ESPN Latin America

ESPN Latin America
Launched March 31, 1989
Network Cable Television Network
Owned by ESPN Inc.
(operated by The Walt Disney Company Latin America)
Language Latin American Spanish
Broadcast area  Argentina
 Bolivia
 Chile
 Colombia
 Costa Rica
 Dominican Republic
 Ecuador
 El Salvador
 Guatemala
 Honduras
 Mexico
 Nicaragua
 Panama
 Paraguay
 Peru
 Uruguay
 Venezuela
Sister channel(s) ESPN 2, ESPN 3, ESPN +
Website ESPN.com
ESPN Latin America logo from 1989 to 2002 and re-logo from 2006 to 2013. This logo still is used in the SD channels in the North Cone. Also is used in Brazil. It is expected that this logo to be replaced sometime in Brazil 2015.

ESPN Latin America is an ESPN channel that broadcasts in Latin America in Spanish, not to be confused with ESPN Deportes, which is another channel which broadcasts in the United States in Spanish. ESPN Latin America is not available in the U.S., because it is not authorized to air most of the programming seen on its U.S. sister channels due to television rights affecting the programs. It is adapted to the demands of Spanish-speaking viewers, who tend to prefer football and Hispanic baseball players to the more Anglo-centric programming or athletes and Portuguese-speaking viewers who also tend to prefer football and prefer other popular sports in Brazil like basketball, futsal and volleyball.

ESPN Latin America first aired in March 31, 1989. It cablecasts programs in Spanish; some of the programs are live or taped retransmissions of the sister channels ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes. Some of those programs include English-language audio on a second audio program (SAP) with commentators from sister channels of the U.S. or commentators who work just for the ESPN Latin America channel. One of the voiceover announcers who announces programming on TV commercials has also appeared as a voiceover substitute for CNBC programs like Kudlow & Company and Mad Money in the U.S.

ESPN Latin America, unlike its U.S. sister channels, has more programs related to football, such as live games from Spain's La Liga (available only for Spanish-speaking South America). It also airs live retransmissions of ESPN Sunday Night Baseball, the Home Run Derby, All-Star Game, Playoffs and World Series with Ernesto Jerez as the Spanish-language play-by-play announcer and other baseball commentators such as Venezuelan brothers Luis Alfredo Álvarez and Fernando Álvarez and former Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player Candy Maldonado. On weekday mornings at 9 a.m. Eastern Time, ESPN Latin America also airs the taped SportsCenter programs which air live the night before on ESPN in the U.S. at 1 a.m. ET.

Many of the TV commercials shown on ESPN Latin America are for companies from Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina and Brazil, where the largest companies are based and where viewer numbers are higher.

ESPN Latin America's main competitor is News Corporation's Fox Sports Latin America from Los Angeles (formerly called FOX Sports Americas), which, unlike ESPN Latin America (and like ESPN2 and ESPN+), has a FOX Sports Latin America Northern Cone channel for the Caribbean/Mexico baseball-focused region, and another channel called FOX Sports Latin America Southern Cone for Central and South America, which is more football-oriented.

The Disney/Hearst Corporation joint venture has also added some secondary regional channels for the Spanish-speaking Americas in the last few years, like ESPN Dos (North) for the Central America/Mexico region, and ESPN 2 (South) for South America (Argentina/Bolivia/Chile/Colombia/Ecuador/Paraguay/Peru/Uruguay/Venezuela).

In 2011 ESPN launched a new channel for Latin America: ESPN3. This channel is divided in four segmets: Live (broadcasts live coverage of sport events), Compact (resumed sport events), ESPN3.0 (extreme sports) and ESPN Series (featuring ESPN US show 30 For 30).

See also

Operating channels

Sport Events

List of the major events that can be viewed on ESPN Networks:

Football

Multi-sport events

Tennis

Basketball

Baseball

Boxing

College Sports

Cricket

Cycling

Equestrianism

Extreme Sports

Field Hockey

Golf

Gridiron Football

Horse Racing

Ice Hockey

Marathon

Motor Sports

Polo

Poker

Rugby

Weightlifting

Yachting

Personalities

ESPN North Cone (Mexico and Central America)

ESPN South Cone (South America)

  • Argentina Miguel Simón
  • Argentina Jorge Barril
  • Argentina Facundo Quiroga
  • Argentina Germán Sosa
  • Argentina Hernán de Lorenzi
  • Argentina Eduardo Caimi
  • Argentina Quique Wolff
  • Argentina Enrique Sacco
  • Argentina Alejandro Coccia
  • Argentina Pablo Ferreira
  • Argentina Javier Frana
  • Argentina Juan Ignacio "Juani" Guillem
  • Argentina Pablo Stecco
  • Argentina Mercedes "Mechi" Margalot
  • Argentina Marcelo Espina
  • Argentina Juan Pablo Alessandrini
  • Argentina Diego Monroig
  • Argentina Facundo Quiroga
  • Argentina Manuel Contemponi
  • Argentina Fabián Taboada
  • Argentina Diego Zorrero
  • Argentina Ignacio Meroni
  • Argentina Alfredo Conrad
  • Argentina Esteban Lasala
  • Argentina Tomás de Vedia
  • Argentina Carlos Irusta
  • Argentina Gaston Pezzuti
  • Argentina Guillermo Poggi
  • Argentina Javier Gil Navarro
  • Argentina Marcelo López
  • Argentina Mario Sabato
  • Argentina Martín Garrahan
  • Argentina Juan Marconi
  • Argentina Miguel Granados
  • Argentina Juan Szafrán
  • Argentina Esteban Lasala
  • Argentina Tony Pena
  • Argentina Alejandro Klappenbach
  • Argentina Gustavo Morea
  • Argentina Gustavo Sgalla
  • Argentina Jorge Birkner
  • Argentina Juan Ignacio "Juani" Chela
  • Argentina Nati Jota
  • Argentina Nicolás Hueto
  • Argentina Andrea Schettino
  • Argentina Alejandro Ruzal
  • Argentina Norberto Laterza
  • Argentina Victor Pochat
  • Argentina Rodrigo Villalonga
  • Argentina Martín Urruty
  • Argentina Fernando Carlos
  • Argentina Mariano Ryan
  • Argentina Agustín Álvarez
  • Argentina Martín Altberg
  • Argentina Matías Sánchez
  • Argentina Marcelo Durán
  • Argentina Diego Albanese
  • Argentina Hernán Castillo
  • Argentina Eduardo Simone
  • Argentina Leonardo Montero
  • Argentina Mariano Zabaleta
  • Argentina Maju Lozano
  • Argentina Mex Urtizberea
  • Argentina Mariana "Muni" Seligmann
  • Colombia Andrea Guerrero
  • Colombia Andrés Lacouture
  • Colombia Andrés Marocco
  • Colombia Camilo Castellanos
  • Colombia Carlos Valderrama
  • Colombia Fabián Vargas
  • Colombia Faustino Asprilla
  • Colombia Gerardo Bedoya
  • Colombia Germán Arango
  • Colombia John Jairo Trujillo
  • Colombia Jorge Bermudez
  • Colombia Luis Fernando Domínguez
  • Colombia Paulo César Cortés
  • Colombia Santiago Escobar
  • Colombia Sheyla García
  • Colombia Sigfredo Gómez
  • Colombia Wilder Marín
  • Italy Vito De Palma
  • Spain Gemma Soler
  • Uruguay Diego Muñoz

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