ESPN will be shutting down one of it’s longtime TV channels at the end of the year.

According to report from Sports Business Journal, Disney plans on shutting down ESPN Classic on January 1, 2022, making it the second all-sports channel to go dark after NBCSN.

• Disney has started telling cable and satellite distributors that it plans to shut down ESPN Classic on Jan. 1, 2022.
  
  ESPN Classic joins NBCSN as the second all-sports TV channel that will go dark at the end of the year.
  
  (via @Ourand_SBJ) pic.twitter.com/ozu575Hmhp

  — Sports Business Journal (@SBJ) November 4, 2021

• Fans are disappointed.

• Let's not forget that during the early stages of the pandemic all of sports TV briefly turned into ESPN Classic. 86 Masters, 70s baseball games, Wrestlemanias. It showed how old games are comfort food, whether or not they can float a network anymore. https://t.co/xJW6shbubj

  — Bryan Curtis (@bryancurtis) November 4, 2021

• ESPN Classic played a bigger role in my life than it probably should have growing up. You'd find yourself just totally enraptured by Virginia in 1995 Peach Bowl. Youtube replaced it, but I liked the random element. Somehow you're watching 20 minutes of Davey Allison at Talladega. https://t.co/Z3QBFvvQrI

  — Kevin Clark (@bykevinclark) November 4, 2021

• Sad day. ESPN Classic is probably more responsible for me liking sports than any other factor. Not just the classic games themselves, all the game shows that they featured when I was a kid, and the SportsCentury profiles. I am a complete sports nerd because of this channel. https://t.co/ivG95kvrQa

  — Jake Baskin (@jakebaskinpxp) November 4, 2021

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