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This is SportsCenter?(Static)(television sports program)(Brief Article)
Crotchety/jealous media rivals aren't the only ones saying SportsCenter ain't what it was. Rewind to the All-Star postgame July 13, when a satellite-switcher malfunction permitted some viewers to hear what was supposed to be a scrambled private conversation on Baseball Tonight's dark set. There was Harold Reynolds, moaning that Shaq trade talk was the lead on SportsCenter--on the night of the pastime's midsummer classic?--and Chris Berman, icon of The Worldwide Leader past and present, reverberating, "Now you know why I don't watch our show anymore." Ouch, baby.
Does perception equal reality? SC reigns supreme in the sports information age, right through 12 straight quarters of ratings growth. But notice ESPN doesn't try to attract new eyeballs by marketing its journalistic triumphs. Instead, it's ...
- SportsCenter: 25 years of excellence: ESPN's signature show established the...
- Magazine article from: Broadcasting & Cable Miller, Stuart November 8, 2004 700+ words
...unstoppable cultural phenomenon. This is SportsCenter, the second show ever to be inducted...p.m., it introduced itself with SportsCenter, originally hosted by George Grande...version. "From the beginning, SportsCenter and the network were pretty much one...
- No. 3: ESPN's SportsCenter; Network's flagship continues to draw the elusive...
- Magazine article from: B to B Callahan, Sean May 3, 2004 700+ words
...advantage when he's selling ESPN's "SportsCenter.'' "I'll be talking to a VP...ll say, `My son has to have it [`SportsCenter'],' " Erhardt said. "At that...see their sons sitting in front of `SportsCenter' eating cereal in the morning. That...
- The timeline.(SportsCenter is awarded the Hall of Fame award of Broadcasting &...
- Magazine article from: Broadcasting & Cable November 8, 2004 700+ words
...ESPN launches at 7 p.m. with first SportsCenter, hosted by George Grande and Lee Leonard...Adds 7 a.m. slot OCTOBER 1980: SportsCenter expands to one hour on Saturday night...network. DECEMBER 1988: 10,000th SportsCenter telecast JULY 1989: Feature on pitcher...
- ESPN celebrates milestone 'SportsCenter'. (Marketing & Advertising).(new...
- Magazine article from: Multichannel News Hogan, Monica July 15, 2002 700+ words
...network's 25,000th installment of SportsCenter, set to air August 25. The celebration...to the memorable series of "This is SportsCenter" promotional spots that began in 1995...charged with logging the mountains of SportsCenter tapes in a subbasement of the ESPN...
- No. 5 ESPN SportsCenter; Popular show's predominantly male prime-time audience...
- Magazine article from: B to B Slavens, Roger November 1, 2005 700+ words
Byline: Roger Slavens "SportsCenter is the single most identifiable...Nearly three-quarters of "SportsCenter's" audience is male, Koskovolis...according to Nielsen," he said. "SportsCenter" has also become a very important...
- ESPN Eyes 'SportsCenter' Sales Score.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Magazine article from: Multichannel News FORKAN, JIM March 20, 2000 700+ words
...that its uptick in local avails within SportsCenter -- already "selling like hotcakes...Time Warner Cable New York City, said SportsCenter is consistently "one of the most well...Grow said, she's also pitching SportsCenter avails to some nontraditional accounts...
- SportsCenter Enters Middle Age.
- Magazine article from: Cable World August 19, 2002 700+ words
...check). But 25,000 editions of SportsCenter over the last 23 years? This one seems...anticlimactic, as in: "That's all?" When SportsCenter was launched on September 7, 1979...among many. More live editions of SportsCenter have aired than any other TV show...
- Haggard to play at Sportscenter: Promoters: Successful concert could show need...
- Newspaper article from: Messenger-Inquirer (Owensboro, KY) April 4, 2007 700+ words
...MERLE" at 8 p.m. Aug. 2 at the Sportscenter. Heath Eric, marketing director for...000 to 5,000 people to the city and Sportscenter. Second, a successful concert could prove the Sportscenter a viable tourism-driving entity...
