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ESPN is expanding its sports betting footprint with Monday’s debut of Bet, a new half-hour program that will stream three nights per week on digital platforms. Bet, co-hosted by Joe Fortenbaugh and Tyler Fulghum, will originate from ESPN’s just-opened studio at The LINQ Hotel + Experience and will be available for live and on-demand viewing on the ESPN App and on ESPN’s social media feeds on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.
ESPN Dives Deep Into Sports Betting With Multiple Partnerships, New Digital Show By SVG Staff Monday, September 14, 2020 - 12:46 pm. With sports gambling becoming increasingly legal and common across the country, ESPN is moving to serve the demand with Daily Wager, a new one-hour news and information show about sports betting.
“Bet will allow us to connect with fans and drive the conversation in a way that leverages what we do best on social and digital platforms,” said Mike Foss, Senior Director, Digital & Social Video, Social Content, ESPN. “We have seen tremendous success and growth in our slate of digital shows in 2020. Bet will showcase an amazing new studio in The LINQ and we are tremendously excited about delivering a new live and interactive show core to our audience expansion priority.”
The debut episode on Monday will stream at 5:30 p.m. ET ahead of ESPN’s Monday Night Football doubleheader. On most Mondays, the program will stream at 6:30 p.m. and on Wednesdays and Thursdays, it will stream at 7:30 p.m. Times may vary due to events.
In addition to Bet, the ESPN Sports Betting YouTube channel will contain segments from Daily Wager, SportsCenter, and more content.
The launches of Bet and the YouTube channel continue to build upon a stable of ESPN sports betting-related content that dates back more than a decade, including:
- Daily Wager, daily sports betting news and information program on ESPN2
- Behind the Bets with Doug Kezirian podcast from Las Vegas
- Stanford Steve and The Bear podcast (football season)
- Betting news, discussion segments in signature shows (SportsCenter)
- “Bad Beats” on SportsCenter with Scott Van Pelt
- Bettor Days with Mike Greenberg on ESPN+
- Gambling and gambling industry coverage on ESPN.com for more than 10 years
Through a partnership with Caesars Entertainment, ESPN's studio at The LINQ will house gambling content creation for all platforms
At the sports media industry continues to wrap its arms around the potential financial boon that is the expanded legalization of sports betting, ESPN is the latest to debut a new video production studio in Las Vegas to produce sports betting-themed content.
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Located in The LINQ Hotel + Experience in the heart of the Vegas Strip, ESPN’s new studio is more than 6,000 square feet and includes three studios and features 12 cameras, including two exterior robotic cameras. It’s also notable in that it’s ESPN first studio built fully capable to support native 4K. It will launch in 1080p when it first hits air on Monday with produced segments for SportsCenter and select digital platforms.
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ESPN’s new studio in Las Vegas is the network’s first built fully capable of 4K. It will launch in 1080p.
“Our new studio with Caesars is ideally located in the middle of The Strip and has been designed and built out with state-of-the-art UHD 4K-capable technology, a first for ESPN,” Chris Calcinari, SVP of Remote Production Operations, ESPN & ABC Sports said in an official release on Monday morning. “We will leverage this technology and our innovative REMI production model to serve this growing audience of sports fans with the quality content for which ESPN is known.”
The studio is also designed around REMI (or “at home production” workflows as the studio does not have an accompanying control room on site. Instead there are 24 transmit and receive paths to ESPN control rooms and technical operations around the country, including the mothership in Bristol and the network’s Charlotte facility.
ESPN’s studio overlooks the Las Vegas Strip and will serve as the epicenter to all of ESPN’s sports-betting-centered content.
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ESPN is partnered with Caesars as its official sports book partner and will collaborate with the entertainment giant on various original content both centered around sports betting and other major sports events, like major boxing and UFC cards.
In addition, ESPN’s flagship sports betting show, Daily Wager, will move to the new LINQ studio full time. The show will return to ESPN2 from this studio with host Doug Kezirian beginning on Sept. 8 and airing daily at 6 p.m. ET. There’s also plans to launch a sports betting-themed digital show this fall that will originate from this studio.
“The appetite for sports betting content continues to grow among fans,” ESPN’s EVP of Content Connor Schell said in the official release. “Our new studio will not only operate as the headquarters for that content, but it will also anchor our year-round presence in Las Vegas – a city that has become a destination for the biggest events in sports. The LINQ studio allows us to meaningfully cover the lineup of major events on the horizon with our league partners like UFC and Top Rank, the NFL regular season with the Las Vegas Raiders – beginning with the Monday Night Football home opener on Sept. 21 – the Las Vegas Bowl, the NHL’s Vegas Golden Knights, NBA Summer League, and the rescheduled NFL Draft in 2022.”
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“In our ongoing mission to serve sports fans, we are committing to a bigger presence both in Las Vegas and with our content across platforms to authentically serve a fast-growing, highly engaged audience,” ESPN’s VP of Business Development Mike Morrison said in the official release. “We are incredibly fortunate to work alongside a great partner like Caesars Entertainment to achieve this and look forward to collaborating on more opportunities in the future.”