SportsCenter, ESPN's flagship program, also continues to expand its reach, with hourly updates appearing during ABC sports programming, the debut of SportsCenter Minute on ESPN.com and new customized SportsCenters launching in Australia, Malaysia and South Africa. SportsCenter now appears in 14 international editions and in eight languages.
With 750 stations, ESPN Radio is the nation's largest sports network, and this year ESPN assumed direct management of owned stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas and Pittsburgh. ESPNRadio.com is the most visited and listened-to sports radio site in the United States, with two million unique users per month accessing general content, local affiliate Web sites and podcasts.
Sports fans in more than 300 million homes in 194 countries and territories receive local and worldwide events via ESPN's 34 customized television networks and content on its Internet, wireless, radio and publishing platforms. The popular X Games are staged in sites around the world including, Brazil, China, Dubai, Korea, Mexico, Spain and Thailand. In the year since the acquisition of the North American Sports Network (NASN), ESPN's first wholly owned live sports network in Europe, distribution increased from 15 to 32 countries and from six to 10 million homes. NASN's lineup, dedicated to American sports, features the NFL, MLB and NHL as well as college football and basketball. ESPN also acquired Cricinfo.com, the world's largest cricket Web site with more than eight million monthly unique users, and Scrum.com, a leading rugby Web site for one of the world's most popular sports. ESPNsoccernet.com, the world's leading soccer news and information site, is now available in five languages.
Top: ESPN's X Games 13, staged in Los Angeles, was the most-watched X Games ever.
Bottom: ESPN networks around the world televise a variety of premier soccer events.
