I believe it's time for ESPN to rebrand ESPNEWS to ESPN3, as ESPNEWS shows a ton of live sports from college football to college basketball. We all know ESPNEWS used to be home to where you would get the latest updates on scores and sports news. But in this day and age it's not necessary.
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ESPN3 is already the name of their streaming portal. Perhaps ESPN4 ? 
ESPN3 is already the name of their streaming portal. Perhaps ESPN4 ?
No. ESPNews becomes ESPN3 and the current ESPN3 becomes ESPN4.
yeah, ESPN News is due up for it a long time ago. plus ESPN U should be rebranded to add more non-college sports content too.
here's how i would rebrand the ESPN Networks:
ESPN: ESPN 1
ESPN 2: the same
ESPNEWS: ESPN 3
ESPN U: ESPN 4
SEC Network: the same
ACC Network: the same (Network hasn't launched)
Longhorn Network: Big XII Network (only if University of Texas sells their half of the ownership of the channel to the Big XII conference, the very conference the Longhorns play in. if UT keeps ownership of their half of the network ownership, then no name change needed)
ESPN 3: Merges with ESPN+.
ESPN Classic: merges with ESPN+
ESPN Deportes (Spanish langue ESPN): the same.
ESPN+: the same, but everything streaming on ESPN 3 /WatchESPN is fully merged into it, the ESPN channels on Basic Cable is still able to stream free on ESPN+ as long as you have a paid TV provider account that is participating in WatchESPN, meanwhile the ESPN+ content that is exclusive to the service is still on a paywall, but there will be a 30 day free trial to access them.
ESPN on ABC: rebrands back to ABC Sports, but id's as ABC Sports, Powered by ESPN (retains all ESPN graphics but the ESPN logo is replaced by ABC Sports Logo, with the current ABC logo and the word Sports stylized like the ESPN logo)
here's how i would rebrand the ESPN Networks:
ESPN: ESPN 1
ESPN 2: the same
ESPNEWS: ESPN 3
ESPN U: ESPN 4
SEC Network: the same
ACC Network: the same (Network hasn't launched)
Longhorn Network: Big XII Network (only if University of Texas sells their half of the ownership of the channel to the Big XII conference, the very conference the Longhorns play in. if UT keeps ownership of their half of the network ownership, then no name change needed)
ESPN 3: Merges with ESPN+.
ESPN Classic: merges with ESPN+
ESPN Deportes (Spanish langue ESPN): the same.
ESPN+: the same, but everything streaming on ESPN 3 /WatchESPN is fully merged into it, the ESPN channels on Basic Cable is still able to stream free on ESPN+ as long as you have a paid TV provider account that is participating in WatchESPN, meanwhile the ESPN+ content that is exclusive to the service is still on a paywall, but there will be a 30 day free trial to access them.
ESPN on ABC: rebrands back to ABC Sports, but id's as ABC Sports, Powered by ESPN (retains all ESPN graphics but the ESPN logo is replaced by ABC Sports Logo, with the current ABC logo and the word Sports stylized like the ESPN logo)
That would give people a reason to watch the channel between the end of college baseball in early June and the start of college football in late August/early September, for sure. But what other sports content is out is available to ESPN to put on a channel that you'd give a name (ESPN4) that implies that it's only the fourth-most important network ESPN has? Bring back Rodeo from Mesquite, Texas, or Australian Rules Football and pretend it's 1982 again?
Why dilute your brand in this way? That would make it just one of four rather than the original "mother ship" ESPN.
ESPN3 content (exclusive live events and some replays of events that originally aired on one of the other ESPN cable channels) is also available free to viewers who have internet only through a participating provider, with a cable subscription unnecessary. That's been the case for years before the pay ESPN+ service was launched last spring. There has to be some way to differentiate that content from the stuff behind the paywall.
ABC's sports brand is ESPN and has been such for a long time. ABC is the entertainment and news brand. Why de-emphasize the ESPN? Nostalgia for the days of Howard Cosell and Jim McKay? Never a good reason, reeks of the fallacious baby boomer thinking that "Our childhoods were the best, our music was the best, our radio was the best, our TV was the best." At some point, you move on.
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More like C-SPAN 3, and yes there is such a channel. No shortage of hearings and speeches and talks about history and/or books to cover in DC!
It looks like ESPNEWS could be a standalone streaming channel like is done with CBS Sports HQ or a part of Watch ESPN.
If the Supreme Court opened to televised hearings, I bet you C-SPAN3 will be that channel for that and what's currently seen on C-SPAN3 will be moved to a new channel, C-SPAN4.
ESPNews was only relevant when they didn't air 12 hours of Sportscaster a day. Now that ESPN has become an afternoon of Sportscenter and ESPNews is just sports overflow does it serve a purpose. ESPNU will not have a purpose either once the conferences get dedicated networks. They lost the Big East contract to FS1, SEC has it's own network, ACC starts theirs next year. What's left for U? 24 hours of Cornhole?
Not all SEC games are on the SEC Network, and I'm sure the same will go for the ACC. ESPN still has rights to games from a lot of conferences, including majors, that can be spread over ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU. The U also gets a lot of women's college sports; there was an SEC women's game on last night. I don't watch the U a lot, but sometimes I just want to vegetate in front of the screen and watch a good, competitive game, no matter who's playing in it. Beats watching the highlights shows or talk shows for hours on end. Don't worry about ESPNU running out of college events to show, at least in-season. Summer is the big problem.
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ESPN 1,2,ESPNU,Deportes stays the same,ESPNNEWS because ESPN Radio TV so it's other Radio Shows can be on TV,same with the World Series the Radio Feed but with TV Cameros. ESPN4 is added as ESPN Plus and so is ESPN5 as like ABC with like PTI,Around the Horn,Sports Night,Sports Movies,Coach,Sports Game Shows and so on.
For the record, ESPN manages both the SEC and the upcoming ACC Networks. Notice the ESPN logo on those networks' logos? Yeah. So its not like ESPN-U will lose SEC or ACC or even some other (much smaller) conference coverage.
What are the ratings for the SEC Network once Football season is over. I can't see people watching the smaller sports in mass, or anything in the summer. I imagine the ACC Network will have a harder time.
I don't know about that...the ACC has a huge basketball program with multiple teams in the Top 25. I know a lot of those games are broadcast on the ACC network. College baseball is also very competitive.
Not to mention that monster ratings aren't what these super-focused sports channels are about. What matters is that they are imprinting the conference's brand on the viewers they do attract and that pays off down the road in merchandise sales, ticket sales, brand loyalty to corporations that sponsor SEC programming, etc. Don't forget, the games carried on the SEC Network are not the week's top matchups; they're a mix of games between also-rans, games between contenders and also-rans, and one-sided early-season glorified practices against the Alabama A&Ms and Libertys of the nation. The best games -- football and basketball -- still wind up on a big network. College baseball has always been niche, must like women's sports, but the conference network at least gives what fans there are a chance to see occasional games on TV instead of exploring streaming options or not having them televised at all.
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