The Walt Disney Company has made a deal with Comcast in which Comcast customers can now access all of Disney’s channels from video on demand services and portable devices. Here are the channels that are included in the deal:
- ABC
- ABC Family
- Disney Channel
- Disney Junior
- Disney XD
- ESPN
- ESPN2
- ESPNU
- ESPN Deportes
- ESPNEWS
- ESPN Classic
- ESPN Goal Line
- ESPN Buzzer Beater
- ESPN 3D
- ESPN GamePlan
- ESPN FullCourt
- ESPN3
- And More
Let us know if you take advantage of this new deal between the Walt Disney Company and Comcast.
The Walt Disney Company has announced that there won’t be another ESPN The Weekend. The event was held at Disney’s Hollywood Studios this year and has been around since 2004, bringing athletes to Walt Disney World.
here is what Disney Sports Media Director Darrell Fry said about the cancellation of the event:
In order to focus our efforts on ESPN’s growing year-round presence at Walt Disney World Resort, we have decided to no longer host ESPN The Weekend. Moving forward, our focus will be on creating events like the new ESPN RISE Girls Showcase and the ESPN RISE Games, which provide a stage for tens of thousands of athletes from around the country.
Are you bummed out by this news?
The Walt Disney Company’s subsidiary ESPN has acquired the television rights to the Wimbledon tennis tournament for 12 years, beginning in 2012. NBC has had the rights to the tournament for 43 years. No details from the agreement were released, however we do know that ESPN and ABC Sports President George Bodenheimer is “thrilled.”
Are you a fan of tennis who tunes in every year for Wimbledon?
The Jonas Brothers’ softball team the Road Dogs will be challenging ESPN’s team the G.O.A.T.S (which stands for Greatest Of All Time). The game will take place on Friday, August 13th at the New Britain Stadium in Connecticut.
Tickets for the game are free, but donations are welcome. Any donations received will benefit the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center’s A Brighter Home campaign. You can get tickets at the New Britain Stadium Box Office beginning on Thursday, July 29th.
Below are the ESPN folks who will be participating in the event:
- Matthew Berry
- Mike Greenberg (“Mike and Mike in the Morning” and “SportsCenter”)
- Michelle Beadle (“SportsNation”)
- Marcellus Wiley (NFL Analyst)
- Eduardo Perez (“Baseball Tonight” analyst)
“NFL Live” host Trey Wingo will be doing the commentary for the game.
While the game doesn’t begin until noon, there will be pre-game entertainment beginning at 9:30am, which will include music from Burnham and Fyve.
Let us know if you plan to attend the event!
The ESPN3 online portal is a network for live sports programming and will be coming exclusively to Xbox 360. The portal will support instant sporting event replays, highlights and have polls at the touch of your fingertips or by the sound of your voice.
This sounds like an awesome interactive way for sports fans to get their news in a new and exciting way! What do you think?
