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ESPN Deportes
Country	United States
Availability	National
Founder	George Bodenheimer
Owner	The Walt Disney Company (80%) Hearst Corporation (20%)
Launch date	2004

ESPN Deportes is a cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day in the Spanish language. Deportes means "sports" in Spanish.

In 2007, the network began a daily English segment on the late edition of its American parent's SportsCenter, hosted by Michele LaFountain.

Contents 1 Carriage 2 Events and programs shown on ESPN Deportes 3 Program in English 4 ESPN Deportes on ESPN 5 External links

ESPN Deportes is available on some cable systems including Comcast, Cox Communications, and Brighthouse Networks, as well as on Dish Network. It is not available on DirecTV. Time Warner Cable is expected to add ESPN Deportes sometime in 2007.

Other ESPN networks occasionally air commercials that ask viewers to call 1-800-DEPORTES or log on to the ESPN Deportes website (see below) to express their interest in adding the network to its lineup if it is not available to them.

• UEFA Champions League
• Primera División de México
• 2006 World Baseball Classic
• Major League Baseball
• Mexican Baseball League (Liga Mexicana de Beisbol)
• Mexican Pacific League (Liga Mexicana del Pacífico)
• Venezuelan Professional Baseball League
• Dominican Winter Baseball League
• National Football League Monday Night Football
• National Basketball Association
• World Dominoes Championship
• Spanish language version of SportsCenter
• Cronómetro, a show similar to Pardon the Interruption
• Perfiles, a show similar to SportsCentury

On July 9, 2006, ESPN Deportes temporarily broadcast in English during the eighth inning of the Sunday night telecast between the St. Louis Cardinals and Houston Astros. This happened because two of the redundant high definition encoder sets lost power and eliminated the English video and audio feeds in Houston, presumably due to a thunderstorm in the area. The only way a picture could be sent back to be transmitted from headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut through the satellite and to the viewers at home was to use the Deportes standard definition feed.

Despite the thunderstorm, the game continued because Minute Maid Park has a retractable roof and because power was never lost in the stadium.

In contrast to the Houston event, ESPN simulcast ESPN Deportes at the NASCAR Busch Series Telcel-Motorola 200 in Mexico City on March 4, 2007. This broadcast was planned as part of ESPN Full Circle.

• Official Site
• Official ESPN Deportes Store

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