Pay-television provider Dish Network has renewed a long-term deal to carry channels operated by the Walt Disney media company, including sports channel ESPN.
Under the multi-year deal, Dish will also offer the Longhorn Network and the SEC ESPN Network college sports channels plus the ESPNews and ESPNU channels and the ESPN Goal Line and ESPN Buzzer Beater services.
The ESPN Classic channel will be reintroduced as a video-on-demand channel on Dish.
In addition, Dish subscribers will have access to live and video-on-demand channel ESPN3.