But ESPN weren’t showing it in “that specific American region”
I was just saying that that is the area where people had an issue with not cutting off game early. The rest is happy to live with it.
I did not try to go off-topic there.
The Pro Bowl will now move to Wednesday of Super Bowl week, instead of Sunday the week after conference championships and before Super Bowl.
New schedule next year: Wednesday, February 4 at noon on ESPN. Coverage starts 10.30am AEDT.
The morning of Monday, February 2 can now be focused on hoops. E (presumably E) will have Bucks-Celtics, while ABC (presumably E2) will have Alabama-Florida and Oklahoma-Texas.
The OKC Thunder have once again, fell into 2OT for a second straight game, this time to the Pacers.
ESPN will stay with the OKC-IND game until conclusion and will join DEN-GS at second quarter (in US, start of game is on ESPNews)
Already “joined in”, small scorebug on the RHS that is.
Yet again, different host broadcaster this time.
Slight change to ESPN’s replay wipe.
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Oddly, the game still seems to be going out on both ESPN main and News.
Because the U.S. standard procedure (applies to all networks across the board, not consultingly) is that if a game has to be on an overflow network, that network can only drop out of that game during the first commercial break following the conclusion of the previous one (accompanied by an on-air announcement to switch).
History made today.
First-ever U.S. national broadcast window with both games going to overtime.
The absolute final buzzer will go off at 4pm AEDT as long as it doesn’t spill to 2OT.
I know ESPN doesn’t sub to OzTAM, but would love to see the reach/average/BVOD tomorrow if they do.
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For another year running, ESPN takes the MLB international feed for the 2025 World Series (LAD vs TOR)
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Mostly because…
They could bookend that feed with Fox’s studio coverage but likely does not have that option.
At least you can always tune to the radio feed for more outside gametime.
It was fun enjoying US authentic coverage until now… lol
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The first 
exclusive NBA games will be on Disney+ instead of ESPN because espn will be broadcasting game 3 of MLB World Series & MNF. So they have no space in their schedule for NBA.
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- Disney+ is still not an option to filter. That was just changed to avoid being misleading, I’d assume. Look forward to more nights like this.
- Linear will carry the most editorially relevant events of the day. NFL is always one of them, and any sport’s postseason should be given the linear treatment.
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Looks like the Disney+ broadcast is just what you can watch on league pass with the arena time out entertainment and half time entertainment etc. It didn’t even show the half time show.
MNF is just unwatchable today. Picture dropouts, Audio dropouts, just woeful.
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Tomorrow is the only other day in NHL (the other was Oct 11) with all 32 teams in action, called Frozen Frenzy. Games start every 15 minutes from 9.30-11.45am AEDT, then every half hour from noon to 2.00.
ESPN’s coverage plans include:
- Whiparound show, 9.00-10.30am ESPN2 (it will roll on until the time below, but does it matter?)
- Sharks vs Kings, 2.00pm ESPN
And that’s it. This is the day NBA wins and NHL gets relegated to D+?
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Well the NBA got relegated today so wouldn’t be fair to do it 2 days in a row
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You have a point. It was the perfect storm of a postseason matchup and the requirement that NFL must receive linear coverage when it’s happening.
In other news, that postseason matchup heading to the 18th inning for the first time since 2018. That marks the 3rd grandstand finish for ESPN in less than a week.
(The EPG had pushed back the endtime constantly since start of extra innings, until 4.15pm AEDT that is. It probably hit the limit there.)
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TOR-LAD G3 still going; 16th inning (as of 5:03pm AEDT) with ESPN still overruning.
It’s now the second longest WS game ever, could be on track to surpass the longest ever if it goes past 7 hours and 20 minutes back in 2018 of G3 (BOS-LAD).
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ESPN signing off at or close to 6pm AEDT with the t-longest postseason game in MLB history.
Coverage will resume 11pm on TV (E2) and continues on radio in the meantime.