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ESPNews (pronounced "ESPN News") is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between the Disney–ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company (which owns a controlling 80% stake) and the Hearst Corporation (which owns the remaining 20%). Known as ESPN3 in its planning stages and proposed as early as 1993, ESPNEWS launched on November 1, 1996 and originally focused on airing sports news, highlights and press conferences. Since 2010, the network has slowly become refocused to carry encores of ESPN's various sports debate and entertainment shows, along with video simulcasts of ESPN Radio shows, with press conferences now airing during the day on ''SportsCenter'' as the main ESPN channel has increasingly become news-based outside of live sports – rather than carrying recorded sports events. ESPNEWS has increasingly been used as an overflow network for programming conflicts on the other ESPN networks. ''Olbermann'' was also carried live on ESPNEWS on weeknights if sports coverage on ESPN2 overflowed into that program's regular time slot. As of February 2015, ESPNews is available to approximately 71,989,000 pay television households (61.8% of households with at least one television set) in the United States. ==Format and programming== ESPNEWS is typically offered on the digital tiers of U.S. cable providers, and is carried as a premium channel in some areas; satellite providers offer it on their standard package. Some regional sports networks that are not associated with Fox Sports Net had previously aired ESPNEWS during the overnight or morning hours to provide a pseudo-national sports report to their viewers, and to fill time that would otherwise be taken up by paid programming or other lower-profile programs, though as vertical integration has occurred with the sports networks now owned by Comcast (with NBC Sports) and Time Warner Cable, ESPNEWS programming has been dropped from these networks; however, its programming is still carried during the overnight hours on MASN2. If a national ESPN broadcast is blacked out in a particular market, the ESPN broadcast will usually be replaced by ESPNEWS. The network was formerly simulcast on ESPN during coverage of major breaking sports news before that network expanded ''SportsCenter'' into additional daytime slots in 2008; additionally, ABC's early morning newscast, ''America This Morning,'' previously ran a highlights segment rundown featuring sports news headlines and highlights of the previous night's sporting events presented by an overnight anchor for ESPNEWS. ESPNEWS's "bottom line" – a small rectangular area at the bottom fifth of the screen which displays sports scores – was formerly more in-depth than the versions used by ESPN's other networks. It contained not only scores, but also statistics and brief news alerts about the day's sports headlines. On November 11, 2006, ESPNEWS marked its 10-year anniversary; programming commemorating the occasion included a montage of highlights covering the past 10 years in sports, along with a broadcast of ''SportsCenter'' at 11:00 p.m. Eastern Time on that same day. Around that time, the network began airing ''SportsCenter'' on nights when sporting event telecasts on ESPN and ESPN2, such as college football or Major League Baseball games, were scheduled to overrun into the program's regular timeslots on ESPN and ESPN2's own sports analysis programs, which until 2010 would be the only incidences in which ''SportsCenter'' would be carried over to ESPNews. XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio both provide channels with audio simulcasts of ESPNEWS, with the network's television advertisements replaced with radio ads from each service. On February 4, 2008, XM rebranded its channel as "ESPN Xtra", and added radio programs from local ESPN Radio affiliates as well as the audio simulcast of ESPNEWS. The network switched to a near full-screen presentation in June 2010, with the network switching its BottomLine to the version used on all other ESPN networks in anticipation of the network's prime-time programming being rebranded under the ''SportsCenter'' umbrella title. In August 2010, telecasts of ''SportsCenter'' on ESPNEWS increased in frequency, now airing whenever ESPN or ESPN2 were unable to air the program due to scheduling conflicts, along with an afternoon expansion of ''SportsCenter'' to ESPNEWS's afternoon schedule rather than rolling ''ESPNEWS''-branded coverage, while ESPN and ESPN2 carry sports talk and debate programming. ''The Beat'' (a show showing pop culture and sports action to the tune of a beat) was shown while ''SportsCenter'' aired on ESPN at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time until its cancellation in July 2011, and replacement by a rebroadcast of the ESPN2 sports talk program ''SportsNation''. By early 2013, the only other programs featured on ESPNEWS were ''Highlight Express'' (a half-hour program showing the previous day's sports highlights, running from 10:00 p.m. at night to 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time in the afternoon), and the overnight soccer program ''ESPNFC Press Pass''. A program titled under the ESPNEWS brand was replaced by ''SportsCenter''. The network also airs programming under the ''College Football Live'' banner on Saturday afternoons during college football season, a whip-around program similar to ESPN Goal Line, which gives live look-ins to multiple college football games happening simultaneously. On June 13, 2013, ''Highlight Express'' was canceled due to low ratings and company-wide downsizing, leaving the overnight ''ESPNFC Press Pass'', produced primarily for ESPN International, as the only program on the network that was exclusively broadcast (within the U.S.) on ESPNews; that program was removed from the schedule in August 2013, after it was supplanted by a new ESPN2 program simply titled ''ESPN FC''). Additional runs of ''SportsCenter'' and other same-day airings of ESPN sports debate programming or the newsmagazine ''E:60'' now fill the network's schedule, along with encores such as ''Friday Night Fights'', as well as programming affected by sports-induced pre-emptions and overruns such as ''Olbermann'' during the US Open. The highlights and segment package for ''America This Morning'' came under the purview of the late-night ''SportsCenter'' team from Los Angeles from that day forward. 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「ESPNews」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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