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ESPN Australia is a 24-hour sports channel offered in Australia and New Zealand. Initially, ESPN was known as Sports ESPN on the Optus Vision cable television system, and focused on sports aired by its home network in the United States, including American football, baseball, and basketball. In order to expand its local reach, it has shown an increasing amount of football games including La Liga (now on Fox Sports as of September 2013) in Spain, UEFA Champions League (shared with SBS), World Cup qualifying games, and Major League Soccer. Also on the network schedule are rugby matches and Cricket matches. ESPN Australia has also commenced showing locally produced content including Australian versions of ''PTI'' and ''SportsCenter''. They also air a soccer discussion show Monday to Friday called ESPNsoccernet PressPass which is hosted by Andrew Orsatti. On 1 March 2011 ESPN2 launched in Australia both in standard and high definition formats. ==History== It became available on Austar in April 1999, and Foxtel in September 2002. The broadcast of Jarryd Hayne's debut for the San Francisco 49ers in the National Football League on September 15, 2015 drew the network's highest ever audience with 116,000 viewers watching the game live, beating the previous audience record of 107,100 viewers for ''Super Bowl XLVIII'' in 2014. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ESPN Australia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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