WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Global Polo Entertainment, the entertainment and media subsidiary of USPA Global Licensing Inc. (USPAGL), has announced a landmark deal with ESPN. USPAGL manages U.S. Polo Assn., the official brand of the United States Polo Association (USPA), the governing body for the sport of polo in the U.S. This multi-faceted agreement will bring [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Park Min-seo, a 16-year-old South Korean baseball player, was featured on an ESPN telecast of a Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) game on Sunday, expressing her hopes of meeting a fellow trailblazer calling the action in the United States. Park, who in 2016 became the first elementary school girl to [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Eduardo Perez, a former major leaguer now working as a color commentator for ESPN, does not usually need a lot of sleep. But this spring, his sleeping schedule has been, in his own words, “obliterated,” because of his new assignment of calling live South Korean baseball games for the [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — After coming home from a hectic day at work, Patty Noakes likes to wind down by watching baseball on ESPN. But it is not just any baseball she is watching on the U.S. cable station these days. ESPN will be carrying six Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) games per week [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. sports cable giant ESPN will broadcast South Korean baseball games to its American audience, starting with the first day of the season on Tuesday. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) announced Monday that ESPN has struck a deal with Eclat, the Korean company with international distribution rights to [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. sports media giant ESPN was seeking free rights to broadcast South Korean professional baseball games, leading to a stalemate in its negotiations with its counterpart in Seoul, informed sources told Yonhap News Agency on Thursday. According to sources with knowledge of the talks, ESPN wanted to acquire rights [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. sports broadcasting giant ESPN has approached the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) about possibly airing South Korean baseball games to the American audience, informed sources told Yonhap News Agency on Tuesday. The sources added that ESPN, for the time being, is showing only some passing interest, and nothing [...]