ESPN

ESPN, formerly an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. It was founded by Scott Rasmussen and his father, Bill Rasmussen, and launched on September 7, 1979 under the direction of Chet Simmons, who was the network's first President and CEO (and later became the United States Football League's first commissioner).  George Bodenheimer is ESPN's current president, a position he has held since November 19, 1998; since March 3, 2003, he has been the head of ABC Sports as well, which has since been rebranded as ESPN on ABC (though ABC Sports still legally has a separate existence). ESPN's signature telecast, SportsCenter, debuted with the network and aired its 30,000th episode on February 11, 2007. ESPN broadcasts primarily out of its studios in Bristol, Connecticut; it also operates offices out of Charlotte, San Francisco, and Los Angeles which will open in 2009. The network is available in over 100 million homes in the United States and over 150 countries and territories via ESPN International. The name of the sport company was lengthened to "ESPN Inc." in February 1985.
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ESPN Plus is the popular name of ESPN Regional Television, which is an American television program syndicator. ERT is based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Until its purchase by ESPN, this sports package's syndicator was known as Creative Sports.ESPN Plus produces and syndicates the following telecasts: Big East Conference football and basketballBig 12 Conference basketballMid American Conference footballSun Belt Conference footballUniversity of Oregon football and basketball (select games)University of Kansas basketball (select games)ESPN Plus also carried Conference USA, Mountain West Conference and Big Ten Conference football and basketball games at one point, but no longer does. Broadcast rights to Conference USA football and basketball games not selected by ESPN are owned by College Sports TV. Broadcast rights to Mountain West Conference football and basketball games are owned by CSTV and are carried by Versus, CSTV and MountainWest Sports Network. As of August 2007, broadcast rights to Big Ten Conference games are now owned by Big Ten Network. This is pursuant to a joint venture between the Big Ten and Fox Sports announced on June 22, 2006.[1] 
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