ESPN Set to Take the Pitch for UEFA European Football Championship 2012

ESPN networks will combine to televise more than 200 hours of live coverage of the UEFA European Football Championship 2012 beginning June 8 and continuing through July 1, in eight cities across Poland and Ukraine.

ESPN Deportes, the company’s Spanish-language sports network, will lead the three television networks (ESPN and ESPN2) with 106 hours of programming featuring 27 live matches and four tape-delayed telecasts on concurrent match windows.

ESPN will present 22 matches and surround programming – pregame, halftime and postgame shows – totaling 62 hours, and ESPN2 will feature 33 hours of coverage with nine matches and surround programming, all live.

All 31 matches will be available in high definition and carried on ESPN3, WatchESPN, ESPN Deportes Radio, and 25 matches live on ESPN Mobile TV.  This will be the first time the UEFA European Football Championship will be available on ESPN Deportes HD.

This will mark the most comprehensive coverage of the three-week competition in the United States. In 2008, ESPN2, ESPN, ESPN Classic and ABC combined to present live all 31 matches of the UEFA European Football Championship.  ESPN Deportes, the Spanish-language home of the championship, also televised all 31 matches – five on tape-delay.

For the first time, ESPN match telecasts for the UEFA European Football Championship will include pregame, halftime and postgame studio segments.  The pregame segments will include the teams walking onto the pitch, the national anthems and ceremonial handshakes – all symbolic traditions of signature international soccer competitions.

  • ESPN/ESPN2:  Every ESPN and ESPN2 match will feature a 15-minute pregame, halftime and a postgame shows.   The opening and final matches will each have a 30-minute pregame program.  ESPN’s flagship news and information program SportsCenterwill air in-between matches on weekdays with two match windows.
  • ESPN Deportes: The Spanish-language home of the UEFA European Football Championship 2012 in the United States will provide the most-comprehensive coverage of the event with more than 6.5 live hours on days with two match windows, from June 9 to 15. Highlights include a 30-minute pregame show beginning at 11:30 a.m.; a halftime program; a 30-minute program aired in-between matches; and a special one-hour postgame edition of Fuera de Juego at 5 p.m. Daily coverage will be on ESPN Deportes SportsCenter at 6 p.m., Juego Cruzado at 7 p.m. and Cronometro at 7:30 p.m. On opening day, Friday, June 8, the pregame program will expand to one hour beginning at 11 a.m., and on Sunday, July 1, the title match will be preceded by a 90-minute pregame show.  (Note: On days with single match windows, coverage will begin at 2 p.m. ET)

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