Sports Tonight (American TV program)
Sports Tonight is an American sports news television program that aired on
History
The early years
When CNN went on the air on June 1, 1980 one of the first newscasts was a sports bulletin where baseball and North American Soccer League highlights were shown. Later, a nightly program called Sports Tonight went on the air in late night. During this time, Nick Charles and Fred Hickman became established as the program's co-hosts. In addition, CNN aired a weekend program called Sports Saturday and Sports Sunday.
One of the program's most popular features was called "Play of the Day" (later known as the "Replay of the Day"), which showed a highlight (i.e., a spectacular play) from that day's action.
The 1990s and the end
In 1996, CNN launched a new station called
The program reclaimed its Sports Tonight name shortly afterwards, and when CNN pre-empted the show in late 2000
Sports Tonight continued on both CNN and CNN/SI until September 2001. When the
Aftermath
Since the cancellation of Sports Tonight, CNN has aired various programming at 11 p.m. ET, including
CNN International airs a similar show, World Sport, that airs several times a day as of 2023.
In 2024, as part of its launch of a nightly sports block programmed by TNT Sports, sibling network TruTV began airing a 6 p.m. ET news show titled TNT Sports Tonight (originally announced as TNT Sports Update), which is produced by CNN and hosted by Coy Wire.[7]
List of Sports Tonight hosts
- Steve Berthiaume
- Vince Cellini
- Nick Charles
- Paul Crane
- John Fricke
- Mike Galanos
- Inga Hammond
- Fred Hickman
- Dan Hicks
- Jim Huber
- Bob Lorenz
- Gary Miller
- Nancy Newman
- Keith Olbermann
- Dan Patrick
- Chris Rose
- Craig Sager
- Hannah Storm
- Van Earl Wright
- Daryn Kagan
References
- ^ SPORTS TONIGHT Celebrates 20 Years
- ^ "Sports Tonight - CNN - September 10, 2001 11:00-11:29 EDT". Internet Archive. 11 September 2001. Retrieved July 16, 2018.
- ^ Unfortunately, due to the recent news events, Sports Tonight will no longer air on CNN.
- ^ CNN eliminates sports show from lineup
- ^ CNN Drops “Sports Tonight,” Plans To Focus More On News
- ^ CNN/SI signed off with anchors thanking viewers and repeated the same edition of Sports Tonight until midnight, when the channel showed a blue screen with the message, "The owners of CNN/SI have stopped production of the network, and we regret that we can no longer provide it to you."
- ^ Steinberg, Brian (March 7, 2024). "Warner Bros. Discovery to Overhaul TruTV With Sports; Sets Nightly Block for Games and More (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved March 7, 2024.