TV in the Spanish language are carried onESPN Deportes+, a ESPN Deportes-branded section of theESPN3 service.[3]
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