Seen on Screen: ESPN Targets Hispanic Fans With Nación ESPN; USA Network Trots Out Beverly Hills Dog Show

Seen on Screen provides a roundup of recent sports programming news, including new original programs and live-game schedule announcements. In this week’s edition ESPN readies Nación ESPN, MLB Network will carry Vin Scully’s final home game, USA Network will broadcast the Beverly Hills Dog Show for the first time, Sling TV offers a free preview for the first Presidential Debate and Monday Night Football, SEC Network+ covers marching bands live during college football halftime shows, ESPN will air a special Kentucky Men’s Basketball Practice, CBS Sports Digital debuts The Jonah Keri Show, and more. 

…ESPN is set to debut Nación ESPN, a new interactive sports talk show dedicated to covering the most relevant and diverse sports news and information tailored to young, bilingual U.S. Hispanic sports fans. The new one-hour, weekly show will premiere on Sept. 26 at 5 p.m. ET and air live on ESPN2 on Mondays from ESPN’s studios in Los Angeles. Nación ESPN will be hosted by Jorge Sedano (co-host of ESPNLA’s Mornings with Keyshawn and Jorge and LZ), Bernardo Osuna (ESPN’s bilingual sports authority, boxing reporter and host of ESPN Deportes’ A Los Golpes), and ESPNDeportes.com reporter and baseball expert Marly Rivera. Fueled by fan interaction, lively debates and engaging discussions, Nación ESPN will offer content that is relevant and engaging to a broader audience while including unique points-of-view that reflect the Hispanic sports fan. Although the show will be produced in English, guests will be free to communicate in their language of preference – Spanish or English…

…MLB Network will carry Vin Scully’s last game call from Dodger Stadium when the NL West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers host the Colorado Rockies this Sunday, September 25 at 4:00 p.m. ET. MLB Network will simulcast SportsNet LA’s production of the game. The telecast will be blacked out on MLB Network in the Rockies’ and Dodgers’ home television territories, which will be provided with a telecast of the Texas Rangers at Oakland Athletics…

…USA Network will broadcast the Beverly Hills Dog Show for the first time ever as part of a new partnership with the Kennel Club of Beverly Hills.  Featuring the canine stars of the show on a dog-friendly red carpet, the inaugural BEVERLY HILLS DOG SHOW PRESENTED BY PURINA – produced by NBC Sports Group – will air on USA Network at 8/7c on Easter Sunday, April 16, 2017. Created by NBC Sports Group in a multi-year agreement with the Kennel Club of Beverly Hills and Purina, the new program will be hosted from the Fairplex in Pomona, California by legendary breeder, owner, handler, author and judge David Frei, alongside award-winning actor, author and Broadway star John O’Hurley. Frei and O’Hurley also co-host television’s most-watched canine competition, NBC’s “The National Dog Show Presented by Purina.”…

…SEC Network will provide the sights and sounds of the halftime band performances live during each of the network’s football games this season. Coverage of the marching bands will be offered as a second-screen experience on the SEC Network’s digital channel, SEC Network +.  SEC Network + carries streaming-only events available to SEC Network subscribers via WatchESPN and the ESPN app…

…Sling TV is offering an 18-hour free preview of its Sling Orange service to all new Sling TV customers, in anticipation for both the first presidential debate and the Atlanta-New Orleans pro football game, airing on Monday, Sept. 26. No credit card or payment is required, Only a valid email address and password is needed. New Sling TV customers can sign up for the free preview today by visiting www.sling.com/watchfree. The free preview will run from 8 a.m. ET Monday, Sept. 26, through 2 a.m. ET Tuesday, Sept. 27, allowing viewers to watch pre- and post-coverage of the debate and football highlights…

…For the third consecutive year, ESPNU will air a special Kentucky Men’s Basketball Practice from the Joe Craft Center in Lexington, Ky. on Sunday, Oct. 9. The two-hour special begins at 7 p.m. ET and will take a look at ESPN.com’s preseason No. 3-ranked team, with coverage from ESPN NBA and college basketball’s Doris Burke, college basketball analysts Seth Greenberg and Fran Fraschilla and college basketball reporter Andy Katz. The Wildcats will participate in individual drills, as well as 3-on-3 and 5-on-5 scrimmages…

…CBS Sports Digital debuts THE JONAH KERI SHOW, a new half-hour live weekly show with host Jonah Keri, on Friday, September 23 at 2:30pm ET.  THE JONAH KERI SHOW, a live video show that will stream on all CBS Sports digital platforms (including CBSSports.com and the CBS Sports apps), features Jonah’s take on top baseball and buzzing sports stories each week, weaving in stats and numbers in a unique and entertaining format.  The show will also feature guests from around the baseball world. THE JONAH KERI SHOW will air every Friday at 2:30pm ET, originating from Denver…

…ESPN’s ninth annual College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon will feature 13 men’s and women’s college basketball games beginning on Monday, Nov. 14 and continuing Tuesday, Nov. 15, across ESPN and ESPN2, bringing more than 24 hours of game action to mark the start of the 2016-17 season. The schedule includes 11 men’s games and two top-15 women’s matchups concluding with the sixth annual State Farm Champions Classic from Madison Square Garden in New York City. The neutral-site, early-season men’s doubleheader that matches four of the winningest programs against each other begins with College GameDay Covered by State Farm from inside the arena at 6 p.m. ET, followed by preseason-ranked No. 3 Kentucky vs. No. 13 Michigan State at 7 p.m. and No. 1 Duke vs. No. 4 Kansas at 9:30 p.m. – all on ESPN…

…As the NHL celebrates its 100th season in 2016-17, NHL Network will explore hockey’s rich history and tradition in its first-ever documentary series, NHL Network Originals. To mark the start of the 2016 World Cup of Hockey, the first installment of NHL Network Originals is Orchestrating An Upset: The 1996 World Cup of Hockey, premiered on Wednesday, September 14 at 7 p.m. PT, 20 years to the day that Team USA defeated favored Team Canada to win the inaugural World Cup of Hockey. Narrated by Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and hockey fan James Hetfield of Metallica, the hour-long program features members of Team USA from 1996, including general manager and Hall of Famer Lou Lamoriello, head coach Ron Wilson, and players Tony Amonte, Bill Guerin, Hall of Famer Brett Hull, captain and Hall of Famer Brian Leetch, Mike Richter, Keith Tkachuk and Doug Weight, discussing their journey to tournament champions, which many fans and media thought was unattainable…

…The sixth season of NFL Network’s Emmy-nominated series A Football Life premiered on Sept. 16 with a profile of Pro Football Hall of Fame running back for the New York Jets and New England Patriots, Curtis Martin. The one-hour show produced by NFL Films features sitdown interviews with Martin, former head coach Bill Parcells, family members and more, and uses Curtis’ love of art as a vehicle to tell his story, with acclaimed street artist Gamma Acosta painting a mural depicting Curtis’ life…

…All 82 Los Angeles Kings regular season games are again slated to be broadcast this season locally or on national television, along with two Kings 2016 exhibition games on FOX Sports West on October 7 and October 8 in Las Vegas in the new T-Mobile Arena. Regular season coverage of Kings hockey on FOX Sports West kicks-off with the club’s second game of the season, the Kings-Philadelphia Flyers contest in Los Angeles on October 14, the club’s home opener.  That kicks-off 21 straight Kings games on FOX Sports West.  As previously announced the Kings season opener on October 12 in San Jose will be broadcast on NBCSN. Kings television play-by-play announcer Bob Miller and analyst Jim Fox return to broadcast Kings games this season.  Miller returns for his 44 season as the television “Voice of the Kings” and Fox, the former Kings forward, is entering his 27 season as the club’s television analyst…

…CBS Sports has announced its SEC ON CBS football game for Saturday, October 1 (3:30 PM, ET) will feature *No. 12-ranked Georgia taking on *No. 14-ranked Tennessee…

…ESPN has selected its 2016 Sunday Night Baseball presented by Taco Bell season finale: the Chicago Cubs, owners of baseball’s best record, led by NL MVP candidate Kris Bryant, will host their rivals, the St. Louis Cardinals and Yadier Molina on Sept. 25 at 8 p.m. ET from historic Wrigley Field…