15 Facts About ESPN Star Sports

1. ESPN Star Sports says Knicks officials were left with the impression that the 23-year-old would prefer to be traded.

2. ESPN Star Sports had not acknowledged the error as of late Tuesday night.

3. ESPN Star Sports kicked off the deal with a night full of classic fights and it peppered college football's national championship game with spots for UFC's arrival and the Brooklyn fights.

4. ESPN Star Sports has brushed off the low ratings, convinced it can offer the cross-platform exposure UFC needs to widen its fanbase.

5. ESPN Star Sports will raise the curtain on the octagon Saturday and air the first card of a $1.5 billion, five-year deal that will plaster UFC all over the sports network's various platforms.

6. ESPN Star Sports updated its scout report on Ball with his strengths, weaknesses and overall overview.

7. ESPN Star Sports is one of the few television networks with an all-digital infrastructure.

8. In 1992, ESPN Star Sports launched ESPN Star Sports Radio, a national sports talk radio network providing analysis and commentary programs as well as audio play-by-play of sporting events (including some simulcasted with the ESPN television channel).

9. ESPN Star Sports launched on September 7, 1979, beginning with the first telecast of what would become the channel's flagship program, SportsCenter.

10. ESPN Star Sports was the highest-rated Pay TV Olympic transmission in the territory, and delivered its three most-watched weeks ever across the region.

11. ESPN Star Sports+ is an integrated part of a completely redesigned and reimagined ESPN App that is the premier all-in-one digital sports platform for fans.

12. ESPN Star Sports set itself apart from its competition by using the top reporters for each of their respective sports by the early 1990s.

13. In 1990, ESPN Star Sports added Major League Baseball to its lineup with the signing of a $400 million contract to broadcast the league's games.

14. The league agreed to the deal, as long as ESPN Star Sports agreed to simulcast the games on broadcast television stations in the local markets of the participating teams.

15. ESPN Star Sports is an American-based global cable and satellite television channel that focuses on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports highlight and talk shows, and other original programming.