ESPN, FOX Sports detail broadcast plans amid coronavirus outbreak
By Adam Spencer
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The outbreak of COVID-19 has shut down every major sports league and has canceled several college tournaments this month.
With no sports on, what do the 24-hour sports networks like ESPN’s family of networks and FOX Sports do?
Well, it looks like it’s going to be a long month of old programming. According to John Ourand of Sports Business Journal, ESPN plans to air SportsCenter all day, with radio shows dominating the other networks:
ESPN Programming plans:
ESPN: SportsCenter all day and night
ESPNEWS: video simulcasts of radio shows (First Take, Your Take Radio and The Will Cain Show) and taped programming
ESPN2: simulcast a combination of ESPN and ESPNEWS.— John Ourand (@Ourand_Puck) March 12, 2020
For FOX Sports, no new studio shows will be filmed until at least March 20, so expect a lot of replays. You can see the schedule by clicking on the link in the tweet below:
FOX Sports statement on FS1 daily programming below.
Updated programming schedule for this weekend: https://t.co/dFWkLrD4XY pic.twitter.com/KwRW04wIKl
— FOX Sports PR (@FOXSportsPR) March 13, 2020
Buckle up, folks. It’s going to be a long month until we have live sports back in our lives.
Adam is a daily fantasy sports (DFS) and sports betting expert. A 2012 graduate of the University of Missouri, Adam now covers all 16 SEC football teams. He is the director of DFS, evergreen and newsletter content across all Saturday Football brands.
