NEW YORK, June 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- ESPN and
ESPN Deportes team up for an unprecedented Olympic-style
production to deliver complete multiplatform coverage of the
2015 Pan American Games from Toronto, starting Friday,
July 10 at 7:30 p.m. ET with
the Opening Ceremony live on ESPN and ESPN Deportes.
The production comes to live across all English and
Spanish-language platforms with a state-of-the-art studio area in
the host city, with a backdrop of the iconic Toronto skyline, featuring multiple production
areas. The production will be led by a team of about 200 onsite,
including more than 25 on-air personalities, supported by an
in-studio team reporting from Bristol.
ESPN and ESPN Deportes' extensive coverage includes daily,
up-to-the-minute multimedia content and live broadcast throughout
the 17-day event. Together, the brands will offer more than thirteen ways to follow the Games:
ESPN Deportes TV will telecast about 200 hours of live
Pan Am Games content, dedicating 12 hours of live windows every day
starting at 10 a.m., featuring
soccer, swimming, diving, track & field, boxing, basketball and
gymnastics. The live telecasts will be complemented with news and
information programming throughout the day, followed by a nightly
edition of SportsCenter and a recap of the top highlights of
the day.
ESPN and ESPN2 will present live 66 hours. ESPN's
telecasts will kick off with the Opening Ceremony on Friday, July 10 at 7:30 p.m. – marking the
first English-language live presentation of the ceremony in 30
years – and wrap up with a five-hour live window on
July 26 for the closing day of the
Games, starting at 1:00 p.m.
Between July 11 – July 25, ESPN2 will present two to six hours of
daily live coverage focused on Men and Women's hoop and volleyball,
diving, swimming, gymnastics, boxing, track and field, and soccer.
The network will also present daily highlights of all medal winners
and the action across every venue.
Longhorn Network will present 44 live hours dedicated to
diving, swimming and Women's Volleyball. The network will follow
Team USA's performance in these
disciplines including some lifetime and rising Longhorns: In
diving, Texas head coach Matt Scoggin will be in Toronto along with diving rising junior Murphy
Bromberg, lifetime Longhorn Maren Taylor and rising senior
Cory Bowersox. In swimming, lifetime
Longhorn Jimmy Feigen will represent Team USA. In addition, lifetime Longhorns Lauren
Paolini and Rachael Adams will be
part of the Women's Volleyball team.
ESPN3 and ESPN Deportes+ will present over 650
live hours of programming that will include 249 sports events in
their entirety (210 in English and 39 in Spanish).
ESPN3 will carry 580 hours of Pan American Games
programming, with live access to almost every competition in more
than 15 different disciplines, including basketball, gymnastics,
swimming, diving, soccer, volleyball, karate, taekwondo, track and
field, and many others.
ESPN Deportes+, the Spanish-language broadband channel,
will carry an additional 90+ hours of live content, including the
complete broadcast of select men and women's soccer, basketball and
volleyball games. The channel will also feature medal final
competitions in artistic gymnastics, judo, swimming, taekwondo and
boxing.
Every Pan American coverage option
on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, Longhorn Network, ESPN Deportes and ESPN
Deportes+ will also be available through WatchESPN,
accessible on computers, smartphones, tablets, Amazon Fire TV and
Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, Xbox 360, and Xbox One
to fans who receive their video subscription from an affiliated
provider.
For the first time, ESPN Deportes Radio will offer live
play-by-play broadcast of select Pan American Game events,
including the complete men's soccer and basketball competition, and
select women's soccer matches and basketball games. These will be
complemented by daily programming dedicated to the Games such as
Al Despertar Panamericanos (6-9
a.m.), Zona Panamericana (12-2
p.m.), Destino Panamericano (7-9 p.m.), and Pan Am Express, an hourly
update on the latest news and information happening in Toronto.
ESPN Deportes Radio's coverage will also be available via
SIRIUS Satellite Radio, ESPN Radio app available on iPhone
and Android, and 24/7 audio streaming via
ESPNDeportesRadio.com.
ESPN Radio will also provide daily updates on the latest
news, information and results during SportsCenter. Coverage
will also include live reports from Toronto and interviews with athletes across
talk shows.
ESPNDeportes.com will offer a dedicated section for
the Games with daily news and information, video analysis, reports
and summaries around all sport competitions. Daily coverage will
include events recaps, Hispanic athletes' results, and post-event
interviews with medalists. Content will also include highlights and
the stories in anticipation of each day, medal count, and video
reports and interviews. In addition, there will be color notes
focused on Toronto, the villages, the
delegations' arrivals, marathon routes and Outside the Lines
stories.
ESPN.com's Bonnie D. Ford and Jim Caple will provide onsite coverage around
the Games for all digital platforms, including the dedicated Pan Am
section on the site. Ford's coverage will include an exclusive
feature on 12-time Olympic medalist Natalie
Coughlin that will also be featured on espnW. Other special
content will focus on U.S. boxing, basketball and soccer, as well
as Olympic qualifier events such as diving, field hockey and men's
water polo.
ESPN and ESPN Deportes' Social Media Channels will
supplement the multimedia coverage, engaging fans with the latest
news around the Games using the hashtag #PanAmXESPN and
#YoDigoPresente. With a social reporter onsite and supplemented by
video and images, ESPN Deportes' Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
will focus on daily results, top athletes and events of the day,
and a behind-the-scenes look of the Games and ESPN's onsite
production.
For detailed, daily schedules across platforms visit ESPN.com
and ESPNDeportes.com
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