ESPN’s National Football League coverage will have a completely new look during the 2014 season thanks to a state-of-the-art 9,000 square foot NFL studio that will debut this week with the three-hour kickoff edition of ESPN’s Sunday “NFL Countdown” pregame. The first show in the new studio airs at 10 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 7 – 35 years to the day of ESPN’s original network launch. Just down the hall from the new SportsCenter studio which debuted in June, ESPN’s Studio W in Digital Center 2 will be the largest studio on the company’s Bristol, Conn., campus. In addition to Sunday NFL Countdown, it will be the new home for all other ESPN NFL studio programs – NFL Insiders, NFL Live, NFL PrimeTime and Monday Night Countdown, etc. – beginning Monday, Sept. 8. The studio offers six different mini-set possibilities, plus additional standup areas. (Previously, all of ESPN’s NFL shows shared the same area in Studio E in Digital Center 1, along with other non-NFL programs, according to press materials from ESPN.) The press release from ESPN cited the following: Special features: a. 9,000 square feet of space – equivalent to half a football field (50 yards), making it the [...]
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