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| ABOUT ESPN REGIONAL TELEVISION |
Charlotte, N.C.-based ESPN Regional Television (ERT) is a television sports marketing, syndication, event-management and production company. A subsidiary of ESPN, Inc., ERT is the nation’s largest producer and syndicator of live sports programming, producing more than 1,000 sporting events annually, which accounts for more than 2,200 live and/or original hours of programming.
Formerly Creative Sports, ERT was acquired by ESPN on May 9, 1994, and was later combined with OCC Sports and renamed ESPN Regional Television in 1997.
The company has regional offices in Birmingham, Ala., Las Vegas, Nev., Albuquerque N.M., and Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. In addition, ERT has clearance and production offices in Ames, Iowa and Huntington, W.V.
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| WHAT ESPN REGIONAL TELEVISION DOES |
ESPN Regional Television (ERT) utilizes the term “ESPN Plus” to brand regional programming the company produces. The company’s efforts are divided into television production, college sports syndication, event ownership and corporate sponsorships/entitlement.ERT produces numerous events which are featured on many national and regional outlets including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN Classic, ESPN360.com, ABC, FOX Sports Net and most other Regional Sports Networks, along with hundreds of over-the-air television stations.
ERT also handles the primary production responsibilities for ESPNU, the
24-hour college sports television network.
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| ESPN REGIONAL TELEVISION PROGRAMMING |
To follow is a list of programming produced by
ESPN Regional Television (ERT):
• NCAA baseball/softball
• NCAA men’s basketball
• NCAA women’s basketball
• NCAA football
• NCAA lacrosse
• NCAA wrestling
• NCAA volleyball
• Home Depot College Football Awards
• McDonald’s All-American Game
• Skins Game and Champion Skins Game
• LPGA Tour Golf
• NHRA
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| ESPN REGIONAL TELEVISION AND SYNDICATION RIGHTS |
ERT retains the “local and regional” syndication telecast rights to the conferences below. These are in addition to any national over-the-air or cable rights the ESPN family of networks may own.
• BIG EAST (football and men’s basketball)
• BIG 12 (men’s basketball)
• Mid-American (football and men’s basketball)
• Sun Belt (football and men’s basketball)
• WAC (football and men’s basketball)
*For the BIG 12, ERT has regional rights only.
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| ESPN REGIONAL TELEVISION AND COLLEGE SPORTS SYNDICATION |
ESPN Regional Television (ERT) syndicates games to outlets throughout territories of its partner conferences, and is responsible for producing each of these telecasts and hiring the production staff, including the commentators. Combining its regional college football and basketball reach, ERT reaches 67.0 million homes, or 60 percent of U.S. households, and provides much of the inventory for ESPN’s out-of-market pay-per-view packages, ESPN FULL COURT (basketball) and ESPN GamePlan (football).
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| ESPN REGIONAL TELEVISION AND EVENT OWNERSHIP |
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ESPN Regional Television (ERT) also owns, manages, and stages a number of top sporting events. To follow is a complete list:
Basketball:
Anaheim Classic (www.AnaheimClassic.com)
Old Spice Classic (www.OldSpiceClassic.com)
O’Reilly Auto Parts Puerto Rico Tip-Off (www.PuertoRicoTipOff.com)
Pizza Hut Big East/SEC Invitational
O’Reilly Auto Parts All-College Classic
ESPNU Women’s College Basketball Invitational
Dick’s Sporting Goods Spartan Clash
ESPNU BracketBusters
Football:
Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl (www.ArmedForcesBowl.com)
ESPNU Invitational Series presented by ConocoPhillips
MEAC-SWAC Challenge (www.MeacSwacChallenge.com)
New Mexico Bowl (www.NewMexicoBowl.com)
Papajohns.com Bowl (www.papajohnsbowl.com)
Pioneer Las Vegas Bowl (www.lvbowl.com)
Sheraton Hawaii Bowl (www.SheratonHawaiiBowl.com)
Golf:
Champions Skins Game
ESPN National Golf Challenge presented by Callaway
Par-3 Shootout
Skins Game
Olympic Sports:
ESPNU Invitational Series presented by ConocoPhillips
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| ESPN REGIONAL TELEVISION Corporate Sponsorship/Entitlement Rights |
 
ERT markets and sells the entitlement and corporate marketing rights for the Big 12 Conference. The Phillips 66 entitlement of the Big 12 Basketball Championships is one of the longest running collegiate sponsorships in the country. Through ERT, the Big 12 has relationships with Chick-fil-A, Geico, ConAgra Foods, ConocoPhillips, Dr. Pepper/Sunkist, Gatorade, Geico, Mrs. Baird’s and XM Radio.
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| Contact for Media Inquiries/Interview Requests |
Jenny Zimmerman
407.566.2213
jennifer.j.zimmerman@espn.com |
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