Editing ESPNews (section)

==Format and programming==
ESPNews is typically offered on the digital tiers of U.S. cable providers, and is carried as a [[pay television|premium channel]] in some areas, satellite providers offer it on their standard package. Some [[regional sports network]]s that are not associated with [[Fox Sports Networks]] had previously aired ESPNews during the overnight or morning hours to provide a pseudo-national sportscast to their viewers, and to fill time that would otherwise be taken up by [[informercial|paid programming]] or other lower-profile programs, though as [[vertical integration]] has occurred with the sports networks now owned by [[Comcast]] (with [[NBC Sports]]) and [[Charter Communications]], ESPNews programming has been dropped from these networks; however, its programming is still carried during the overnight hours on [[MASN2]]. If a national ESPN broadcast is [[blackout (broadcasting)|blacked out]] in a particular market, the ESPN broadcast will usually be replaced by ESPNews.

The network was formerly [[simulcast]] on ESPN during coverage of major breaking sports news before that network expanded ''[[SportsCenter]]'' into additional daytime slots in 2008, additionally, [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s early morning newscast, ''[[America This Morning]],'' previously ran a highlights segment rundown featuring sports news headlines and highlights of the previous night's sporting events presented by an ESPNews overnight anchor.

The channel's [[ESPN BottomLine|BottomLine]] ticker was formerly more in-depth than the versions used by ESPN's other networks. It contained not only scores, but also statistics and brief news alerts about the day's sports headlines. However, in June 2010, the network switched to the standard BottomLine and screen presentation used by all other ESPN networks in preparation for the launch of ''SportsCenter'' broadcasts.

On November 11, 2006, the channel marked its 10-year anniversary, programming commemorating the occasion included a montage of highlights covering the past 10 years in sports. The network began airing ''SportsCenter'' on nights when sporting event telecasts on ESPN and ESPN2, such as [[college football]] or [[Major League Baseball]] games, were scheduled to overrun into the program's regular timeslots on ESPN and ESPN2's own sports analysis programs, which until 2010 would be the only incidences in which ''SportsCenter'' would be carried over to ESPNews.

[[XM Satellite Radio]] and [[Sirius Satellite Radio]] both provide channels with audio simulcasts of ESPNEWS, with the network's television advertisements replaced with radio ads from each service. On February 4, 2008, XM rebranded its channel as "[[ESPN Xtra]],"<ref>{{cite press release|title=ESPN and XM Satellite Radio to Launch 'ESPN Xtra' Radio Channel|url=http://xmradio.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=press_releases&item=1560|publisher=[[PRNewswire]]|via=[[XM Satellite Radio]]|date=January 28, 2008|access-date=January 28, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080503064951/http://xmradio.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=press_releases&item=1560|archive-date=May 3, 2008|df=mdy-all}}</ref> and added radio programs from local ESPN Radio affiliates as well as the audio simulcast of ESPNEWS.

In August 2010, telecasts of ''SportsCenter'' on ESPNews increased in frequency, now airing whenever ESPN or ESPN2 were unable to air the program due to scheduling conflicts, along with an afternoon expansion of ''SportsCenter'' to the channel's afternoon schedule rather than rolling ''ESPNews''-branded coverage, while ESPN and ESPN2 carry sports talk and debate programming. ''The Beat'' (a show showing [[popular culture|pop culture]] and sports action to the tune of a beat) was shown while ''SportsCenter'' aired on ESPN at 6:00&nbsp;p.m. Eastern Time until its cancellation in July 2011, and replacement by a rebroadcast of the ESPN2 sports talk program ''[[SportsNation (TV series)|SportsNation]]''. By early 2013, the only other programs featured on ESPNews were ''Highlight Express'' (a half-hour program showing the previous day's sports highlights, running from 10:00&nbsp;p.m. to 3:00&nbsp;p.m. Eastern Time in the afternoon), and the overnight soccer program ''ESPNFC Press Pass''. The network also airs programming under the ''[[College Football Live]]'' banner on Saturday afternoons during college football season, a whip-around program similar to [[ESPN Goal Line]], which gives live look-ins to multiple college football games happening simultaneously.

On June 13, 2013, ''Highlight Express'' was canceled due to low ratings and company-wide downsizing, leaving the overnight ''ESPNFC Press Pass'', produced primarily for [[ESPN International]], as the only program on the network that was exclusively broadcast (within the U.S.) on ESPNews,<ref>{{cite news |author=Gosselin |first=Kenneth |date=June 13, 2013 |title=ESPN Cancels Two Shows Aired From Bristol |url=https://www.courant.com/2013/06/13/espn-cancels-two-shows-aired-from-bristol/ |access-date=June 14, 2013 |newspaper=[[Hartford Courant]] |publisher=[[Tribune Publishing]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=ESPNFC Officially Launches With Premiere of ESPNFC Press Pass on U.S. Television|url=http://espnmediazone.com/us/press-releases/2012/08/espnfc-officially-launches-with-premiere-of-espnfc-press-pass-on-u-s-television/|publisher=ESPN MediaZone|date=August 15, 2012|access-date=July 31, 2013}}</ref> that program was removed from the schedule in August 2013, after it was supplanted by a new ESPN2 program simply titled ''ESPN FC''.<ref>{{cite web|title=ESPN to Launch Daily Soccer Studio Program|url=http://espnmediazone.com/us/press-releases/2013/05/espn-to-launch-daily-soccer-studio-program/|publisher=ESPN MediaZone|date=May 14, 2013|access-date=July 31, 2013}}</ref> Additional runs of ''SportsCenter'' and other same-day airings of ESPN sports debate programming or the newsmagazine ''[[E:60]]'' now fill the network's schedule, along with encores such as ''[[Boxing on ESPN|Friday Night Fights]]'', as well as programming affected by sports-induced pre-emptions and overruns such as ''[[Olbermann (TV series)|Olbermann]]'' during the US Open.<ref>{{cite web |date=June 13, 2013 |title=ESPN Cancels "Highlight Express" And "Unite," While Schwab, Hoenig Among Layoffs |url=https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2013/06/13/Media/ESPN.aspx |access-date=August 7, 2024 |work=[[Sports Business Daily]] |publisher=Street and Smith's Sports Group}}</ref> The highlights and segment package for ''America This Morning'' came under the purview of the late-night ''SportsCenter'' team from [[Los Angeles]] from that day forward.

On November 29, 2017, as part of an expected announcement of 150 behind the scenes staffs being laid off from the network, ESPN announced that the primetime ''SportsCenter'' editions carried in primetime on ESPNews would be terminated after November 30, 2017 to cut costs (breaking sports news coverage will be maintained when needed).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://awfulannouncing.com/espn/espn-sportscenter-anchors-contracts-layoffs.html|title=ESPN ending evening ESPNews editions of SportsCenter|last=Bucholtz|first=Andrew|date=29 November 2017|work=Awful Announcing|access-date=30 November 2017}}</ref> They were replaced by a block of reruns of ESPN and ESPN2's daytime talk programs, including ''[[Around the Horn]]'', ''[[Highly Questionable]]'', ''[[Outside the Lines]]'', ''[[Pardon the Interruption]]'', and ''[[SportsNation (TV series)|SportsNation]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Williamson |first=Norby |date=2017-11-29 |title=Evolving SportsCenter |url=https://www.espnfrontrow.com/2017/11/evolving-sportscenter/ |access-date=2017-12-02 |work=ESPN Front Row |language=en-US}}</ref>

In March 2019, ESPNews premiered ''[[ESPN Bet Live|Daily Wager]]'', a new weekday studio show devoted to [[sports betting]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-sports-betting-espn-20190311-story.html|title=ESPN launches 'Daily Wager' as sports betting goes showtime|last=Battaglio|first=Stephen|website=Los Angeles Times|date=March 11, 2019|access-date=2019-03-12}}</ref> In August 2019, it was announced that ''Daily Wager'' would move to ESPN2 on August 20, 2019, and that a new L-bar featuring betting lines and other statistics would be displayed on ESPNews during non-event programming, and on ESPN2 during ''Daily Wager''. The feature was part of ESPN's partnership with [[Caesars Entertainment Corporation|Caesars Entertainment]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bucholtz |first=Andrew |date=2019-08-15 |title=Daily Wager is shifting to ESPN2 and adding a Sunday show |url=https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/daily-wager-espn2-sunday-espnews.html |access-date=2019-08-15 |website=Awful Announcing |language=en-US}}</ref>

===Use as an overflow feed for live coverage===
ESPNEWS ran a simulcast of [[ESPN Radio]]'s ''[[Mike and Mike in the Morning]]'' from 2004 to 2005, the program moved to ESPN2 in 2006, although it still occasionally airs on ESPNEWS when live sports events (such as tennis' [[French Open]] or [[Wimbledon Championships|Wimbledon]]) air on ESPN2. When ESPN2 televised the [[2009 US Open (tennis)|2009 US Open]] tennis tournament, ''SportsNation'' aired on ESPNEWS instead from August 31, 2009 to September 11, 2009.

As [[ESPN Classic]]'s carriage declined more into specialty cable tiers due to bandwidth conservation concerns and low viewership, along with no high-definition channel ever being established before its demise on December 31, 2021, ESPNEWS became the primary overflow network for situations in which ESPN and ESPN2 carry live sports coverage, with [[ESPNU]], the [[ACC Network]] and [[SEC Network]] being limited to college sports overflow situations.

* The network aired two [[2013 National Invitation Tournament|National Invitation Tournament]] college basketball games on March 25, 2013 that were originally scheduled to air on ESPN, which instead aired an [[NBA]] game telecast between the [[Miami Heat]] and the [[Orlando Magic]] (a game in which the Heat extended its winning streak to 27 games).
* Another NBA overflow of the late game of that night's ESPN doubleheader aired partially two days later on March 27, 2013 due to ESPN2 already carrying coverage of the [[2013 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament]] until the first game on ESPN ended, with ESPN having an extended post-game show for the first game due to the Heat's aforementioned winning streak ending at the hands of the [[Chicago Bulls]].
* Coverage of the [[NCAA Division I softball tournament|NCAA women's softball preliminary tournament]] aired on ESPNEWS on May 18, 2013, due to NBA playoff coverage on ESPN and [[X Games|X Games Barcelona]] coverage on ESPN2.
* The network's most apparent overflow use has been with the [[NASCAR]] [[Nationwide Series]] in 2013. On April 26, 2013, ESPNEWS carried full live coverage of the [[Toyota Care 250]] at [[Richmond International Raceway]], due to NBA playoff coverage on ESPN, with the [[2013 NFL draft]]'s second night airing on ESPN2. The [[Kentucky 300]] on September 21, 2013 from [[Kentucky Speedway]] was also moved over to ESPNEWS due to college football games airing on both ESPN networks.
* On August 31, 2013, ESPNEWS aired three college football games, including the [[2013 Kentucky Wildcats football team|Kentucky]]–[[2013 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team|Western Kentucky]] game live from [[LP Field]] in [[Nashville]], presumably due to all other ESPN networks being fully booked for college games at that time. [[ESPN Goal Line]] also has been expanded onto additional cable systems through new carriage agreements struck by The Walt Disney Company in early 2013, making the Goal Line simulcast unneeded.
* ESPN's coverage of Wimbledon was often moved to ESPNews in [[2014 Wimbledon Championships|2014]] due to their coverage of the [[2014 FIFA World Cup]].
* ESPN's coverage of the Wisconsin v. USC Holiday Bowl was moved to ESPNews in 2015.
* ESPN's coverage of the northeast regional NCAA hockey tournament, due to the NCAA Women's basketball tournament on ESPN, NCAA baseball and softball on ESPN2 and NCAA lacrosse and other regional games of the NCAA hockey tournament on ESPN-U in 2018.
* Also due to live coverage on ESPN and ESPN2 of the NCAA Women's basketball tournament, ESPNews showed the rest of the day's Miami Open quarterfinal and semifinal coverage that was shown on ESPN2 before primetime coverage of the basketball tournament.
*''[[Olbermann (TV series)|Olbermann]]'' was also carried live on ESPNEWS on weeknights if sports coverage on [[ESPN2]] overflowed into that program's regular time slot.
* The network aired game 6 in the first round of the [[2018 NBA playoffs]] on April 27, 2018 between the [[2017–18 Toronto Raptors season|Toronto Raptors]] and the [[2017–18 Washington Wizards season|Washington Wizards]] due to ESPN airing coverage of the [[2018 NFL draft]] (which would later shift to ESPN2) and later airing another first-round game between the Indiana Pacers and Cleveland Cavaliers. Additionally, this game was also simulcast on [[NBA TV]] using the ESPN feed.
* In June 2018, it was announced that six [[National Women's Soccer League]] matches through the end of the [[2018 National Women's Soccer League season|2018 season]] would air on ESPNews, as part of its broadcast arrangement with fellow Disney/Hearst venture [[A&E Networks]] and [[Lifetime (TV channel)|Lifetime]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Goldberg |first=Jamie |date=June 6, 2018 |title=NWSL hopes moving games to evening slot on ESPNews will boost attendance, ensure player safety |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/portland-thorns/2018/06/nwsl_hopes_moving_games_to_eve.html |access-date=August 7, 2024 |work=OregonLive.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
* Game 3 of the semifinal round of the [[2018 WNBA Playoffs]] between the [[2018 Atlanta Dream season|Atlanta Dream]] and [[2018 Washington Mystics season|Washington Mystics]] aired on ESPNEWS due to a college football game ([[2018 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team|Western Kentucky]]–[[2018 Wisconsin Badgers football team|Wisconsin]]) on ESPN and the third round of the [[2018 US Open (tennis)|US Open]] airing on ESPN2. As with the Raptors–Wizards playoff game mentioned earlier, this game was also simulcast on [[NBA TV]] using the ESPNews feed including the BottomLine ticker which was displayed above their own ticker.

Additionally, ESPNEWS simulcasted [[ESPN Deportes]]' coverage of the [[2018 Supercopa de España]], the first time it has aired Spanish-language programming although the BottomLine ticker continued to be displayed in English.