ESPN Classic Sports Channel

ESPN Classic deals chiefly with sports and important sports events. It also airs documentaries and movies based on a number of sports. It also gives a facility to the spectators to know about personalities related to sports and their biographies. It also broadcasts the rerun of the well known world series or the Super Bowl with expert comments on the events.

ESPN Classic was set up in the year 1995 by Brian Bedol and Steve greenberg as the Classic Sports Network. It was later again named as ESPN which was partly i.e. 80% by Disney and 20% by Hearst in 1997. recently its logo consists of boxer which was also used by the Classic Sports Network.

In order to reduce the expenses ESPN Classic also highlights the programmes like sports which includes poker, bowling and bass fishing. It pays less importance to the airing of big events like National Basketball Association, National hockey league, NASCAR and other similar kind of games. In March 2007 a contract was signed between the league and ESPN in order to include Arena Football.

Various pro-sports games after being broadcast on the ESPN Classic were showed on New England Sports Network, SportsNet New York, YES Network, NBA TV etc. It is the one and only channel that shows infomercials between 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. ET. The programs are shown on all the seven days of a week.

Recently the programmes that are broadcast on the ESPN Classic channel are 60 Minutes on Classic, American Gladiators, ESPN Classic Remembers, Instant Classic and many more. It also deals with live shows. The first one was the implosion of the Seattle Kingdome in the March of the year 2000.

ESPN Classic was aired for the very first time on September 2006 and on that very day it taped the recording of UEFA Champions League soccer games at 5 p.m. ET. In the year 2007 it also aired the live telecast of the inaugration of the Champ Car World Series race held at the Assen race course in the Netherlands. The race that took place at the Zolder Circuit based in Belgium.

Deadspin.com on the 14th January 2007 stated that the ESPN Classic would stop broadcasting the original programms by them. The reason behind the ban was not clear but yet it was believed that those programmes were already directed. For the coming few months latest episodes of Missing Link, Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame and Ringside was broadcast as scheduled.

However Missing Link programme was discontinued on the ESPN Classic in June 2007. As a result the schedule productions of other two programmes was disturbed and was stopped. Later on July 29th it also recorded the ceremonies of the Baseball Hall of Fame induction. Wikipedia

ESPN Classic Sports Channel