Business
Dish Network is offering a new “skinny” bundle of about 50 cable channels that doesn’t include ESPN and some other sports channels, giving people who don’t care about sports a way to save money on TV without joining the ranks of “cord cutters.”
Aug. 4, 2016
Breaking up the cable-TV bundle won’t be easy.
April 20, 2015
Sports
Pac-12 to feast on new TV deal
May 4, 2011
Opinion
Verizon isn’t one of the biggest players in cable and satellite TV, but it picked what may be the most important fight in the industry this decade.
May 1, 2015
Company Town
The Walt Disney Co. finally unveiled its plan to offer an over-the-top video streaming edition of ESPN for the growing number of fans who want live sports — but not the big cable bill that a previous generation paid.
Aug. 10, 2017
Faced with the challenges of subscriber losses from cable cord-cutting and the changing ways young consumers are watching sports, it seems almost quaint that ESPN’s next big move is the launch of a new TV morning show.
March 30, 2018
Entertainment & Arts
ESPN and French Firms to Buy Sports Network: The European Community cleared the purchase of the European Sports Network, Europe’s second-largest sports television network, by Connecticut-based ESPN and two French companies.
Sept. 12, 1991
Sports media behemoth ESPN has been taking some tough knocks in the press and on Wall Street lately for losing cable subscribers to cord-cutting and laying off more than 100 editorial staffers.
May 16, 2017
Television
Wednesday’s TV highlights
Feb. 9, 2010
New 11-year pact also returns ABC to Super Bowl rotation as part of ESPN’s Monday night package.
March 18, 2021