Some nice news for fans of the English Premier League living in the U.S.: ESPN sublicenses more EPL games to its family of networks.
ESPN reached an agreement for multimedia rights to Barclay's Premier League Soccer for the next three seasons. Up to 74 matches the next three seasons will air in the United States on ESPN2, ESPN Deportes, ESPN3.com and ESPN Mobile TV.
Last season, ESPN televised 46 Premier League matches under a sublicense from Fox Soccer Channel, which has been broadcasting the EPL in the U.S. since 1998.
ESPN's U.S. coverage begins Saturday with the Premier League opener, which has Manchester City at Tottenham, starting at 7:45 a.m. ET.
This is clearly a sign that ESPN had good responses from last season's small dose of EPL. Coming off the very successful 2010 World Cup, this is smart business from a company that doesn't usually show this amount of common sense.
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