ESPN
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| 2025 | ESPN and ABC gain broadcasting rights to TNT Sports' Inside the NBA through a sublicensing agreement with Warner Bros. Discovery. |
| May 2025 | ESPN announced plans to launch an ESPN-branded direct-to-consumer streaming product later in the year, incorporating main channels and ESPN+ content. |
| 2025 | Shams Charania replaced Adrian Wojnarowski as NBA insider before the season. |
| 2025 | Marty Smith scheduled to report for the Stadium Series. |
| 2025 | Chris Pronger joins ESPN as a studio analyst. |
| April 25 2025 | ESPNU airs an NBA playoff game during Game 3 of the Indiana Pacers–Milwaukee Bucks first round series. |
| April 6 2025 | ESPN hosted the Women's Final Four Megacast with multiple viewing options, including main telecasts on ESPN and ABC, with Ryan Ruocco, Rebecca Lobo, Holly Rowe, and Violet Palmer providing commentary. |
| April 6 2025 | Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi hosted 'The Bird and Taurasi Show' during the semifinals on ESPN2 and the championship game on ESPN, providing unique commentary from their own concourse set with special guests. |
| 2025 | Peter Schrager starts his NFL programming role at ESPN. |
| 2025 | ESPN2 aired a special playoff edition of the 'ManningCast', hosted by Peyton and Eli Manning, which included a notable appearance by Bill Belichick, broadcasting live from their homes. |
| 2025 | For the National Championship game, ESPN introduces comprehensive Megacast coverage, including 'Field Pass with The Pat McAfee Show' on ESPN2, Command Center on ESPNU, and SkyCast on ESPNEWS, with the entire game available in 4K for multiple TV providers for the first time. |
| 2025 | ESPN and ABC simultaneously broadcasted the Monday Night Wild Card Game between the Vikings and Rams, featuring the regular Monday Night Football team of Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, Lisa Salters, Laura Rutledge, and Russell Yurk calling the game from Inglewood. |
| 2025 | ESPN Deportes provided a Spanish language broadcast of the game, further diversifying the viewing options. |
| March 26 2025 | ESPN was added to the ESPN hub on the Disney+ streaming service, further expanding its digital distribution in Australia. |
| 2025 | USA Network rebranded and began airing overflow sports programming sublicensed from TSN. |
| March 1 2025 | During the Auburn Tigers vs. Kentucky Wildcats NCAA Division I men's basketball game, ESPN experienced a broadcast truck generator fire at Rupp Arena, causing a power loss that knocked the game off the air. The broadcast was redirected to ESPNews, resulting in significant viewer frustration and social media backlash. |
| February 24 2025 | ESPN announces Richard Jefferson will remain with Mike Breen and Doris Burke for the rest of the season, and adds Tim Legler, Cory Alexander, Jay Bilas as game analysts, and Michael Grady as play-by-play announcer. |
| February 20 2025 | ESPN will air the final game of the NHL 4 Nations Face-Off tournament. |
| February 20 2025 | ESPN informed MLB that it would opt out of its current broadcast contract after the 2025 season, with MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred describing ESPN as a 'shrinking platform' and expressing disappointment in the network's declining MLB coverage. |
| February 13 2025 | ESPN will air the United States–Finland game during the NHL 4 Nations Face-Off tournament. |
| February 6 2025 | ESPN produced its first NBA game broadcast featuring an entirely African-American crew for Black History Month, with Mark Jones and Richard Jefferson as commentators and Lisa Salters as sideline reporter, covering the San Antonio Spurs vs. Atlanta Hawks game. Over 40 African-American employees contributed to the coverage. |
| January 20 2025 | ESPN received complaints after broadcasting a brief speech by President Donald Trump during the halftime of the College Football Playoff National Championship, shortly after his second inauguration. The network later released a statement defending the decision as a common practice for major sporting events. |
| 2024 | For SEC broadcasts, the SEC on ABC logo replaces the standard ABC logo on the BottomLine. |
| 2024 | ESPN acquired rights to air two MLB World Tour games in Seoul and one MLB Mexico Series game, and introduced new broadcast features like 'volumetric' replays and a win probability meter. |
| 2024 | ESPN broadcasts Wild Card Series across multiple games and networks, including ABC, with viewership ranging from 1.2 million to 4.0 million viewers |
| 2024 | Ray Ferraro returns to ESPN as a studio analyst after previously working with the network from 2002-2004. |
| 2024 | Stormy Buonantony joined as a rinkside reporter. |
| 2024 | Nick Saban and Stephanie White join ESPN, with Saban becoming part of College GameDay (football) and White joining NBA on ESPN. |
| 2024 | For the second consecutive year, Comcast, DirecTV, YouTube TV, and Verizon subscribers received a separate 4K SkyCam feed during the national championship game. |
| 2024 | ABC aired the main game feed for the first time since 2000, with ESPN's top broadcast crew of Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, Holly Rowe, and Bill LeMonnier calling the action. |
| 2024 | SEC Network aired the SkyCast option featuring commentary from Tim Tebow, Jordan Rodgers, and Roman Harper from SEC Nation. |
| 2024 | ESPN and ABC conducted a Monday Night Super Wild Card Game Megacast featuring the Eagles vs. Buccaneers, simulcast across multiple Disney platforms with Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, Lisa Salters, Laura Rutledge, and John Parry calling the game from Tampa. |
| 2024 | ESPN's 'Field Pass' option was hosted by Cole Cubelic with additional commentators Harry Douglas, Marty Smith, and Ryan McGee, concluding on ESPNEWS due to a prior commitment to the Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game. |
| 2024 | The MLB Little League Classic KidsCast program was sustained for the fourth consecutive year. |
| 2024 | ESPN launched a revamped version of MLB StatCast broadcast, replacing the previous KayRod Cast for select MLB telecasts. |
| 2024 | Russell Yurk began his role as rules analyst for NFL coverage on ESPN, bringing expertise to help viewers understand complex officiating decisions during NFL broadcasts. |
| 2024 | Jason Kelce began his role as a Monday studio analyst for NFL on ESPN. |
| 2024 | Cam Newton starts appearing on First Take |
| 2024 | Nick Saban joins College GameDay (football) as an analyst, adding his extensive coaching expertise to the network's football coverage. |
| 2024 | ESPN received praise for their breaking news coverage of Scottie Scheffler's arrest at the PGA Championship. |
| 2024 | Arda Ocal became an NHL reporter for ESPN |
| December 2024 | ESPN's association with CTV Specialty and Warner Bros. Discovery concluded at the end of December. |
| December 25 2024 | ESPN2, Disney+ and ESPN+ will feature a 'Dunk the Halls' alternative broadcast of the NBA Christmas game between the San Antonio Spurs and the New York Knicks, using Hawk-Eye and Sony technology to render a live animated version of the game set at Magic Kingdom, with Mickey Mouse universe characters cheering on the teams. |
| December 21 2024 | ESPN continues Megacast coverage with Tennessee-Ohio State game, introducing 'Field Pass with The Pat McAfee Show' on ESPN2, with Command Center shifting to ESPNU and SkyCast to ESPNEWS and SEC Network. |
| December 20 2024 | ESPN's Megacast coverage begins with First Round games, featuring the Indiana-Notre Dame game simulcast on ABC, with Command Center on ESPN2 and SkyCast on ESPNU. |
| December 20 2024 | ESPN accused of negative coverage during the first weekend of the College Football Playoff, with criticism of participating schools and fans making broadcasts unpleasant for viewers. |
| December 9 2024 | ESPN aired The Simpsons Funday Football, an animated broadcast of the Monday Night Football game between the Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys, featuring animated players in Atoms Stadium in Springfield. The broadcast was called by Drew Carter, Dan Orlovsky, and Mina Kimes, with Simpsons characters Lisa and Marge on the sidelines, and additional Simpsons characters voiced by Hank Azaria. |
| December 5 2024 | NHL games became available for Disney+ subscribers. |
| November 16 2024 | Warner Bros. Discovery reached a settlement with the NBA regarding TNT's coverage rights, and entered a sub-licensing agreement with Disney to broadcast Inside the NBA on ESPN and ABC starting in the 2025-26 season. |
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