Television channel
ESPN GamePlan
was an
out-of-market sports package
offering
college football
games to viewers throughout the
United States
.
GamePlan began on
Labor Day
weekend, and continued through the first Saturday in December. It included all regional telecasts on
ABC
, as well as games from various syndicators like
ESPN Plus
,
Raycom Sports
and SportsWest, and some local stations like
Allentown, Pennsylvania
's
WFMZ-TV
which broadcast locally-produced college football games. Viewers could watch games from their
cable
or
satellite
provider or on the
ESPN3
broadband
Internet
service.
Eventually, with carriage of
ESPN3
moving from computers only to
smartphones
,
tablets
and
digital media players
allowing access without any additional fees, GamePlan became a superfluous package, with only the few providers who refused to offer ESPN3 or where ESPN3 access was limited (for instance, rural areas) really able to compel viewers to use the service.
On August 28, 2015, the package was discontinued, along with
ESPN Full Court
, to make way for
ESPN College Extra
,
[1]
which offered a select bundle of games that would previously have been broadcast by GamePlan and Full Court.
[2]
[3]
History
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In 1992,
Showtime Event Television
supplemented ABC's airing of regional college football telecasts by creating "Option Play."
[4]
This allowed viewers to watch games not airing on their local ABC station via pay-per-view. The original cost for a single game was $8.95 (with each additional game costing $1 extra),
[5]
with the full "season-ticket" package priced between $49.95 and $69.95.
[6]
The following year,
ESPN
took over for Showtime and offered the purchase of up to three individual Saturday afternoon blocks for $8.95, as opposed to only a single game. In 1993, the package was renamed "Season Ticket", followed in 1994 by "ABC College Football on ESPN Pay-Per-View." In 1996, the name was again changed to "ESPN GamePlan", as the formation of
ESPN Regional Television
allowed for additional out-of-market games from conferences such as the Big Ten and MAC to be broadcast. ESPN would also pick up telecasts from other conferences such as the ACC, Big 12, Big East, Conference-USA, Mountain West, Pac-10, SEC and WAC for inclusion in GamePlan.
Schedule
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Up to 15 games were provided each week. Some games were joined in progress due to time and channel constraints.
In 2007, ESPN GamePlan picked up additional telecasts of the
Atlantic Coast Conference
and
Southeastern Conference
shown on
Comcast Sports Southeast/Charter Sports Southeast
. This change replaced
Big Ten Conference
games that left ESPN Plus for the new
Big Ten Network
.
Pricing
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1
Indicates the channel is still in existence, but currently operates as a basic cable channel.
2
Star Channel was part of
Warner Communications
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QUBE
interactive cable service, and was the precursor to present-day
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