out-of-market sports package
In North America, an out-of-market sports package is a form of subscription television that broadcasts sporting events to areas where the events were unable to be seen by viewers on other broadcast and cable television networks due to the games no ...
owned by
ESPN, Inc.
ESPN Inc. is an American multinational sports media conglomerate majority-owned by The Walt Disney Company, with Hearst Communications as an equity stakeholder. For management and financial reporting purposes, the company is the main entity with ...
It was launched on September 5, 2015, as a merger of the existing
ESPN Full Court
ESPN Full Court was an out-of-market sports package in the United States that carried college basketball games. The package consisted of about 150 games annually, from the season tipoff in November to the first two rounds of the NCAA Women's Divis ...
and
ESPN GamePlan
ESPN GamePlan was an out-of-market sports package offering college football games to viewers throughout the United States.
GamePlan began on Labor Day weekend, and continued through the first Saturday in December. It included all regional telecast ...
, each of which offered
college basketball
In United States colleges, top-tier basketball is governed by collegiate athletic bodies including National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), the United States Collegiate Athleti ...
and
college football
College football (french: Football universitaire) refers to gridiron football played by teams of student athletes. It was through college football play that American football in the United States, American football rules first gained populari ...
broadcasts respectively.
ESPN College Extra broadcasts are drawn from the available live games from
ESPN3
ESPN3 (formerly ESPN360 and ESPN3.com) is an online streaming service owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (which operates the network, through its 80% controlling ownership interest) and Hearst Communications ( ...
. ESPN College Extra broadcasts college sports from
NCAA
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges ...
FBS and FCS conferences, including football, basketball, baseball, softball. The programming is across eight channels.
History
ESPN College Extra was announced by ESPN, Inc. on August 28, 2015, with launch date and its schedule. College Extra started broadcasting on September 5, 2015, at 12:30 p.m. with the Wofford vs. Clemson football game. At launch, the package was available on AT&T Uverse, Bright House Networks, Cox, DirecTV, select NCTC members, Time Warner Cable and Verizon FiOS.
Availability
ESPN College Extra is available with these cable and satellite providers:
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DirecTV
DirecTV (trademarked as DIRECTV) is an American multichannel video programming distributor based in El Segundo, California. Originally launched on June 17, 1994, its primary service is a digital satellite service serving the United States. I ...
(9/2015—
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Spectrum
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(9/2015—
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AT&T U-verse
U-verse TV is a DirecTV brand of IPTV service. Launched on June 26, 2006, U-verse included broadband Internet (now AT&T Internet or AT&T Fiber), IP telephone (now AT&T Phone), and IPTV (U-verse TV) services in 48 states.
* Verizon FiOS (9/2015—5/31/2022
* PlayStation Vue (8/2018— 1/2020)
* Hulu (9/2018— present)