Seen on Screen: ESPN Back to Televise Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement; Fox Sports Unveils Bundesliga Coverage in U.S.

ESPN will televise the Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony for the 21st consecutive year on Saturday, August 8, at 7 p.m. ET. Host Trey Wingo will anchor coverage on ESPN (and WatchESPN) from Canton, Ohio, with NFL analyst Tom Jackson, senior NFL Insider Chris Mortensen and national correspondent Sal Paolantonio.

The Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2015 includes two members of ESPN's NFL analyst team: Jerome Bettis, a six-time Pro Bowl running back with 13,662 career yards, and Front Office Insider Bill Polian, a six-time NFL Executive of the Year. Bettis and Polian will be enshrined with Tim Brown, Charles Haley, Junior Seau, Will Shields, Mick Tingelhoff and Ron Wolf

FOX Sports embarks on its inaugural season as the U.S. home to the Bundesliga, Germany's top professional soccer league, on Friday, Aug. 14, expanding its multi-platform domestic coverage to unprecedented levels. More than 300 regular-season matches are scheduled for live television or streaming in the U.S. for the first time ever, more than double past years, including 58 slated for FOX Sports 1. The Bundesliga season consists of 306 matches played from August to May. In addition to the 58 games telecast on FOX Sports 1, 60 are earmarked for FOX Sports 2, and the remainder offered via FOX Soccer Plus. On the Spanish-language side, FOX Deportes is set to televise 105 matches. Additionally, every game televised on FOX Sports 1 or FOX Sports 2 is being streamed live on desktop computers via FOXSoccer.com as well as the FOX Sports GO mobile app. All FOX Soccer Plus matches are being streamed on the FOX Soccer 2 GO app

After two seasons on FOX Sports 1, FOX NFL KICKOFF jumps to FOX broadcast network beginning Sunday, Sept. 13 (11:00 AM ET), immediately preceding FOX NFL SUNDAY. Utilizing a format that includes analysis and insights from an expert panel of former NFL personnel, FOX NFL KICKOFF features interviews with NFL newsmakers, live reports from NFL on FOX game venues, breaking news and updates from a team of in-the- know on-air. The show's host and panel are to be announced in coming weeks, and FOX NFL SUNDAY analysts are also scheduled to appear on FOX NFL KICKOFF throughout the season

WWE is expanding SummerSlam from three to four hours on WWE Network where it will now begin at 7pm on August 23. SummerSlam now joins WrestleMania as the only two events with four hours of live non-stop action. WWE Network will also air a one-hour live SummerSlam Kick-Off Show starting at 6pm

ROOT SPORTS and the Mountain West Conference announced that the network will televise nine live MW football games in 2015. This will mark ROOT SPORTS' third season as the official regional television partner of the Mountain West. ROOT SPORTS will kick off its coverage on September 5 at 1:30 p.m. MT, as the Air Force Falcons host the Morgan State Bears at Falcon Stadium in Colorado Springs, Colorado. ROOT SPORTS will showcase several of the long-running and intense rivalries in the region, including the Rio Grande Rivalry featuring New Mexico State at New Mexico (October 3), as well as Colorado State at New Mexico (November 21), and UNLV at Wyoming (November 28). All matchups will be available exclusively on ROOT SPORTS in the Rocky Mountain region, with several matchups also available on ROOT SPORTS in the Northwest and Southwest territories. These three ROOT SPORTS regions combined reach nearly 10 million homes across 17 states

Tennis' Emirates Airline US Open Series - eight hard-court events (four ATP, three WTA, one combined) across North America in five weeks - is now exclusive to ESPN, with 68 hours on ESPN2 and extensive weeklong ESPN3 coverage of each event that started Monday, July 27, with the ATP BB&T Open in Atlanta. WatchESPN will deliver the ESPN2 telecasts, accessible online at WatchESPN.com, on smartphones and tablets via the award-winning WatchESPN app, and streamed on televisions through ESPN on Xbox LIVE to Gold members, Apple TV, Roku and Amazon Fire TV to more than 93 million households nationwide via an affiliated video or internet provider. The schedule is highlighted by back-to-back weeks where all the top players are expected, including Serena Williams as she aims for a possible calendar year Grand Slam at the US Open - the Rogers Cup in Canada (women in Toronto, men in Montreal) concluding Sunday, August 16, and the ATP / WTA Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati concluding Sunday, Aug. 23. A points system rewards the men and women who finish in the top three for the USOS with a bonus based on their performance in the US Open. If the USOS winner also is the US Open champion, they receive a bonus of $1,000,000. ESPN's first-ever exclusive coverage of the US Open begins Monday, Aug. 31

Tennis Channel will have more national on-air coverage of Washington DC's Citi Open tournament this year than ever before. The network will also have a significantly enhanced on-site presence, similar to its approach at some of the year's most important tournaments like the French Open and the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif. Tennis Channel's Hall of Fame analysts and award-winning sportscasters will cover everything from the first ball to championship point live from a desk on the grounds of the Citi Open, in full view of tournament attendees. The set will act as a central hub of the network's on-air and digital offerings, which this year broaden to include simultaneous Center Court and Grandstand coverage for the first time in tournament history

ESPN's four-week preseason series Hey Rookie, Welcome to the NFL debuts Tuesday, August 4, at 9 p.m. ET following ESPN's SportsCenter Special: Cowboys Training Camp. The 30-minute episodes follow eight rookies - including five first-round draft selections - from the NFL Draft through training camp as they prepa

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