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ESPN Launches Interactive Channel

By Richard Verrier

ESPN has launched a 24-hour interactive sports channel that allows viewers to call up sports news and scores through their remotes.

The new channel, called ESPN Today, is available to more than 2 million subscribers of Hughes Electronics Corp.’s DirecTV.

Walt Disney Co., which owns ESPN, is talking to several other cable and satellite companies to expand distribution of the channel, company officials said.

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DirecTV is the biggest U.S. satellite-TV broadcaster with about 10 million subscribers.

Wink Communications Inc. of Alameda, Calif., provided the interactive technology for the new channel.

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Richard Verrier

Richard Verrier is investigations editor for Arts and Entertainment at the Los Angeles Times. He has been with The Times since 2001 and has run our Company Town since 2016. After stints at the St. Petersburg Times and the Orlando Sentinel in Florida, Verrier joined the paper as a reporter, and for many years covered all aspects of the entertainment industry before turning to editing. He oversees the Company Town coverage while working to guide and edit investigative and enterprise reporting across the entertainment team, collaborating with writers and editors from all departments. He is a native of Montreal and a graduate from the University of Toronto and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

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