<\/a>ESPN’s studio overlooks the Las Vegas Strip and will serve as the epicenter to all of ESPN’s sports-betting-centered content.<\/p><\/div>\n
ESPN is partnered with Caesars as its official sports book partner and will collaborate with the entertainment giant on various original content both centered around sports betting and other major sports events, like major boxing and UFC cards.<\/p>\n
In addition, ESPN’s flagship sports betting show, Daily Wager<\/em>, <\/em>will move to the new LINQ studio full time. The show will return to ESPN2 from this studio with host Doug Kezirian beginning on Sept. 8 and airing daily at 6 p.m. ET. There’s also plans to launch a sports betting-themed digital show this fall that will originate from this studio.<\/p>\n\u201cThe appetite for sports betting content continues to grow among fans,\u201d ESPN’s EVP of Content Connor Schell<\/strong> said in the official release. \u201cOur new studio will not only operate as the headquarters for that content, but it will also anchor our year-round presence in Las Vegas \u2013 a city that has become a destination for the biggest events in sports. The LINQ studio allows us to meaningfully cover the lineup of major events on the horizon with our league partners like UFC and Top Rank, the NFL regular season with the Las Vegas Raiders \u2013 beginning with the Monday Night Football<\/em>\u00a0home opener on Sept. 21 \u2013 the Las Vegas Bowl, the NHL\u2019s Vegas Golden Knights, NBA Summer League, and the rescheduled NFL Draft in 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cIn our ongoing mission to serve sports fans, we are committing to a bigger presence both in Las Vegas and with our content across platforms to authentically serve a fast-growing, highly engaged audience,\u201d ESPN’s VP of Business Development Mike Morrison<\/strong> said in the official release. \u201cWe are incredibly fortunate to work alongside a great partner like Caesars Entertainment to achieve this and look forward to collaborating on more opportunities in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the sports media industry continues to wrap its arms around the potential financial boon that is the expanded legalization of sports betting, ESPN is the latest to debut a […]\n More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":189436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8899,9248,33,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189435"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189809,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189435\/revisions\/189809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}