DISNEY/ABC, ESPN AND TIME WARNER CABLE SIGN LONG-TERM, WIDE-RANGING AGREEMENT TO CARRY A VARIETY OF VIDEO & DIGITAL SERVICES - Agreement Includes Several New Services for Subscribers, Including Disney Junior, ESPN3.com, ESPN Goal Line, ESPN Buzzer Beater and Expanded VOD Offerings

Release Date:09/02/2010

(BURBANK and NEW YORK) — Disney/ABC Television Group, ESPN and Time Warner Cable today entered into a long-term, wide-ranging agreement that will provide Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks cable customers the programming of ABC Family, Disney Channel, Disney XD, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNEWS, ESPNU, ESPN Classic, ESPN Deportes, and SOAPnet, as well as WABC in New York, KABC in Los Angeles, WTVD in Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville, WTVG in Toledo, and associated HD cable networks.  Subscribers will also have unprecedented digital access to online content and expanded Video On Demand services. 
 
This extensive and expanded rights package, Disney Media Network’s most expansive content agreement to date, provides for:

• The addition of ESPN3.com, ESPN's live sports broadband network, which will be available to all Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks subscribers who get ESPN.  ESPN3.com gives Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks fans a 24/7 online destination that delivers more than 3,500 live, global sports events annually as part of TV Everywhere.  This addition also gives Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks the rights to feature cleared content from ESPN3.com on its sports tier.

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