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January 14, 2007 |
<For Immediate Release> Little League's ESPN, ABC TV Presence Will Grow in 2007 At least 49 games in all eight divisions of Little League Baseball and Softball will be televised nationally each year starting in August 2007. That's a significant increase from the 43 televised last year, which is the current high. The U.S. and World Championship games in the Little League Baseball World Series will again be televised on ABC, with other games appearing on ESPN's expanding family of networks. In 2007, for the first time, all 32 games of the Aug. 17-26 Little League Baseball World Series in Williamsport, Pa., will be televised on ABC, ESPN or ESPN2.In addition, ESPN and ESPN2, as they have since 1997, will carry all eight of the U.S. Regional Championship finals in the Little League Baseball division. The two semifinal games and the World Championship game of the Little League Softball World Series (11-12-year-olds), scheduled for Aug. 9-15 in Portland, Ore., will be televised on ESPN or ESPN2. The championship games in other tournaments also will be televised on ESPN or ESPN2: Junior League Baseball (13-14-year-olds), at Taylor, Mich., Aug. 12-18; Senior League Baseball (14-16-year-olds), at Bangor, Maine, Aug. 12-18; Big League Baseball (16-18-year-olds), at Easley, S.C., July 28-Aug. 4; Junior League Softball (13-14-year-old girls), at Kirkland, Wash., Aug. 12-18; Senior League Softball (14-16-year-old girls), at Lower Sussex, Del., Aug. 5-11; and Big League Softball (16-18-year-old girls), at Kalamazoo, Mich., Aug. 13-18. The contract extension calls for more than 390 Little League Baseball and Softball tournament games to be televised nationally through 2014, which will mark the 75th anniversary of Little League's first season - 1939. | RE/MAX Valley Real Estate 1006 Boardman Canfield Rd Boardman, Ohio 44512 (330) 629-9200
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