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Originally Posted by Lew
The reason that they show American sports on ESPN as well as ESPN America is firstly that not all ESPN viewers can receive ESPN America (DTT viewers, for example) and secondly that for sports such as the NFL and NBA they only have the rights for the UK and Ireland and the version of ESPN America that we get also goes to several other countries where they don't have the rights.
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Then they should launch ESPN America Extra (HD) to avoid the licensing issues and also add much needed extra schedule space. Plus since only Sky Sports 1 & 2 are available on Freeview and BT, they have fans of pretty much every other sport (maybe except Rugby) left to satisfy, so launching all their channels on every platform would be a great decision in my opinion.
I'd love to see ESPN on Demand as well, they already have exclusivity on football highlights for mobile, so maybe it could happen.