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41-424: In 2019, Mediacom was announced as the naming rights partner via its Xtream brand. The city lost its investment-grade bond rating as a result of the project. The arena serves as the home court of the nearby University of Iowa's volleyball team. Developers had expressed interest in luring a USHL or ECHL franchise. On September 17, 2020, the city announced it had come to an agreement to host an ECHL team that

82-461: A French-language sister network to Réseau des sports (RDS) (which in turn, is a sister network to the English language TSN ), which maintains a sports news format and ticker similar to that used by ESPNews, and carries continuous broadcasts of Sports 30 (RDS's equivalent of SportsCenter ). Until October 2011, when RDS2 was launched, RDS Info was also used as a part-time secondary outlet for RDS in

123-592: A joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (which owns a controlling 80% stake) and Hearst Communications (which owns the remaining 20%). Known as "ESPN3" in its planning stages and proposed as early as 1993, the channel launched on November 1, 1996, and originally featured a rolling news format with 24-hour coverage of sports news and highlights. Since 2010, the network has largely shifted away from this format, and now primarily carries television simulcasts of ESPN Radio shows, encores of ESPN's weekday lineup of studio programs, and overflow event programming in

164-457: A 8.5% increase from the previous year period. Free cash flow during the same period also saw an increase by 31.1%. This positive cash flow was $ 418.9 million. Mediacom broadcasts local sports programming on its Connections channel, MC22 , along with a simulcast of ESPNews . Other sports channels on the Mediacom lineup as of September 2015 include NFL Network , Big Ten Network , SEC Network and

205-401: A half-hour segment of ESPN Radio programming on Sunday mornings. The broadcast includes three commentators (a retired coach, a retired player, and an analyst) to break down the events of the featured sport, while an on-screen graphical list of standings, statistical leaders, and other statistics of the featured sport is displayed, the upper-right of the screen shows sports highlights (usually of

246-469: A highlights segment rundown featuring sports news headlines and highlights of the previous night's sporting events presented by an ESPNews overnight anchor. The channel's BottomLine ticker was formerly more in-depth than the versions used by ESPN's other networks. It contained not only scores, but also statistics and brief news alerts about the day's sports headlines. However, in June 2010, the network switched to

287-868: A publicly traded firm, it went private in a $ 600 million transaction in March 2011 and is owned solely by Commisso as of 2011. Mediacom offers service in 22 states (per Mediacom employee as posted on workplace wall). About 55% of Mediacom's subscription base is in the 60th- through 100th-ranked television markets . It is the largest cable company in Iowa and second largest in Illinois. Examples of cities with Mediacom service include Albany , Columbus , Tifton and Valdosta in Georgia; Iowa City , Cedar Rapids and Des Moines in Iowa; Columbia , Jefferson City and Springfield in Missouri and

328-493: Is still carried during the overnight hours on MASN2 . If a national ESPN broadcast is blacked out in a particular market, the ESPN broadcast will usually be replaced by ESPNews. The network was formerly simulcast on ESPN during coverage of major breaking sports news before that network expanded SportsCenter into additional daytime slots in 2008, additionally, ABC 's early morning newscast, America This Morning , previously ran

369-717: The 2015 Stanley Cup Finals which was broadcast on NBC two days later. On July 14, 2015, Media General pulled its stations off of Mediacom cable systems across the United States due to a carriage dispute over retransmission consent fees. This carriage dispute saw Media General stations disappear from Mediacom lineups in 14 television markets across the United States and even three of the Fox affiliates owned by Media General were lost to Mediacom subscribers in Hampton Roads, Virginia , Terre Haute, Indiana , and Topeka, Kansas just before

410-963: The Quad Cities on the Iowa/Illinois border, and Baldwin City , Osage City , Lyndon , Douglas County , Osage County , and parts of Shawnee County in Kansas. Mediacom also serves outlying areas on the Florida Gulf Coast and around Minneapolis , Minnesota. In February 2017, Multichannel News reported that Mediacom was the ninth-largest multichannel video programming distributor in the U.S. with 828,000 video customers. Of 2.8 million "homes passed" (places where Mediacom service can be ordered), 44% have subscribed to basic cable with Mediacom, and 27.8% have subscribed to Mediacom Internet service. Of homes with basic cable, 54.8% also have "digital cable" service. Within

451-454: The ACSI, regardless of industry. In a survey conducted by Consumer Reports magazine in 2012, Mediacom is the worst cable provider in the country according to the 50,000 people polled. The September 28, 2012 edition of PC Magazine named Mediacom one of the nation's worst 15 fastest internet service providers. The Des Moines Business Record in its 2012 Best of Des Moines issue gave Mediacom

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492-475: The FCC has frequently neglected to address concerns regarding retransmission consent and blackouts of local television stations, particularly in rural areas, where residents have a more difficult time receiving an acceptable over-the-air signal. Commisso's proposal was for local broadcasters not to terminate a cable or satellite provider's carriage of the station's signal at the end of a retransmission consent agreement if

533-487: The HD feed, becoming the last ESPN network with a HD companion channel to make the conversion to a full-widescreen presentation. ESPNEWS HD was added to Dish Network on March 18, 2014, as part of a new carriage agreement that ended a four-year dispute that removed existing HD simulcast feeds of Disney-owned channels. While not operating under the ESPN name, CTV Specialty Television (which is partly owned by ESPN) operates RDS Info ,

574-1094: The K–12 range. The purpose of this program is to provide online access to children for educational purposes and to help close the digital divide, a key issue receiving attention from the FCC in 2019. On June 1, 2015, Mediacom subscribers in three television markets served by Granite Broadcasting Corporation stations were unable to view those stations over Mediacom cable due to a carriage dispute between Mediacom and Granite Broadcasting over retransmission consent fees. The affected Granite Broadcasting stations included WEEK-TV in Peoria, Illinois , KBJR-TV in Superior, Wisconsin / Duluth, Minnesota , and WISE-TV in Fort Wayne, Indiana , all three of which are primary NBC affiliates. On June 11, 2015, Mediacom and Granite Broadcasting reached an agreement, thereby restoring Granite stations to Mediacom cable systems. The agreement came just in time for Game 5 of

615-540: The Lines , Pardon the Interruption , and SportsNation . In March 2019, ESPNews premiered Daily Wager , a new weekday studio show devoted to sports betting . In August 2019, it was announced that Daily Wager would move to ESPN2 on August 20, 2019, and that a new L-bar featuring betting lines and other statistics would be displayed on ESPNews during non-event programming, and on ESPN2 during Daily Wager . The feature

656-510: The afternoon), and the overnight soccer program ESPNFC Press Pass . The network also airs programming under the College Football Live banner on Saturday afternoons during college football season, a whip-around program similar to ESPN Goal Line , which gives live look-ins to multiple college football games happening simultaneously. On June 13, 2013, Highlight Express was canceled due to low ratings and company-wide downsizing, leaving

697-467: The audio simulcast of ESPNEWS. In August 2010, telecasts of SportsCenter on ESPNews increased in frequency, now airing whenever ESPN or ESPN2 were unable to air the program due to scheduling conflicts, along with an afternoon expansion of SportsCenter to the channel's afternoon schedule rather than rolling ESPNews -branded coverage, while ESPN and ESPN2 carry sports talk and debate programming. The Beat (a show showing pop culture and sports action to

738-409: The channel's standard-definition feed. It utilized reworked HD sideline graphics, a descendant of the "Rundown" used on overnight editions of SportsCenter on ESPN, which wrapped around the top left and bottom of the widescreen picture. The HD Sideline offered the display of textual information, headshots, news and scores, while still delivering video highlights in the HD format. The enhanced format

779-471: The company's self-published 2019 financial report, Mediacom described itself as the "5th-largest cable operator in the U.S. serving almost 1.4 million customers". Counting basic cable , digital cable , high-speed data , and cable telephony as separate revenue, Mediacom had 2.981 million revenue-generating units (RGUs) at the end of 2009. Fifty-two percent of customers had at least two of video, Internet, and phone from Mediacom, and 18% had all three; over

820-601: The event of conflicts with ABC or the other ESPN networks. As of November 2023 , ESPNEWS is available to approximately 36 million pay television households in the United States—down from its 2013 peak of 76 million households. ESPNews is typically offered on the digital tiers of U.S. cable providers, and is carried as a premium channel in some areas, satellite providers offer it on their standard package. Some regional sports networks that are not associated with Fox Sports Networks had previously aired ESPNews during

861-511: The event of scheduling conflicts. It has since served as an occasional tertiary outlet for RDS programming, similar to the role now served by ESPNews. ESPN Star Sports (a joint venture between ESPN International and Star TV ) operated an Asian version of ESPNews that was launched in November 2009 in Singapore on Singtel 's Mio TV and later expanded to other areas, including Hong Kong, where it

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902-589: The national feed of the YES Network . Mediacom does not carry NHL Network , MLB Network or NBA TV . Mediacom Communications was acknowledged by CableFax for having the best COVID-19 response in the cable industry. Mediacom's Molli was named the 2019 winner in the category of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning at Cablefax's Technology Awards . Mediacom is believed to be the first telecommunication company to create an AI-based system fully integrated with customer service functions. Customers interact with

943-518: The newsmagazine E:60 now fill the network's schedule, along with encores such as Friday Night Fights , as well as programming affected by sports-induced pre-emptions and overruns such as Olbermann during the US Open. The highlights and segment package for America This Morning came under the purview of the late-night SportsCenter team from Los Angeles from that day forward. On November 29, 2017, as part of an expected announcement of 150 behind

984-660: The number of video subscribers, and among the leading cable operators focused on serving smaller cities and towns. The company has a significant concentration of customers in the Midwest and Southeast, and is the largest broadband provider in Iowa. Founded in 1995 by Rocco B. Commisso , the current owner of the New York Cosmos and ACF Fiorentina . Mediacom is headquartered in New York and incorporated in Delaware , United States. Formerly

1025-456: The overnight ESPNFC Press Pass , produced primarily for ESPN International , as the only program on the network that was exclusively broadcast (within the U.S.) on ESPNews, that program was removed from the schedule in August 2013, after it was supplanted by a new ESPN2 program simply titled ESPN FC . Additional runs of SportsCenter and other same-day airings of ESPN sports debate programming or

1066-420: The overnight or morning hours to provide a pseudo-national sportscast to their viewers, and to fill time that would otherwise be taken up by paid programming or other lower-profile programs, though as vertical integration has occurred with the sports networks now owned by Comcast (with NBC Sports ) and Charter Communications , ESPNews programming has been dropped from these networks; however, its programming

1107-536: The player or team of discussion), a fan comment board appears at the bottom of the screen, above the ESPNEWS BottomLine. ESPNEWS operates a high-definition simulcast feed, which broadcasts in 720p (the default resolution format for The Walt Disney Company's television properties) and was launched on March 30, 2008. Originally, the layout and graphics were reworked specifically for viewing on widescreen television sets, offering additional content not available on

1148-400: The previous five years, video decreased from 80% of Mediacom's revenue to 64%. According to a report published February 20, 2020, Mediacom's revenues were $ 2.0312 billion for the year ended December 31, 2019. This reflects a 3.8% increase from the prior year period. Additionally, OIBDA or "operating income before depreciation and amortization" for the same period was $ 806.4 million, which had

1189-565: The primary overflow network for situations in which ESPN and ESPN2 carry live sports coverage, with ESPNU , the ACC Network and SEC Network being limited to college sports overflow situations. Additionally, ESPNEWS simulcasted ESPN Deportes ' coverage of the 2018 Supercopa de España , the first time it has aired Spanish-language programming although the BottomLine ticker continued to be displayed in English. In 2007, ESPNEWS began broadcasting

1230-515: The program's regular timeslots on ESPN and ESPN2's own sports analysis programs, which until 2010 would be the only incidences in which SportsCenter would be carried over to ESPNews. XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio both provide channels with audio simulcasts of ESPNEWS, with the network's television advertisements replaced with radio ads from each service. On February 4, 2008, XM rebranded its channel as " ESPN Xtra ," and added radio programs from local ESPN Radio affiliates as well as

1271-458: The scenes staffs being laid off from the network, ESPN announced that the primetime SportsCenter editions carried in primetime on ESPNews would be terminated after November 30, 2017 to cut costs (breaking sports news coverage will be maintained when needed). They were replaced by a block of reruns of ESPN and ESPN2's daytime talk programs, including Around the Horn , Highly Questionable , Outside

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1312-508: The standard BottomLine and screen presentation used by all other ESPN networks in preparation for the launch of SportsCenter broadcasts. On November 11, 2006, the channel marked its 10-year anniversary, programming commemorating the occasion included a montage of highlights covering the past 10 years in sports. The network began airing SportsCenter on nights when sporting event telecasts on ESPN and ESPN2, such as college football or Major League Baseball games, were scheduled to overrun into

1353-519: The start of the 2015 Major League Baseball All-Star Game . On July 30, 2015, Mediacom and Media General reached a new agreement, thereby restoring Media General owned stations to Mediacom subscribers in the affected areas. On July 7, 2015, Mediacom filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission to limit or prevent blackouts of local broadcast stations during carriage disputes. According to Mediacom CEO Rocco Commisso,

1394-472: The station does not reach a minimum of 90 percent of its local viewers within its DMA either over-the-air or via its online stream. Commisso also made note of the fact that retransmission consent fees double every two or three years – something which never happens in any other industry. ESPNews ESPNews (pronounced "ESPN News," stylized ESPNEWS ) is an American multinational digital cable and satellite television network owned by ESPN Inc. ,

1435-701: The top award for Best Local Internet Service Provider and Best Company Use of Social Media. As reported in the Chicago Tribune , July 19, 2012, Mediacom was named by the FCC as one of the nation's top 4 Internet service providers when it comes to delivering advertised speeds to consumers. The February 2010 issue of Consumer Reports ranked Mediacom 15th of 16 in TV service, 24th of 27 in Internet service, and last of 23 in phone service, based on surveys. The deepening of this trend

1476-510: The tune of a beat) was shown while SportsCenter aired on ESPN at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time until its cancellation in July 2011, and replacement by a rebroadcast of the ESPN2 sports talk program SportsNation . By early 2013, the only other programs featured on ESPNews were Highlight Express (a half-hour program showing the previous day's sports highlights, running from 10:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time in

1517-497: The virtual assistant via SMS text. TMT Magazine awarded Mediacom Communications the 2018 Telecoms Award for Best Cable Operator & ISP in the United States. In 2016, Mediacom Communications was named the Nations Top Communications Provider by the leading industry publication CableFax. In a 2016 telecom report conducted by ACSI, Mediacom occupied last place in customer satisfaction among all companies in

1558-580: Was affirmed in the June 2012 issue of Consumer Reports , in which Mediacom was poorly ranked regarding TV service, phone service and bundled telecom services, and the third worst ISP only above the two satellite internet companies Wild Blue and HughesNet . Mediacom makes low-cost plans available by participating in the Connect2Compete program via the nonprofit group EveryoneOn. This program offers cost assistance for wired home Internet access to Mediacom footprint residents who have school-aged children in

1599-615: Was approved to begin play for in the 2021–22 season named the Iowa Heartlanders . They played their first game in the arena on October 22, 2021 against the Kansas City Mavericks . 41°40′52.9″N 91°33′45.0″W  /  41.681361°N 91.562500°W  / 41.681361; -91.562500 Mediacom Mediacom Communications Corporation is the United States ' fifth-largest cable television provider based on

1640-489: Was discontinued in June 2010 and the channel now broadcasts in near-fullscreen 16:9 , with regular gray-and-red graphics similar to those used by the other ESPN channels. The move was made to "accommodate the high number of SportsCenter s that moved to the network during the World Cup ." On May 20, 2012, ESPNEWS switched the presentation of its standard definition feed from 4:3 to a downscaled widescreen letterbox version of

1681-765: Was part of ESPN's partnership with Caesars Entertainment . ESPNEWS ran a simulcast of ESPN Radio 's Mike and Mike in the Morning from 2004 to 2005, the program moved to ESPN2 in 2006, although it still occasionally airs on ESPNEWS when live sports events (such as tennis' French Open or Wimbledon ) air on ESPN2. When ESPN2 televised the 2009 US Open tennis tournament, SportsNation aired on ESPNEWS instead from August 31, 2009 to September 11, 2009. As ESPN Classic 's carriage declined more into specialty cable tiers due to bandwidth conservation concerns and low viewership, along with no high-definition channel ever being established before its demise on December 31, 2021, ESPNEWS became

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