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The American, ESPN Announce 12-Year Media Rights Extension

TRANSCRIPT: Teleconference with Commissioner Mike Aresco and ESPN Executive Vice President of Programming and Scheduling Burke Magnus
VIDEO: Commissioner Aresco on the extension with ESPN

PROVIDENCE, RI, MARCH 27, 2019 – American Athletic Conference Commissioner Mike Aresco and ESPN Executive Vice President of Programming and Scheduling Burke Magnus have announced that The American and ESPN have reached agreement on a 12-year media rights extension beginning in 2020-21. ESPN has been the Conference's principal media rights holder for football, men's and women's basketball and Olympic sports since the league's reconstitution in 2013-14.