ESPN Player launches on iPad

ESPN Player, the sports media company’s broadband service across the EMEA region, is extending beyond desktop computers for the first time, launching as an app on Apple iPads.

Arne Rees, vice president, digital media, ESPN International, said: “We’re focused on extending fans’ access to the sports they love on the multiple devices that they increasingly use. Extending ESPN Player beyond desktop computers on to iPads helps us achieve that aim. ESPN has a long heritage of making the most of new technologies for fans.”

The sports streaming service, available online since 2007, is available as a free application on the Apple iPad, downloadable via the iTunes store here.

“The new app offers fans the same depth and quality of coverage that the ESPN Player service on desktop computers already provides, in a dynamic new interface that maximise the strengths of the iPad.” ESPN state.