Separately, ESPN is considering winding down its ESPN Classic channel in Europe, Middle East and Africa and its non-U.K. ESPN America TV businesses.

WSJ: ESPN Sells U.K. Channels to BT

British funiculars were installed in the 1880s to navigate the winding mounds, and a community of students, artists and middle-class sailors soon set up shop.

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