History
ESPN was the original broadcaster for Arena Football games, showing games live in the league's first two seasons, 1987 and 1988. Partially because of turmoil within the league itself, ESPN did not broadcast Arena Football again until 1992, when they broadcast six games and the ArenaBowl on an overnight, tape delay basis. Starting in 1993, ESPN started showing games live or at least not during overnight hours. When ESPN2 was formed, the telecasts began to air more frequently on the new network.
ESPN2 began televising a more standard schedule of Arena Football League regular season and playoff games from 1995–1999.
ESPN subsequently began televising AFL playoff games from 2000-02.
It originally had aired the inaugural ArenaBowl live in 1987, while ABC (under the Wide World of Sports umbrella) aired the ArenaBowl five consecutive years from 1998–02.
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