Ray Stubbs joins ESPN

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Ray Stubbs joins ESPN

LONDON - Ray Stubbs is leaving the BBC after 25 years to host ESPN's live coverage of the Premier League.
Ray Stubbs joins ESPN

Stubbs will make his debut on ESPN on 15 August as Everton take on Arsenal with the channel's first live Premier League game of the season.

The sports presenter said it had been a ‘difficult decision' to leave the BBC but the opportunity of joining one the new ESPN channel in the UK was ‘too good to turn down'.

Philip Bernie, head of TV sport at the BBC, said: "Ray has been a fantastic member of the BBC Sport team for many years and we wish him all the best for the future."

ESPN secured the rights to 46 Barclays Premier League games for the 2009/10 season after the Setanta sports channel closed down last month.

The new ESPN channel where the games will be broadcast begins its football coverage on 15 August with the game between Everton and Arsenal, last season's 4th and 5th place finishers, at Goodison Park.

Other highlights from the coming season's possible title contenders include Liverpool v Aston Villa, Spurs v Man United and Chelsea v Blackburn Rovers.

ESPN plans to make its Barclays Premier League coverage widely available across multiple pay-TV platforms. As a first step to this distribution strategy, ESPN reached an agreement for its coverage to be retailed by Sky to residential and commercial customers. ESPN will appear in the Sky Guide at channel number 417 in SD and channel 443 in HD
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