The network airs a regular schedule of daily and weekly programming as well as live radio play-by-play of sporting events.

ESPN Radio is broadcast to hundreds of affiliate stations, along with national and Canadian carriage on Sirius XM.

Several of its programs are also featured as fully live or "best-of" video simulcasts on the ESPN family of television networks.

Twenty-five stations had already signed on as affiliates at its September 5, 1991 announcement, with an expected total of 200 at the January launch.

[4] By 1996, ESPN Radio had expanded to weekdays[3] with a show hosted by The Fabulous Sports Babe (Nancy Donnellan).

[citation needed] Disney purchased WEVD from the Forward Association in September 2002 to become WEPN, ESPN Radio's flagship station.

[17][18] On June 12, 2023, Disney sold KRDC, its last broadcast radio asset, to Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, for $5 million, the station had carried a simulcast of KSPN along with selected overflow programming during the sale process after the wind-down of the Radio Disney network in 2021.

[19] The sale closed on September 8 of that year, with KRDC changing its callsign to KWVE and subsequently simulcasting the existing KWVE-FM.