ESPN2
Launched	October 1, 1993
Owned by	ESPN Inc. Events 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. The year 1993 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 1993. (The Walt Disney Company (80%) Hearst Corporation (20%))
Picture format	480i (SDTV) 720p (HDTV)
Country	United States
Language	American English
Website	ESPN2 Website
Availability
Satellite
DirecTV	209
Dish Network	142 (SD) 9425 (HD)
Cable
Available on most cable systems	Check local listings for channels
Cox Cable	31 (in Las Vegas)

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1993-2001

One of several logos from ESPN2's early days. These "graffiti 2" logos were used until 2001.

Style

The original ESPN2 graphics featured the letters "ESPN" in several fonts, one of which was its traditional script, with the only consistency being the '2' that looked like spray painted graffiti. Graffiti (singular graffito; the plural is used as a Mass noun) is the name for images or lettering scratched scrawled painted or marked in any manner on property On-screen graphics used an odd font with random capital letters, as "tHis iS aN ExAMplE". No announcers wore ties and traditional sports had "deuce names", NASCAR was "Hell on Wheels", the NHL was "Fire on Ice", and so on. The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing ( NASCAR) is the largest sanctioning body of Stock cars in the United States. ESPN National Hockey Night was ESPN 's weekly television broadcasts of National Hockey League regular season games and coverage of playoff games broadcast

SportsNight

The first program on ESPN2 was SportsNight, a sports news hybrid featuring Keith Olbermann and Suzy Kolber. Keith Olbermann (born January 27 1959 is an American Sportscaster, news anchor, and Political commentator. Susanne Lesley Kolber (born May 14, 1964, in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is a football Sideline reporter, co- producer The debut was noted by Olbermann's statement at the beginning of transmission: "Good evening, and welcome to the end of my career. " Several notable ESPN personalities debuted on ESPN2's SportsNight, among them Stuart Scott and Kenny Mayne. Stuart Scott (born July 19, 1965, in Chicago Illinois) is a sportscaster, most visibly as an anchor on ESPN's SportsCenter Kenny Mayne (born September 1, 1959) is a comedian and a Sports Journalist for ESPN.

Experimental broadcasts

In its early years, ESPN2 was used for some experimental sports broadcasts. On September 18, 1994, ESPN covered the CART Bosch Spark Plug Grand Prix, and ESPN2 featured a live simulcast with an all on-board camera broadcast. Events 96 - Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated The year 1994 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 1994. Champ Car, was the name for a class and specification of cars used in American Championship Car Racing for many decades primarily for use in the Indianapolis The Firestone Indy 225 was an IndyCar racing event held at Nazareth Speedway from 1987 - 2004. ESPN2 featured several half-hour news programs focused on specific sports, such as NFL 2Night (football), NHL 2Night (hockey), and RPM 2Night (auto racing). NFL Live is a National Football League studio show currently airing Tuesday through Friday at 400 p The National Football League ( NFL) is the largest professional American football league. NHL 2Night was a TV show that had highlights of National Hockey League games five nights a week on ESPN2. The National Hockey League ( NHL) is a professional Ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America RPM2Night was an American nightly news program seen on ESPN2 that was devoted entirely to Motorsports. Auto racing (also known as automobile racing, motor racing or car racing) is a Motorsport involving Racing Cars It In 1995, ESPN2 debuted a sports news ticker, dubbed the "BottomLine,"^[1] which was present almost 24 hours a day, rather than just at the top and bottom of the hour as it has been done on ESPN. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 A news ticker (sometimes referred to as a "crawler" is a small screen space on News Television networks ESPN, originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American Cable television network dedicated to ESPN2's sports telecasts were also among the first to regularly use a scoring bug. A digital on-screen graphic (known in the UK and New Zealand by the acronym DOG; in the US and Canada as a bug; and in

Not a success

Though the "ESPN2 Attitude" was one of the main inspirations for launching the X Games, this format was, in an overall sense, not successful. The X Games is an annual event with a focus on extreme action sports The so-called MTV Generation was not interested in sports pandered to them in this way, and traditional sports fans were turned off by the youthful gimmick, and several cable companies still refused to include ESPN2 in their basic lineups. MTV ( Music Television) is an American Cable television network based in New York City. The channel was then reformatted.

ESPN2 since 2001

Beginning in 2001, ESPN2 began to offer much of the same programming as ESPN, often airing spill over programs from "The Mothership. " Graphics and announcer dress became nearly the same as ESPN, only using blue where ESPN uses red, plus the addition of the "2" at the end of the logo. The blue color scheme changed to red in 2007.

Programming

Sports events presented on ESPN2 tend to be alternative sports such as poker, billiards, lumberjacking, extreme sports and, more recently, drum and bugle corps. Poker is a type of Card game in which players bet on the value of the card combination (" hand " in their possession by placing a bet into A lumberjack or logger is a man who harvests lumber The term lumberjack is somewhat archaic having been mostly replaced by logger. Extreme sport (also called action sport and adventure sport) is a media term for certain activities perceived as having a high level of inherent Drum Corps International ( DCI) formed in 1972 is the non-profit governing body operating the North American drum and bugle corps circuit for junior corps However, in recent years ESPN2 has broadcast increasingly more mainstream sporting events, including the East-West Shrine Game, much of the 2006 World Baseball Classic, many Major League Soccer, and NCAA Basketball games, WNBA on Tuesdays and Arena Football League games on Mondays. The East-West Shrine Game is an annual post-season College football all-star game played each January since 1925 2006 Major League Baseball season|2006 Nippon Professional Baseball season Headline Event of the Year The 2006 World Baseball Classic is a surprise success The World Baseball Classic, sometimes abbreviated WBC, is an international Baseball tournament first held in March 2006. Major League Soccer ( MLS) is the top-flight professional Soccer league in the United States and Canada with 14 teams 13 in the U NCAA Basketball (known as World League Basketball in Europe) and Super Dunk Shot in Japan is a Basketball Video game which The Arena Football League (AFL was founded in 1987 as an American football indoor league. NASCAR Nationwide Series races on Saturday afternoons, and the Grand Slam Tennis tournaments the Australian Open, The French Open and Wimbledon. The NASCAR Nationwide Series is a Stock car racing series owned and operated by the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing. The four Grand Slam tournaments are the most important Tennis events of the year Tennis is a sport played between two players ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles) The Australian Open is one of the four Grand Slam Tennis Tournaments held each year The French Open ( Les Internationaux de France de Roland Garros or Tournoi de Roland-Garros) is a major Tennis tournament held over The Championships Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon, is the oldest Tennis tournament in the world and is widely considered as the most prestigious And beginning in 2009 the U. S Open

ESPN2's former flagship show, the morning sports/entertainment program Cold Pizza, achieved minimal success and saw several format and host changes. Cold Pizza is a television morning sports talk show that was shown on weekday mornings on ESPN2. In January 2006, it was supplanted by the TV simulcast of ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike in the Morning (which moved from ESPNEWS) and moved to a later time slot (10a-12n EST). January 2006: ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July The year 2006 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2006. ESPN Radio is an American sports Radio network. It was launched on January 1, 1992 under the original banner of "SportsRadio Mike and Mike in the Morning is an American sports-talk Radio show hosted by Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg on ESPN ESPNews (word origin grammatical blend of ESPN and News, spoken as "ESPN news" and trademarked as "ESPNEWS" In May 2007, Cold Pizza moved from New York City to the ESPN headquarters in Bristol, and was renamed ESPN First Take. May 2007 is the fifth month of that year It began on a Tuesday and 31 days later ended on a Thursday. The year 2007 in television involves some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2007. ESPN First Take, is a morning sports talk program on ESPN2 and ESPN2HD. In February 2007, NASCAR Now made its debut on ESPN2. February 2007 is the second month of the year It began on a Thursday and 28 days later ended on a Wednesday. The year 2007 in television involves some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2007. NASCAR Now is a NASCAR news and analysis show that debuted on February 5, 2007. To cover NASCAR news, updates, and stats. The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing ( NASCAR) is the largest sanctioning body of Stock cars in the United States. Plus, NASCAR Now has special 1-hour called a "roundtable" editions on Monday's.

In 2003, ESPN2 began broadcasting Major League Lacrosse games. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Major League Lacrosse is a professional outdoor Lacrosse league that is made up of teams within the United States. In March 2007, both agreed on a contract that will run until the 2016 season. [1]

Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith, a program that featured interviews with popular sports figures, had averaged extremely low ratings^[2][3], and had also faced several time slot changes, until it was finally canceled in January 2007. Quite Frankly with Stephen A Smith was a nightly one-hour Television show on ESPN2 hosted by Philadelphia Inquirer columnist and January 2007 is the first month of that year It began on a Monday and 31 days later ended on a Wednesday.

Every Saturday morning on ESPN2 is "Bass Saturday" where Bass Fishing programs are shown.

On-screen graphics

The "2" does not feature the signature stripe through the font like the other letters in the logo. ESPN's sports ticker, the "BottomLine", continues to run at the bottom of the screen, featured on all ESPN2 programs, whereas ESPN still only features the ticker during its highlights programs and at :18 and :58 on the hour during live game coverage. ESPN2 now appears in 89 million homes in the United States, eleven million fewer than ESPN. The word million In standard English, the -lli- in million is pronounced with an l-sound followed by a The United States of America —commonly referred to as the ESPN, originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American Cable television network dedicated to

Conversion to ESPN branding

On February 1, 2007, the sports-media blog Deadspin reported that ESPN2 branding will be soon dropped entirely, in favor of ESPN, for the channel's in-game graphics, similar to the current ESPN branding on ABC sports broadcasts. Events 1327 - Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Deadspin is a sports website owned by Gawker Media that claims to deliver sports "without access favor or discretion The ESPN2 brand would be retained only for identification between the two channels, such as in the BottomLine. ^[4] This change took place in full effect on February 12, 2007, as all on-air graphics (scorebox, transitional, mic flags, etc. ) began using the ESPN logo rather than the ESPN2 logo. Another, more subtle change was made to the BottomLine, which is now red like the version of the BottomLine used on the main network; as expected, the ESPN2 logo remained on the BottomLine to further distinguish ESPN and ESPN2.

Simulcasting

ESPN2 has also simulcast many games with ESPN, in ESPN Full Circle where each ESPN network (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU) carries a different camera angle or commentary of big college matchups. ESPN Full Circle was a presentation of a sporting event that airs on every ESPN network ESPNU is a Television channel that specializes in College Sports, and is produced by affiliated with and owned by parent network ESPN.

ESPN2 also simulcasts some ESPNEWS programming, often during local blackouts, and for a while provided a Sunday simulcast of ESPN Deportes' SportsCenter. ESPN Deportes is a Cable television and radio network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day in the Spanish language

ESPN2 also often carries SportsCenter on days where the regular ESPN broadcast is overrun by a longer than expected sporting event. SportsCenter is a daily Sports news Television show and the flagship program of American Cable network ESPN since the network Several times ESPN has carried a special entitled "This is Sportscenter" which was a live behind the scenes look into the making of Sportscenter. The show aired for 2 hours, including the lead up to the broadcast at 11pm. This showed how segments were planned, stories written, and guests readied for interview. The finished sportscenter would air live on ESPN2 while the behind the scenes feed would air on ESPN. This special has aired only twice, the last being in 2004.

ESPN2HD, a high-definition simulcast of ESPN2, was available for the first time nationwide September 9, 2005, via DirecTV. ESPN2HD is a cable television network owned by Disney that broadcasts 24/7 High-definition television (HDTV is a Digital television Broadcasting system with higher resolution than traditional television systems (standard-definition Events 1000 - Battle of Svolder, Viking Age. 1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. DirecTV (trademarked as "DIREC' TV' " is a Direct broadcast satellite (DBS service based in El Segundo California, USA, that was founded ESPN flipped the switch on ESPN2HD at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2005. The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES is a Trade show held each January in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is sponsored Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Both ESPN and ESPN2 carried ABC News coverage of the September 11, 2001 attacks. This article is about the American news organization See also ABC News (disambiguation ABC News is a division of American

ESPN2 also aired the men's basketball SEC Championship Game in 2008 to most of the nation, since a storm destroyed the initial site of the tournament, causing the schedule to be rearranged in conflict with CBS's coverage of the Big Ten Championship Game. The game was produced by CBS. In SEC territory, the Big Ten game appeared on ESPN2.

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