ESPN Deportes

Infobox Network
network_name = ESPN Deportes
network_
country = United States
network_type =
available = National
owner = The Walt Disney Company (80%)
Hearst Corporation (20%)
key_people =
launch_date = 2004
founder = George Bodenheimer
past_names =
website =

ESPN Deportes is a cable television and radio network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day in the Spanish language. "Deportes" means "sports" in Spanish.

In 2007, the network began a daily English segment on the late edition of its American parent's SportsCenter, hosted by Michele LaFountain and several other personalities.

Carriage

ESPN Deportes is available on some cable systems including Comcast, Cox Communications, and Brighthouse Networks, as well as on Dish Network and DirecTV. Cablevision offers the channel to its digital cable subscribers. Time Warner Cable is expected to add ESPN Deportes sometime in 2007.

Other ESPN networks occasionally air commercials that ask viewers to call 1-800-DEPORTES or log on to the ESPN Deportes website (see below) to express their interest in adding the network to its lineup if it is not available to them.

Events and programs shown on ESPN Deportes

*Major League Soccer MLS Primetime Thursday
*UEFA Champions League
*Primera División de México
*2006 World Baseball Classic
*Major League Baseball
*Mexican Baseball League
*Mexican Pacific League
*Venezuelan Professional Baseball League
*Dominican Winter Baseball League
*National Football League Monday Night Football
*Mexican College Football
*National Basketball Association
*World Dominoes Championship
*Spanish language version of "SportsCenter"
*"Cronómetro", a show similar to "Pardon the Interruption"
*"Perfiles", a show similar to "SportsCentury"
*"NASCAR en ESPN DEPORTES"
*Fuera de Juego

Program in English

On July 9, 2006, ESPN Deportes temporarily broadcast in English during the eighth inning of the Sunday night telecast between the St. Louis Cardinals and Houston Astros. This happened because two of the redundant high definition encoder sets lost power and eliminated the English video and audio feeds in Houston, presumably due to a thunderstorm in the area. The only way a picture could be sent back to be transmitted from headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut through the satellite and to the viewers at home was to use the Deportes standard definition feed.

Despite the thunderstorm, the game continued because Minute Maid Park has a retractable roof and because power was never lost in the stadium.

ESPN Deportes on ESPN

In contrast to the Houston event, ESPN simulcast ESPN Deportes at the NASCAR Busch Series Telcel-Motorola 200 in Mexico City on March 4, 2007. This broadcast was planned as part of ESPN Full Circle.

ESPN Deportes on ESPNación

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External links

* [http://www.espndeportes.com Official Site]