January 13, 2020 (2020-01-13)(final program) June 30, 2020 (2020-06-30)(contractual sunsetting)
Goal Line aired during the regular season on Saturdays from 3:00 p.m. ET to approximately 11:30 p.m. It also ran throughout the playoffs as an alternate feed for Megacast coverage, usually as a "datacast" feed of extended data. The network was occasionally simulcast on ESPNews in the late afternoon or early evening when that channel was not carrying its own games. Bases Loaded operated during the early rounds of the NCAA Softball & Baseball Championship.
The channel formerly operated a third iteration of the service in the same channel space during the college basketball season known as ESPN Buzzer Beater, which broadcast on Wednesday nights and Saturdays from December to early March. In July 2017, ESPN announced that it had discontinued Buzzer Beater, in order to "shift resources to better position ourselves for the long-term". The Goal Line and Bases Loaded services were not affected by this change.[3]
The 2020 version of Bases Loaded would never occur, due to the coronavirus pandemic causing the cancellation of the 2020 NCAA baseball and softball seasons, including their associated baseball and softball tourneys; the cancellation was announced on March 12, 2020. One day after on March 13, Disney Media Distribution sent notice to providers that the network would be discontinued on June 30, 2020, with notice of it relayed to customers between late May and mid June.[4] The discontinuation was thought of as a foregone conclusion, as ESPN pushes viewers to its streaming service, ESPN+, which allows the customer the choice of following any ESPN/ABC-aired game at their own pace, along with overall network cutbacks of extraneous wireline networks and connected on-air staff. With no other programming to promote, the channel space merely carried a looping video of the ESPN logo and audio of the network's default NCAA championship theme in the background after March 13, until the network feed was quietly dropped at 11:59 p.m. ET on June 30, 2020.
Referencesedit
^Humes, Mike (September 3, 2010). "ESPN and Time Warner Cable Launch New College Football Live Cut-In and Highlights Channel – ESPN Goal Line". ESPN Press Room. Archived from the original on June 5, 2014. Retrieved April 24, 2022.
^Szalai, Georg (October 7, 2010). "FiOS inks carriage deal with Disney, ESPN". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 24, 2022.
^"ESPN Shutters One of Its Channels to Cut Costs". The Wrap. 19 July 2017. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
^. Letter from ESPN to the National Cable Television Cooperative. 13 March 2020. Archived from the original on 15 June 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to ESPN Goal Line & Bases Loaded.
January 01, 1970
espn, goal, line, bases, loaded, espn, goal, line, espn, bases, loaded, gametime, only, cable, channel, operated, espn, which, operated, from, start, 2010, college, football, season, until, 2019, college, football, season, channel, active, during, college, spo. ESPN Goal Line amp ESPN Bases Loaded was a gametime only cable channel operated by ESPN which operated from the start of the 2010 college football season until the end of the 2019 college football season The channel was active during two college sports seasons during college football season as ESPN Goal Line and through the NCAA Division I Softball Championship for college softball and NCAA Division I Baseball Championship for college baseball as ESPN Bases Loaded In both cases the coverage provided live look ins and analysis of multiple games in progress The coverage switched between games to show interesting defensive plays and scoring drives such as offensive teams entering the red zone football or with runners in scoring position baseball softball ESPN Goal Line amp ESPN Bases LoadedCountryUnited StatesHeadquartersBristol ConnecticutProgrammingLanguage s American EnglishPicture format720p HDTV OwnershipOwnerESPN Inc The Walt Disney Company 80 Hearst Communications 20 Sister channelsABC ESPN ESPN2 ESPNEWS ESPNUHistoryLaunchedSeptember 4 2010 2010 09 04 ClosedJanuary 13 2020 2020 01 13 final program June 30 2020 2020 06 30 contractual sunsetting Goal Line aired during the regular season on Saturdays from 3 00 p m ET to approximately 11 30 p m It also ran throughout the playoffs as an alternate feed for Megacast coverage usually as a datacast feed of extended data The network was occasionally simulcast on ESPNews in the late afternoon or early evening when that channel was not carrying its own games Bases Loaded operated during the early rounds of the NCAA Softball amp Baseball Championship At its launch the channel was made available to customers of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks systems 1 and became available soon after to customers of Verizon FiOS TV 2 In addition the channel is also carried on Dish Network Comcast Cox Communications Charter Communications Sling TV Cablevision Hulu and DirecTV During the network s downtime it would promote the next week or event that would air with a still card and a loop of ESPN s college football theme of the time as background audio cable providers were disallowed from using the channel space for other purposes The channel formerly operated a third iteration of the service in the same channel space during the college basketball season known as ESPN Buzzer Beater which broadcast on Wednesday nights and Saturdays from December to early March In July 2017 ESPN announced that it had discontinued Buzzer Beater in order to shift resources to better position ourselves for the long term The Goal Line and Bases Loaded services were not affected by this change 3 Officially the network s last program was the 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship on January 13 2020 when it again carried the DataCast channel for ESPN s Megacast coverage Contents 1 Network closing 2 References 3 See also 4 External linksNetwork closing editThe 2020 version of Bases Loaded would never occur due to the coronavirus pandemic causing the cancellation of the 2020 NCAA baseball and softball seasons including their associated baseball and softball tourneys the cancellation was announced on March 12 2020 One day after on March 13 Disney Media Distribution sent notice to providers that the network would be discontinued on June 30 2020 with notice of it relayed to customers between late May and mid June 4 The discontinuation was thought of as a foregone conclusion as ESPN pushes viewers to its streaming service ESPN which allows the customer the choice of following any ESPN ABC aired game at their own pace along with overall network cutbacks of extraneous wireline networks and connected on air staff With no other programming to promote the channel space merely carried a looping video of the ESPN logo and audio of the network s default NCAA championship theme in the background after March 13 until the network feed was quietly dropped at 11 59 p m ET on June 30 2020 References edit Humes Mike September 3 2010 ESPN and Time Warner Cable Launch New College Football Live Cut In and Highlights Channel ESPN Goal Line ESPN Press Room Archived from the original on June 5 2014 Retrieved April 24 2022 Szalai Georg October 7 2010 FiOS inks carriage deal with Disney ESPN The Hollywood Reporter Retrieved April 24 2022 ESPN Shutters One of Its Channels to Cut Costs The Wrap 19 July 2017 Retrieved 24 July 2017 Re Notice of Discontinuation of ESPN Goal Line and ESPN Bases Loaded Letter from ESPN to the National Cable Television Cooperative 13 March 2020 Archived from the original on 15 June 2020 Retrieved 15 June 2020 See also editNFL RedZone a similar channel operated by the NFL NetworkExternal links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to ESPN Goal Line amp Bases Loaded Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title ESPN Goal Line 26 Bases Loaded amp oldid 1216668365, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
