ESPN on FIFA World Cup 2022 Biss Key and Frequency
ESPN2 is an American multinational pay television network owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (which owns a controlling 80% stake) and the Hearst Communications (which owns the remaining 20%).
ESPN2 was initially formatted as a younger-skewing counterpart to its parent network ESPN, with a focus on sports popular among young adult audiences (ranging from mainstream events to other unconventional sports), and carrying a more informal and youthful presentation than the main network. By the late 1990s, this mandate was phased out, as the channel increasingly became a second outlet for ESPN’s mainstream sports coverage.
As of September 2018, ESPN2 is available to approximately 86 million television households (93.2% of households with pay television) in the United States.
| Channel : | ESPN 2 |
| Satellite : | TelStar-12V @15.0W |
| Frequency : | 12610 H 7555 |
| System : | SID: 0002 |
| Biss Key : | 4456 851F 3267 BC55 |
ESPN2 launched on October 1, 1993 at 7:30 p.m. ET. Its inaugural program was the premiere of SportsNight, a sports news program originally hosted by Keith Olbermann and Suzy Kolber; Olbermann opened the show by jokingly welcoming viewers to “the end of our careers.”[2] Launching with an estimated carriage of about 10 million homes, and nicknamed “The Deuce”,[3] ESPN2 aimed to be a more informal and youth-oriented channel than parent network ESPN, featuring a heavier emphasis on programming that would appeal to the demographic. The youthful image was also reflected in its overall presentation, which featured a graffiti-themed logo and on-air graphics.
