Time Warner Cable Adds ESPN Deportes In NY

Time Warner Cable has added Spanish-language ESPN Deportes to its New York cable channel lineups.

The channel will be added to the cable system Oct. 15 adjacent to other ESPN networks on its digital basic tier, with a free preview beginning Sept. 15.

That adds another 1 million NeW York and New Jersey digital households to ESPN Deportes home count, which is now around 5 million according to the company, with a bout 3.7 million of those U.S. Hispanic households.

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Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.