ESPN Deportes Acquires Venezuelan Baseball

NEW YORK, November 3: ESPN Deportes, ESPN’s Spanish-language
service in the U.S., has reached a deal to carry winter league baseball from
Venezuela for the first time.

The deal with the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League
grants ESPN Deportes the exclusive rights across all platforms. Under the terms
of the agreement, ESPN Deportes will air one regular-season game per week, plus
selected playoff games and coverage of the Championship Series. The agreement
also grants opportunities involving ESPN Deportes' multimedia assets, including
ESPN Deportes Radio and ESPNdeportes.com.

“We have significantly enhanced the offering of our winter
baseball programming line-up which already includes winter baseball from the
Dominican Republic and Mexico,” commented Lino Garcia, the GM of ESPN Deportes.
“Through this agreement, one network, ESPN Deportes, will now feature three of
the four Caribbean winter leagues for fans in the U.S. Adding Venezuelan
baseball gives ESPN Deportes a winter baseball schedule that is absolutely
second to none. We are also delivering a message to our viewers and affiliates
that for ESPN Deportes the baseball season doesn't end with the final out of
the World Series."