United States of America
ESPN is a Bristol, Connecticut sports media company that runs eight US cable networks, ESPN on ABC programming and a streaming service, and its press room counted about 5,900 employees worldwide in October 2026. Ownership is split among Disney at 72%, Hearst at 18% and the NFL at 10%. Disney reports it as part of its Sports segment.
Eight US cable networks carry the ESPN schedule: ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNEWS, ESPNU, ESPN Deportes, SEC Network, ACC Network and NFL Network, which the company lists as joining in April 2026. Games and studio shows also air as ESPN on ABC. Streaming is sold as two plans. ESPN Select is the former ESPN+, and ESPN Unlimited launched on August 21, 2025. The company also runs 43 linear networks in 130 countries and territories beyond the US. In Disney's fiscal 2025 annual report, ESPN is a line of business inside the Sports segment, one of three segments next to Entertainment and Experiences. The first network went on air on September 7, 1979. Headquarters is the ESPN Plaza campus in Bristol, Connecticut, with 18 buildings on 120 acres.
Bristol, Connecticut appears here because ESPN names it as its headquarters. Openings are posted on the Disney careers site, which listed 20 Bristol jobs in October 2026. All 20 were full time and regular, and none was marked remote.
Every one of the first 10 Bristol listings in October 2026 also named another office. Glendale, California appeared on 6 of them and New York, New York on 4. Burbank and Santa Monica in California and Lake Buena Vista in Florida each appeared once.
Titles carry Roman-numeral levels with Senior, Sr and Lead prefixes. Examples from the same listings are Product Software Engineer II, Lead Product Software Engineer, Sr Product Manager I, Senior Product Manager II and Sr Director, Programming Business Affairs.
The Bristol headquarters held about 3,600 employees in October 2026, about 61% of ESPN's total, by the company's press room count. Disney, the majority owner, employed about 231,000 people at September 27, 2025. About 172,000 of them were in the US and about 59,000 outside it.
Technology leads current openings. In October 2026, 14 of the 20 Bristol jobs sat in the Technology category and 2 in Production. Building, Construction and Facilities, Creative, Finance and Accounting, and Legal and Business Affairs had one each. By job level, 17 were Professional, with one each at Business Support / Administrative, Management and Executive.