DISH Network -XIX Central American & Caribbean Games.
October 21, 2002
DISH Network announced that it will offer the first U.S. television broadcast of 29 live events from the XIX Central American & Caribbean Games on DISH On Demand Pay-Per-View.
The Central American & Caribbean Games, featuring soccer, basketball, boxing, track and field and baseball, will be broadcast Saturday, Nov. 23, through Saturday, Dec. 7, from El Salvador.
The Central American & Caribbean Games, the longest running game in the Western Hemisphere, will feature the top athletes in soccer, boxing, track and field, and baseball from El Salvador, Mexico, Puerto Rico and 28 other Latin American countries. The Central American & Caribbean Games were conceived during the eighth Olympic Games held in Paris as an event reuniting regional athletes. The first Games were held in 1926 in Mexico City and have continued every four years since
that time.
