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| 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 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. |
| 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 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. |
| October 2024 | Opening Night of the 2024-25 NHL season featured multiple broadcast teams: Bob Wischusen with A. J. Mleczko and Ray Ferraro for Chicago-Utah, Mike Monaco and Ray Ferraro for St. Louis-Seattle, and John Buccigross and Ryan Callahan for Boston-Florida. |
| October 2 2024 | During Game 2 of the American League Wild Card Series, ABC's broadcast experienced significant technical issues with poor and out-of-sync audio quality during the top of the 8th inning, produced by ESPN. |
| October 1 2024 | During Game 1 of the American League Wild Card Series between the Detroit Tigers and Houston Astros, ESPN's graphics department displayed incorrect player stats during at-bats, causing technical broadcasting errors. |
| September 30 2024 | During SportsCenter, ESPN baseball analyst Eduardo Pérez broke the news of Pete Rose's death to anchor Jay Harris at 7:16 p.m. ET, but the network did not formally air a segment about Rose until 7:34 p.m. ET, after spending time discussing Monday Night Football and Dikembe Mutombo's earlier death. |
| September 14 2024 | All Disney networks were restored to DirecTV's lineup, ending the carriage dispute. |
| September 7 2024 | DirecTV filed a complaint with the FCC, alleging Disney violated good-faith mandates by conditioning licensing agreements on waiving legal claims about Disney's anti-competitive actions. |
| September 1 2024 | The Walt Disney Company pulled its networks, including ESPN and ABC Owned Television Stations, from DirecTV due to a failed distribution deal, occurring just before a USC-LSU college football game and impacting ESPN's US Open tennis tournament coverage. |
| July 1 2024 | The Longhorn Network went dark when the University of Texas officially left the Big 12 Conference and joined the Southeastern Conference (SEC). |
| April 17 2024 | ESPN delayed discussing Jontay Porter's NBA lifetime ban for gambling policy violations, with Adrian Wojnarowski breaking the news on Twitter at 12:16 p.m. ET, but the network not formally addressing it on air until almost two hours later while airing The Pat McAfee Show. |
| April 7 2024 | ESPN hosted the Women's Final Four Megacast, featuring multiple broadcast options including the main telecast on ESPN with Ryan Ruocco, Rebecca Lobo, and Holly Rowe, and a special commentary show 'The Bird and Taurasi Show' on ESPN2 and ESPN, hosted by WNBA legends Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi. |
| March 9 2024 | ESPN repeated the NHL Big City Greens Classic with an animated broadcast of the Pittsburgh Penguins-Boston Bruins game, again simulcast across Disney Channel, Disney XD, Disney+, and ESPN+, featuring the same 3D animated style from the previous year's broadcast |
| February 15 2024 | Further channel renaming, with Fox Sports 2 and ESPN Extra becoming ESPN 5 and ESPN 6 respectively |
| February 14 2024 | ESPN was criticized for a delayed response to covering a mass shooting following the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl LVIII victory parade, first addressing the news on air at 3:57 p.m. ET, significantly later than CNN and FS1. |
| January 2024 | For the national championship game, ESPN revived the 'Field Pass with The Pat McAfee Show' on ESPN2, replacing the previous Film Room feed. Multiple viewing options were provided, including Command Center on ESPNU, AT&T 5G SkyCast on ESPNEWS, and 4K SkyCam for select providers. |
| January 2024 | Due to the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes, ESPN altered its NBA broadcasting schedule, replacing Wednesday NBA Doubleheader games on ABC with nightly college basketball games. |
| January 2024 | Reported advanced discussions between NFL and Disney for potential ESPN stake acquisition and NFL media rights transfer. |
| 2023 | ESPN collaborated with Omaha Productions to launch the NBA Unplugged with Kevin Hart Megacast, an alternate broadcast format featuring comedian Kevin Hart and the Plastic Cup Boyz analyzing NBA games in a unique style, similar to the Manningcast. |
| 2023 | The MLB Little League Classic KidsCast program was repeated for another year. |
| 2023 | ESPN introduced a new marching band camera feed for the College Football Playoff semifinals, expanding their Megacast coverage options. |
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