what the F**K does the acronym ESPN mean?
Do a search, it’s been asked before.
Entertainment Sports Programming Network.
I’m limited to my own system, but here goes:
A&E: Arts & Entertainment
ABC: American Broadcasting Company
AMC: American Movie Classics
BET: Black Entertainment Television
CBS: Columbia Broadcasting System
CMT: Country Music Television
CNBC: Corporate News 'Bout Cash
CNN: Cable News Network
E!TV: Entertainment Television
ESPN: Everybody Should Play Nintendo 
ESPN2: ESPN 2 (what, you couldn’t figure that out?)
FX: Fox reduX
GOLF: Geezers Outside Lying about F***ing
HBO: Home Box Office
HBOP: Home Box Office Plus
HBOS: Home Box Office Signature
HGTV: Home and Garden Television
HSN: Home Shopping Network
MSNBC: Maybe we Should Not Buy that Stock
MTV: Music Television
PBS: Public Broadcasting Service
TBS: Turner Broadcasting System
TCM: Turner Classic Movies
TLC: The Learning Channel
TMC: The Movie Channel
TNN: The Nashville Network
TNT: Turner Network Television
USA: Unlimited Stupid Advertisments
VH1: Video Hits One
WGN: We Got News
Glad to help!
Actually, when I was growing up, the cable channel referenced above was well known for a rather limited selection of movies.
Hence, my friend’s insistence that the channel’s initials stood for “Hey, Beastmaster’s On!”
I stand corrected.
And laughing.
A&E: Anglophiles & Englishmen
ABC: Always Broadcasting Commercials
AMC: Ancient Moldy Cinema
BET: Bruthahs Enjoying Thong-songs
CBS: Commercials Bring Solvency
CMT: Chaw, Miller and Trucks
CNBC: Corporate News ‘Bout Cash
CNN: Cable News Nazis
E!TV: Exclamation point Television
ESPN: Everybody Should Play Nintendo
ESPN2: Embassadors Sleep Past Noon or 2
FX: Fox reduX
GOLF: Geezers Outside Lying Face-down
HBO: Hey, Beastmaster’s On (thanks, DRY!)
HBOP: Hide the Booze Or Pow!
HBOS: Happiness Begets Only Sorrow
HGTV: Heteros and Gays Talk Valances
HSN: How to Spend at Night
MSNBC: Maybe we Should Not Buy that Stock
MTV: More Thoughtless Videos
NBC: Nothing But Commercials
PBS: Preferred British Sitcoms
TBS: The Braves Station (thanks, nameless fan at the Ted!)
TCM: Thousands of Classic Mediocrities
TLC: Televised Lawn Care
TMC: Twits, Morons and Creeps
TNN: Taunt No Nuckleheads
TNT: Trailers, Naugahyde and Tractor-pulls
TWC: Time-Worn Cliches
USA: Unlimited Silly Action shows
VH1: Virtually Hitless since the 1900s
WGN: We Got Nothin’
Due to transposed letters, KneadToKnow inadvertently published erroneous information.
Obviously, he meant to say
MSNBC: Micronesians Should Never Be Courteous
very good, KtN.
To answer the OP, as near as I can tell, it’s either “M” or “N,” depending upon how you round.
Mjollner, I was going for something along these lines, but gave up in it. ::golf clap::
I thought in was sports in Spanish.
Well, to find the “mean” of ESPN, let’s let A=1, B=2…
Therefore, we get
ESPN=5,19,16,14
The mean of this (if my quick mental math serves), is 13.5, with a standard deviation of 6.0
So the mean of ESPN is halfway between M and N +/- F
::shooting self now, to avoid nasty comments about being a smartass::
“Here he is, our encee from ESPM, Keith Olbermann!”
-Mayor Rudy Giuliani, in The Big Show
I am just checking this infamously titled thread after omni-not linked to it from a similar thread. Damn you, omni! Seems like this topic surfaces every couple of months! Anyhow, it isn’t until now that I am catching Myrr21’s comedic remarks regarding my spasmodic typo. And I thought–rather naively it appears–that I had escaped intact from any fun-making attempts directed at my obviously typing impaired fingers. Anyway, if a mod wants to change the title to its originally intended “What is the meaning of ESPN?” I wouldn’t complain. I mean, that would be great.
Off to watch SportsCenter.
That Myrr: What a card!
Hope you weren’t too frankincensed by his reply at the time.
WGN started out as a radio station, set up in 1924 by the Chicago Tribune. In later years a TV station was added, which eventually became a “superstation”, carried by cable systems across the country. The call letters of original radio station (which is still on the air at AM 720) came from the Tribune’s slogan: “World’s Greatest Newspaper”.
And now you know… the rest of the story…
FOX: Fornication On eXstasy!
UPN: UnPopular Network (yeah it’s overused, I know)
WB: Worrysome Bimbos