RIVERSIDE, California -- Americans living overseas want more sports. The American Forces Network listened and is giving it to them in a new 24/7 channel, AFN|sports2, which debuts June 1 at 9 a.m. central European time.
"Our last worldwide survey indicated viewers tune in to sports more than any other channel on AFN, and more than half of the several thousand emails and posts we get every year are from viewers asking us to air their team or sport more often," said AFN Broadcast Center Director Dave Gebhardt. "By converting AFN|xtra to AFN|sports 2, we're giving our audience an additional 80 hours of sports a week."
AFN|xtra had featured all sports on weekends and eight hours each weekday, but making the channel a 24/7 service gives AFN the opportunity to air many more live sporting events.
AFN|sports2 will continue to offer WWE and UFC programming. Popular shows now airing weekdays on AFN|xtra will move to other channels. Tosh.0 and At Midnight move to AFN|spectrum. Jimmy Kimmel Live and Late Night with Seth Meyers move to AFN|prime Atlantic and Pacific.
AFN wants to know what you think of the changes. Click on our feedback link at www.myafn.net or let your voice be heard on Twitter or Facebook using #AFNsports2.
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