Time Warner Cable customers will have access to some new features after the company struck a deal this week with The Walt Disney Co., parent company of ESPN.

Starting today, subscribers to the TWC Sports Pass can watch a new feature called ESPN Goal Line, which focuses on college football. ESPN Goal Line features cut-ins and highlights from top games throughout the day. ESPNEWS anchor Anish Shroff is the primary host, with Rod Gilmore the main analyst.

ESPN Goal Line will air from noon until around 11:30 p.m. on Channel 1540.

A similar service for college basketball called Buzzer Beater is planned for that season.

Time Warner Cable's Sports Pass costs an additional $5 per month, according to the company's Web site. Its offerings include College Sports TV, the Tennis Channel, NBA TV,and the NHL Network.

All TWC subscribers in Western New York will soon be able to watch game broadcasts online on ESPN3.com.

In the Disney-TWC deal, 12.7 million Time Warner video subscribers and 2.4 million Bright House Networks video subscribers will get access to ESPN3.com without an extra charge. ESPN3.com offers full game videos, and recently it carried live World Cup matches that built huge audiences via computer screens in the workplace. About 7.4 million people tuned in to ESPN3.com at one point during the tournament, on average watching two hours each.

Time Warner Cable and Bright House had long been holdouts on ESPN3.com, which has been around in different forms since 2001. They said Disney's pattern of tying fees to the number of Internet subscribers was inappropriate, since not all its Internet customers wanted to pay extra to access a single Web site.

In conceding the deal terms on ESPN3.com, in exchange Disney cut its most extensive deal ever with the companies. They had not renegotiated since 2000, only agreeing to a three-year extension in 2007.

Disney also won cash payment for granting Time Warner Cable the right to retransmit signals from four ABC stations and also secured carriage of a new 24-hour channel called Disney Junior, a rebranding of its SOAPnet channel, when it launches in 2012.

Carriage of other channels such as Disney Channel, ABC Family, Disney XD and ESPN 3D was included in the wide-ranging agreement.

The deal came after the companies indicated Sunday that there wouldn't be a damaging signal interruption of the kind that cut several minutes off of ABC's Oscar telecast to millions of Cablevision subscribers in a fee dispute in March.

"We are pleased to have reached an agreement without any interruption in service," said Glenn Britt, Time Warner Cable's chairman, president and chief executive officer. "We thank our customers for their support, and we look forward to launching these new and innovative products and services."

Co-chairs of Disney Media Networks George Bodenheimer and Anne Sweeney also commented on the announcement, stating, "The successful conclusion of this wide-ranging deal demonstrates our commitment to our distribution partners and our ability to work with them to provide consumers with an unmatched portfolio of national and local entertainment, news and sports content while continuing to strengthen both of our businesses."

"We're pleased that an agreement has been reached with no disruption in programming for our customers," said Steve Miron, chief executive officer, Bright House Networks.