ESPNews

ESPNEWS is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between the Disney–ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company and the Hearst Corporation. Launched on November 1, 1996 and originally focused on airing sports news, highlights and press conferences, since 2010 the network has slowly become refocused to carry encores of ESPN's various sports debate and entertainment shows, along with video simulcasts of ESPN Radio shows, with press conferences now airing during the day on SportsCenter as the main ESPN channel has increasingly become news-based outside of live sports – rather than carrying recorded sports events. ESPNEWS has increasingly been used as an overflow network for programming conflicts on the other ESPN networks. Olbermann is also carried live on ESPNEWS on weeknights if sports coverage on ESPN2 overflows into that program's regular time slot. As of February 2015, ESPNews is available to approximately 71,989,000 pay television households in the United States.