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In addition to the ESPN3 service (which requires that your ISP strikes special deals with ESPN to view) Verizon FiOS customers will be able to watch ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN Buzzer Beater content live online beginning Thursday, February 17. This is all part of the cable and telcoTV industry&#8217;s TV Everywhere initiative, which stems from the belief that by offering paying TV customers a variety of broadband video options, they&#8217;ll be able to prevent TV cord cutting down the road. As with all TV Everywhere efforts, regular vanilla FiOS broadband customers who don&#8217;t have FiOS TV service won&#8217;t get this additional content &#8212; though they&#8217;ll still be able to view ESPN3.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FiOS TV Users Now Get ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU Online &nbsp; Verizon this week announced that they&#8217;ve expanded their licensing deal with Disney Corporation, and as a result will now offer more ESPN content streamed via broadband. 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