SportsCenter
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SportsCenter | |
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Multi-camera | |
Running time | 60 or 90 minutes (depending on content) |
Production company | ESPN |
Original release | |
Network | ESPN (1979–present) ESPN2 (2009–present) ESPNews (2010–present) ABC (2020–present)[1] |
Release | September 7, 1979 present | –
SportsCenter (SC) is an American daily
Since it premiered upon the network's launch on September 7, 1979, the show has broadcast more than 60,000 episodes, more than any other program on American television; SportsCenter is broadcast from ESPN's studio facilities in Bristol, Connecticut, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.[2][3]
Overview and format
As of 2024, SportsCenter normally runs live at the following times:
- Weekdays: 7:00–8:00 a.m., 2:00–3:00 p.m., 6:00–7:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m.–1:00 a.m. ET.
- Saturday: 7:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m., 6:00–7:00 p.m. and 11:00 pm.–3:00 a.m. ET.
- Sunday: 7:00–10:00 a.m., and 11:00 p.m.–12:30 a.m. ET.
The program's runtime and starting time depend on the games' runtime. In case a game overlaps the starting time of any SportsCenter edition, it is occasionally moved to either ESPN2 or ESPNews (depending on whether one of the networks is carrying an event) until the event concludes. Conversely, SportsCenter may start early and run longer if the preceding event finishes early or breaking sports news requires it.
Most editions of the show originate from a studio at ESPN's headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut. However, the Scott Van Pelt edition of SportsCenter has been produced out of a studio in Washington, D.C., inside the ABC News bureau since 2020, in the former studio of Around the Horn.[4][5] The 1 a.m. Eastern edition of SportsCenter has been produced out of ESPN's Los Angeles Production Center at L.A. Live since 2009; that edition also is repeated during the overnight hours.[6]
ESPN also produces short 90-second capsules known as SportsCenter Right Now, which air at select points within game telecasts on the network and sister broadcast network ABC to provide updates of other ongoing and recently concluded sporting events.
In addition to providing game highlights and news from the day in sports outside of the scheduled slate of games (including team player and management transactions, injury reports and other news), the program also features live reports from sites of sports events scheduled to be held or already concluded, extensive analysis of completed and upcoming sports events from sport-specific analysts and special contributors, and feature segments providing interviews with players, coaches, and franchise management in the headlines. In addition to airing simulcasts or network-exclusive editions on sister networks ESPN2 and ESPNews, the program also produces short in-game updates during sports events aired on ABC and, until 2017, an interstitial play countdown segment for fellow network Disney XD.
Conditions to showing highlights
Some sports leagues and organizations, including the
ESPN is traditionally unable to air highlights of
In addition, there are many anecdotal reports of various television networks (such as
Starting in 2007 and until its final season of broadcasting in 2014, ESPN stopped displaying the actual name of the
History
SportsCenter was conceived in 1979 and created by ESPN executives Chet Simmons and Scotty Connal.[8] The program was originally anchored by Chris Berman, George Grande, Greg Gumbel, Lee Leonard, Bob Ley, Sal Marchiano and Tom Mees.
Grande introduced the country to ESPN when he co-anchored the premiere episode of SportsCenter on September 7, 1979, with Leonard, a longtime New York City sports broadcaster. According to Entertainment Weekly, Leonard said in the opening of the show: "If you're a fan, what you will see in the next minutes, hours, and days to follow may convince you that you've gone to sports heaven."[9] Grande spent ten more years with ESPN and SportsCenter until he left the network in 1989.
Chris Berman joined ESPN one month after its launch and became a fixture on the program until the early 1990s, when his efforts became more focused on National Football League and Major League Baseball coverage. He does, however, still occasionally appear as a substitute anchor. Bob Ley, who also hosted Outside the Lines, regularly appeared on the Sunday morning edition of SportsCenter until his retirement in 2019.
1988–2003
In 1988, the program's format was changed by executive producer Walsh from focusing on individual sports or leagues to a "newspaper-style" structure, prioritizing stories by importance rather than by sport.[10]
The program's title sequence during its early years included various kinds of sports balls flying outward, set to a rapid-fire electronic music version of "Pulstar" by Vangelis. By 1989, the first of several theme songs to incorporate ESPN's trademark six-note fanfare went into use. The theme music was originally composed by John Colby, who served as ESPN's music director from 1984 to 1992, creating and producing music for various sporting events and programs seen on the network.[11] The current version of the theme was composed in 2006 by Annie Roboff, who also co-wrote Faith Hill's 1998 hit "This Kiss".[12]
In 1994, ESPN launched the
In 2001,
September 11, 2001
On September 11, 2001, ESPN interrupted regular programming at 11:05 a.m. Eastern to cover the immediate aftermath of the terror attacks through a simulcast of ABC News coverage. ESPN considered suspending that night's editions of SportsCenter, before deciding to air a half-hour edition in which they announced the cancellations of major upcoming sporting events.[15]
2004–2008
On June 7, 2004, SportsCenter began broadcasting in
During the summer of 2005, SportsCenter premiered a segment called "
On April 4, 2006, SportsCenter began to show highlights of Major League Baseball games in progress at the program's airtime; the rights to broadcast these highlights while games were ongoing was previously given exclusivity to fellow ESPN program, Baseball Tonight; the in-progress highlights are shown as part of the "Baseball Tonight Extra" segment. Prior to that date, video footage from MLB games was not shown on any SportsCenter broadcasts until the games completed play.
On February 11, 2007, following the
Four months later on May 6, another major change to SportsCenter was introduced on that night's 11:00 p.m. (Eastern) edition, with the debut of a "rundown" graphic that appears on the right-side third of the screen. This feature was originally only shown during rebroadcasts of the overnight edition on Monday through Saturday nights, and on the main Sunday night telecast;[20] on ESPNHD, the sidebar graphic filled the right pillarbox where the ESPNHD logo would usually appear when standard definition footage was presented.
The 6:00 p.m. edition of SportsCenter moved one hour earlier to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on May 28, 2007; at that time, the early-evening edition was, for the first time, expanded to three hours. During that broadcast, ESPN aired live coverage of Roger Clemens's second start for the New York Yankees' minor league affiliate in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The 11:00 p.m. Eastern Time edition of SportsCenter on August 7, 2007, which was anchored by John Buccigross and Cindy Brunson, showed live coverage of Barry Bonds's 756th career home run, which broke the old MLB record set by Hank Aaron (ESPN was carrying the game live on ESPN2). In August 2008, the former WWE employee Jonathan Coachman joined ESPN to anchor the show.
2008 daytime expansion
On August 11, 2008, during the opening week of the
That same year, Hannah Storm (former NBC Sports reporter and anchor of CBS's The Early Show) joined ESPN to anchor the 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. block of the program.[22] The new format included two teams of two anchors in three-hour shifts:
- 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time: Kevin Negandhi (originally Josh Elliott) and Hannah Storm
- 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time: Jay Crawford (originally Robert Flores, then John Buccigross) and Chris McKendry
In addition, Sage Steele would provide updates every 30 minutes from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.[23] The changes also included a new website for the program – SportsCenter.com, which launched on August 11, 2008 – to promote more interaction with viewers.[21] To promote these changes, ESPN held an employee casting call to see who would be featured in almost 25 live and unscripted commercials per day. Steve Braband, an International Programmer for the network, won, and was featured in ads shown about every half-hour (excluding from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time) on ESPN. Additionally, the network launched the website, steveislive.com, featuring Braband's daily appearance schedule, blog, and video clips of past appearances and audition footage.
2009–2012
Upon that network's launch on February 13, 2009, SportsCenter began producing a countdown segment, the SportsCenter High-5, for sister channel Disney XD (which is owned by ESPN majority owner The Walt Disney Company).[24][25]
On April 6, 2009 (starting with the 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time edition, which was anchored by Hannah Storm and Sage Steele), SportsCenter debuted a new graphics package that saw the "rundown" graphic – shown during the daytime editions – being shifted to the left side of the screen. On that same date, SportsCenter began producing its 1:00 a.m. Eastern Time edition of SportsCenter live from ESPN's production facilities in the newly constructed
The
On August 30, 2010, ESPN expanded SportsCenter to
By mid-2011, shortly after ESPN and ESPN2 both converted to a
On August 25, 2012, the BottomLine was used to acknowledge the death of astronaut
On December 3, 2012, Lindsay Czarniak became the main co-anchor of the 6:00 p.m. edition of SportsCenter. On February 8 and 9, 2013, the 11:00 p.m. editions of SportsCenter on both nights were broadcast from Los Angeles, due to a massive snowstorm in the Northeastern United States that prevented some staff from conducting the program out of ESPN's Bristol headquarters. Stan Verrett anchored both editions from the network's Los Angeles studios.
2013–2016
In late March 2013, David Lloyd and Sage Steele, both of whom were previously co-anchored the weekend morning editions – moved to the weekday early-afternoon block (from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Eastern). The current daytime format, which was implemented that month, now features three teams of two anchors in two-hour shifts. On June 21, 2013, a large
In February 2014, production of the weeknight 1:00 and 2:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) editions of SportsCenter was temporarily relocated back to Bristol, due to renovations being made at the network's SportsCenter studio in Los Angeles. In addition, Neil Everett and Stan Verrett – both of whom had anchored SportsCenter from Los Angeles since 2009 – were moved back to the network's headquarters, before both hosts and the program's production returned to the then-newly renovated Los Angeles studio on June 23, 2014.
On June 22, 2014, SportsCenter began broadcasting from Studio X of ESPN's new Digital Center 2 facility, which concurrently resulted in a major overhaul to the program's production and on-air appearance. The new studio incorporates over 114 displays – including two touchscreens, large vertical screens, and a "multidimensional" video wall consisting of 56 monitors of varying sizes and positions that can be used to create pseudo-3D effects. The monitor displays can be used to show video content (such as highlights) and other relevant imagery (such as statistics), emphasizing the ability for anchors to present content on-set through means other than just through voiceovers. A new graphics package was also introduced, emphasizing a bolder, yet more simplified look – in both their appearance and the level of content. To coincide with the redesign of SportsCenter, a revised variant of ESPN's BottomLine ticker was introduced to complement the new graphical design, using a dark grey color scheme. A downscaled replica of DC2's set was constructed for broadcasts originating from ESPN's Los Angeles studio.[27][28][29][30]
On February 2 and 3, 2015, Lindsay Czarniak anchored the 6:00 p.m. (Eastern) edition of SportsCenter from ESPN's Los Angeles facilities, due to a major snowstorm that hit the Northeastern United States the previous weekend, which also affected ESPN's main facilities in Bristol. The previous week from January 26 to 30, Czarniak had co-anchored the 6:00 p.m. edition alongside John Anderson from the parking lot of the Scottsdale Fashion Square in Scottsdale, Arizona as part of the program's coverage of Super Bowl XLIX. After that week, Anderson was moved back to the 11:00 p.m. broadcast, making Czarniak the solo anchor of the 6:00 p.m. editions on weeknights starting on February 2.
On September 7, 2015, Scott Van Pelt became the solo anchor of a revised 12:00 a.m. (Eastern) edition of the program, which is more freeform than other SportsCenter editions and promoted as SportsCenter at Night, or SC@Night for short. In addition to featuring highlights and discussion panels, it features Van Pelt's analysis of sports events in a style similar to that conducted on his former radio talk show SVP and Russillo, during the replacement of
In October 2015, Ronda Rousey became the first female athlete to guest host on the show.[33]
On February 8, 2016, SportsCenter moved its start time from 9:00 to 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time, with the launch of a new three hour morning block from 7:00 to 10:00 a.m., titled SportsCenter:AM, also branded SC:AM.[34] Maintaining a faster-paced format, the program focuses on highlights from the previous night in the first hour, the top plays and moments of the previous night's sporting events in the second hour, and the upcoming day in sports in the third hour. SportsCenter:AM also shares resources with Good Morning America and ESPN2/ESPN Radio's Mike & Mike.[35][36]
On October 11, 2016, ESPN named
November 13, 2015
On November 13, 2015, ESPN interrupted regular programming around 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time, to cover the immediate aftermath of the terror attacks on Stade de France and downtown Paris as well as the hostage situation in the Bataclan theatre, where a concert by American rock band Eagles of Death Metal was interrupted by terrorists who killed 89 people. ESPN FC correspondent Jonathan Johnson, as well as then French president François Hollande, were attending the game in the Stade de France, around which the three explosions occurred. While Hollande was evacuated from the stadium at half-time, Johnson remained in the stadium, and after the game he described to the viewers the panic of the fans who attended the game and then rushed the field, after being noticed by the Stade de France's PA announcer. After the hostage crisis ended, a special edition of the program was aired, featuring analysis and reports on the impact that the Paris attacks had on the sports world and social media reactions of sportspeople to the attacks, announcing the postponements of some major European sporting events that had been announced up to that weekend.
2017–2022
On January 3, 2017, the 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. ET editions of SportsCenter moved from ESPN to ESPN2, effectively switching channels with the two-hour debate program First Take, which moved from ESPN2 to ESPN.
On February 6, 2017, the newly revamped 6:00 p.m. ET of SportsCenter, known as
On April 26, 2017, SportsCenter anchors Jay Crawford, Chris Hassel, Jade McCarthy, Sara Walsh and Jaymee Sire (who had co-anchored SportsCenter:AM since its debut on February 8, 2016) were among the 100 staffers who were let go by ESPN.
Several notable changes were implemented for SportsCenter beginning on August 28, 2017. Sage Steele and Randy Scott replaced Sire (who was laid off four months earlier) and Kevin Negandhi as co-anchors for the weekday editions of SportsCenter:AM joining Jay Harris, while Matt Barrie and Elle Duncan co-anchor the weekend editions of SportsCenter:AM alongside Negandhi (who has since left that show to co-anchor the weeknight 6:00 p.m. ET editions of SportsCenter with Steele). In another notable change, the "rundown" graphic has been permanently removed after a decade and (with the exception of the midnight ET edition with Scott Van Pelt) it has now been replaced by a bug on the lower-left portion of the 16:9 screen. The bug now identifies specific editions of SportsCenter (such as SC:AM, SC@Night and so on).
ESPN will debut a brand new advertising campaign for SportsCenter which will be created by Droga5 in late 2017.[37] It was originally expected to replace the long-running This is SportsCenter advertising campaign as it would be discontinued. As of 2020, the latter advertising campaign (This is SportsCenter) is still being shown.[needs update]
On November 29, 2017, within an announcement of 150 behind-the-scenes staff members being laid off, ESPN announced the end of the primetime SportsCenter editions airing on ESPNews as of November 30 (breaking sports news coverage will be maintained where needed).[38][39]
Following Jemele Hill's departure from SportsCenter for
With the debut of
On September 6, 2019, in honor of the 40th anniversary of ESPN's launch, Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick made a surprise on-air reunion as guest hosts for the late-night edition, which featured tributes to their time at the network.[40]
COVID-19 pandemic
On March 11, 2020, the NBA announced that it would suspend the
As a result of the pandemic, ESPN significantly reduced the production of SportsCenter, which at the time aired live three times each weekday (noon, 6:00 and 11:00 p.m., all times Eastern) and twice each on Saturday and Sunday.
Beginning with the weekend of September 12, 2020, and also, the week of September 14, 2020, SportsCenter:AM returned to its regularly-scheduled daily 7:00 a.m. ET time slot. On weekdays, the first hour of the show is now aired on ESPN from 7–8 a.m. ET, with the remaining two hours on ESPN2 from 8–10 a.m. ET. On weekends, ESPN airs a two-hour block of the show from 7–9 a.m. ET.
2022–present
On August 29, 2022, SportsCenter debuted a newly revamped Studio X, complete with a larger LED video wall, new LED monitors and a bigger news desk to accommodate in-studio guests. Studio X underwent a second revamp the following summer and on September 7, 2023 (coincidentally the 44th anniversary of ESPN's launch), SportsCenter returned to the main news desk in the same studio.
Segments
On-air staff
Current on-air staff
- Anchors (as of February 2024)
- Cristina Alexander
- John Anderson
- Victoria Arlen
- Matt Barrie
- Nicole Briscoe
- John Buccigross
- Drew Carter
- Linda Cohn
- Kevin Connors
- Shae Cornette
- Elle Duncan
- Michael Eaves
- Jay Harris
- Steve Levy
- David Lloyd
- Zubin Mehenti
- Kevin Negandhi
- Stephen Nelson
- Arda Ocal
- Kelsey Riggs
- Hannah Storm
- Gary Striewski
- Scott Van Pelt
- Stan Verrett
- Christine Williamson
Other editions
SportsCenter Australia
SportsCenter Australia is shown on ESPN Australia.
ESPN America version
On March 1, 2010, ESPN launched a special domestic edition of SportsCenter on its European channel ESPN America. The half-hour program, anchored by Michael Kim,[41] aired Monday through Fridays at 6:00 a.m. Western European Time (7:00 a.m. Central European Time), with a late-night broadcast at 10:30 p.m. WET/11:30 p.m. CET.
In April 2012, the ESPN America edition of the program was expanded to weekends, and moved to 8:00 a.m. WET (9:00 a.m. CET). At that time, a localized version of the program that was previously produced was discontinued and was replaced with an edited version of the 2:00 a.m. Eastern Time telecast from Los Angeles, recut to fit a 45-minute time block through the removal of commercial breaks and stories on European sports (such as soccer); the program began to be repeated at 8.45 a.m., 4:00 p.m. and 4.45 p.m. (WET).
ESPN Radio SportsCenter
ESPN Radio broadcasts ESPN Radio SportsCenter, which features scores, stats and news headlines, every half an hour throughout all talk programming and every 20 minutes throughout MLB and NFL broadcasts. The updates can be accessed on-demand using the ESPN website/mobile app. The current half hour's file is usually available within 10+1⁄2 minutes after its first broadcast.
SportsCenter AM
SportsCenter AM was a radio show on ESPN Radio hosted by ESPN Radio SportsCenter anchor Jay Reynolds. The show has been replaced by First and Last in July 2017.[42] SportsCenter AM featured scores from all major sporting events including the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB. The show usually played audio highlights for last minute shots, game winning homers, and other exciting events from the previous day's sporting events.
SportsCenter AM lasted one hour from 4:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m.
TSN SportsCentre
SportsCentre is the daily sports news television program on TSN, the Canadian sports network in which ESPN is a minority owner. The title is rendered in Canadian spelling. It uses the similar look and format to ESPN's SportsCenter, the current ESPN SportsCenter theme, as well as some of the same features and segments.
SportsCenter Philippines
SportsCenter Philippines is a local version of SportsCenter, as a result of the partnership between ESPN and Sports5 (now
SportsCenter on Snapchat
SportsCenter on Snapchat is a version of SportsCenter distributed exclusively on
SportsCenter en Español
SportsCenter has a Spanish language version in the United States (including Puerto Rico) and Mexico, which is called SportsCenter en Español and is broadcast nightly on ESPN Deportes, ESPN Latin America and Star+.[47] Antonio Valle, Fernando Tirado, Jorge Eduardo Sánchez, José Briseño, José Antonio "Toño" Rodríguez, Julia Headley, Kary Correa and Miguel Ángel Briseño are some of the show's reporters.
Spin-offs
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- BassCenter (2003–2006)
- ScoreCenter on ESPN MobileTV (2007–present)
- SportsCenterU (2006–present)
- X Center(2005–present)
See also
- ESPNews – ESPN's 24-hour sports news network, which carries specialized editions of SportsCenter
- ESPN3 – an interactive sports streaming service featuring supplementary programming content
- Fox Sports Live – a daily sports news program on Fox Sports 1, which served as the direct competitor of SportsCenter
- The 'Lights – a daily sports highlight program on NBCSN, that differed from both Fox Sports Live and SportsCenter in its use of voiceovers for presenting highlights in lieu of on-camera anchors
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Further reading
- Farred, Grant (May 2000). "Cool as the other side of the pillow: how ESPN's SportsCenter has changed television sports talk". S2CID 154524546.
- S2CID 144711134.
External links
- Official website
- SportsCenter at IMDb