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LONDON: U.S. cable network ESPN Inc. said Tuesday it has agreed to buy London-based cable channel NASN Ltd. as part of its strategy to broadcast more American sports in Europe.
NASN, also known as the North American Sports Network, is the only European channel dedicated to North American sports.
ESPN did not reveal the terms of the deal with the channel's current owners, private-equity firm Benchmark Capital Europe and Setanta Sports Holdings Ltd., a sports broadcaster based in Ireland.
The deal will allow Disney to expand its ESPN operations in Europe, which are now limited to its ESPN Classic channel, a soccer Web site and a business that sells some sports shows to other European networks.
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Some great news there.
Cancelled my subscription after we lost things like NBA, NCAA etc which should be returning now to our screens.
Will wait and see mind but should be resubscribing to it if this happens as expected
ESPN Buys NASN
About bloody time. I read on another site a few months ago that one of the reasons NASN was getting so crap was because ESPN was asking for loads of money to buy the rights to their shows. Presumably that was to make NASN crap and lower its value to make a takeover easier. Omly problem now is that it won't be incuded in the Setanta subscription pack, which will cost me more money 
