5/18 – ESPN Announces New Fall Programming

ESPN’s weekday afternoon lineup for ESPN2 , beginning Sept. 12, which will showcase Numbers Don’t Lie, aimed at fantasy sports fans at 3:30 p.m. and Dan Le Batard is Highly Questionable, based in Miami, at 4 p.m. The series will be flanked at the front end by NASCAR Now and at the back end by Jim Rome Is Burning and Sports Nation, which is being moved into the 5 p.m. hour. ESPN X Games, which was established in 1995, will expand from a pair of events in the U.S. to a total of six, with four competitions scheduled internationally, beginning in 2013. ESPN will also journey with “Kenny Mayne’s Wider World of Sports,” in which the host will travel the world learning about regional sports, while introducing American games to the locals. Along with changes in “The Chase,” ESPN’s telecasts of the final 10 races of the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will feature “NASCAR NonStop.” The split-screen format will show the advertisement on the left side of the screen and the continuation of the racing action to the right.

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