The Trifecta

The Trifecta was a one-hour programming block on ESPN of three twenty-minute sports news and information shows.

Format

The block, which originally consisted of Outside the Lines Nightly and two sport-specific programs, aired from April 5, 2005, to late in 2006 between midnight and 1 a.m. Eastern time. Occasionally SportsCenter will cut into twenty minutes of The Trifecta due to programming changes.

Depending on the sport, the following programs aired to round out The Trifecta: Baseball Tonight, NFL Live, College GameNight, and NBA Fastbreak. During the 2006 FIFA World Cup, World Cup Live, a nightly update of that soccer tournament, took up part of this block.

Cancellation

On July 24, 2006, Outside the Lines Nightly was moved to a daytime slot and renamed Outside the Lines First Edition. In the fall of 2006, ESPN quietly canceled The Trifecta. As of July 2007, the hour has been taken up by a 40-minute version of Baseball Tonight and a re-air of NFL Live that has been edited down to 20 minutes.

ESPN Inc.

Executives

U.S. networks

Linear TV	ESPN ESPN2 ESPNews Classic ESPNU Deportes Longhorn Network SEC Network

Part-time/Digital	ACC Network Extra ESPN on ABC ESPN3 College Extra Plus Goal Line

Radio	ESPN Radio Deportes Xtra

International

Brasil
- ESPN
- ESPN Brasil
- ESPN +
Caribbean
- ESPN
- ESPN 2
Indian subcontinent
- Sony ESPN
Japan
- J Sports
Latin America
- ESPN
- ESPN 2
- ESPN 3
- ESPN +
Oceania
- ESPN
- ESPN 2
UK
- BT Sport ESPN

Co-owned Canadian
sports networks

Ventures

Defunct ventures

ESPN West
Arena Football League (minority stake, 2006–2009)
ESPN Star Sports (equity stake, 1994–2013)
ESPN 3D (2010–2013)
ESPN America (2002–2013)
ESPN Classic (UK) (2006–2013)
ESPN MVP (2005–2006)
Grantland (2011–2015)
ESPN GamePlan (1992–2015)
ESPN Full Court (2007–2015)
ESPN PPV (1999–2015)

Sports broadcasting rights

Other properties

Notable personalities

Miscellaneous

Owners: Disney Media Networks 80% Hearst Corporation 20%

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