Sports Tonight (CNN)
''Sports Tonight'' is an American sports news television program that aired on CNN from 1980 to 2001, and on CNN Sports Illustrated, CNN/SI from December 12, 1996 to the channel's demise on May 15, 2002. It normally aired at 11 p.m. ET/10 p.m. CT. 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 (1968–1984), 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 (sportscaster), 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, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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CNN Sports Illustrated
CNN/Sports Illustrated (CNN/SI) was a 24-hour sports news Television network, network. Created when Time Warner merged its CNN and ''Sports Illustrated'' brands, it launched on December 12, 1996. Other news networks like ESPNews provided 30-minute blocks of news and highlights in a similar fashion to CNN Headline News at the time, but CNN/SI was live daily from 7am to 2am. Its purpose was to provide the most comprehensive sports news service on television, bringing in-depth sports news from around the world, and integrating the internet and television. Closure CNN/SI's closure had been attributed to competition with other all-sports news networks and sports newscasts which started around the same time, such as ESPNews and Fox Sports Net's ''National Sports Report''. Though CNN/SI aired exclusive content, such as the tape of former Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana University coach Bob Knight choking player Neil Reed, the channel reached only 20 million homes, not adequate ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Don Lemon Tonight
''Don Lemon Tonight'' (formerly ''CNN Tonight with Don Lemon'') is a late evening news commentary program which aired from 2021 until its cancellation in 2022 on CNN, hosted by Don Lemon. The show aired on weeknights live from 10:00pm to midnight ET. History ''CNN Tonight'' first premiered in April 2014, being introduced amid a revision to CNN's primetime schedule (including the replacement of the canceled '' Piers Morgan Live'' with CNN original series and specials in the 9 p.m. hour). The series was first promoted as featuring rotating anchors presenting "a live hour of the day’s biggest stories". The program would be initially hosted by Bill Weir using the former ''Piers Morgan Live'' studio. The ''CNN Tonight'' title had previously been used for a short-lived program in 2001 anchored by Bill Hemmer, and a transitional program that temporarily filled the time slot of ''Lou Dobbs Tonight'' after Lou Dobbs' resignation from the network in November 2009 (the timeslo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bob Lorenz
Robert "Bob" Lorenz (born October 2, 1963) is an American television anchor. He is the primary studio host on the YES Network, and hosts the New York Yankees pregame and postgame shows on YES telecasts, as well as Brooklyn Nets pregame and postgame shows for cablecasts. Lorenz also hosts other shows on YES, including Yankees Hot Stove, a show that tracks the offseason movement of the Yankees and the rest of the teams in MLB. Lorenz has done play-by-play of YES Network's coverage of NCAA football as well as Staten Island Yankees games. Career Early career Lorenz worked for KIEM-TV in Eureka and WPTV-TV in West Palm Beach. He later joined CNN Sports Illustrated. Also, he worked for TBS and TNT hosting various sporting event studio shows. Lorenz hosted CNN's weekly baseball show, CNN's ''College Football Preview'', ''College Basketball Preview'', ''College Coach's Corner'', and CNN's ''NFL Preview''. He was also a back-up host on '' Inside the NBA'' on TNT. YES Network He hosts ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Daryn Kagan
Daryn A. Kagan is an American broadcast journalist who was formerly a news anchor for CNN. From 1994 to 2006, Kagan served as an anchor and correspondent for CNN, in CNN's corporate headquarters of Atlanta, Georgia. She anchored ''CNN Live Today'' shown from 10am-12pm Eastern Time for eight years. She also served as host of the CNN/''People'' news entertainment program, '' People in the News'', and earlier served as a CNN sports reporter and anchor. Biography Early life Kagan grew up in a secular Jewish family in Beverly Hills, California. She is a 1981 graduate of Beverly Hills High School where she ran cross-country, and a 1985 graduate of Stanford University. Career After graduating from Stanford, Kagan sent out hundreds of demo tapes. She was hired for an on-air job at a Santa Barbara television station, KEYT-TV. From there, she moved to a general assignment reporting position at KTVK, which is based in Phoenix, where she went on to take the additional role of weekend ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jim Huber
Jim Huber (August 28, 1944 – January 2, 2012) was an American sports commentator, writer, and essayist. He worked as a sports anchor for the former CNN Sports Illustrated, before joining Turner Sports in 2000. Huber was raised in Ocala, Florida. He attended Presbyterian College, but graduated from University of Central Florida. He began his career in sports journalism as a sportswriter for ''The Miami News'' and ''The Atlanta Journal''. He joined WXIA in Atlanta, before moving to CNN. Huber was also Public Relations Director for the Atlanta Flames from 1972 until 1975. Huber had a long history with the Turner Broadcasting Corporation. Huber first joined CNN in 1984, where he hosted a sports show called ''The Sporting Life With Jim Huber''. He also contributed to CNN Sports Illustrated, a sister network of CNN, as an anchor and sports announcer. In 2000, Huber became a full-time on-air announcer and commentator for Turner Sports, which allowed him to cover both golf and the Nat ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dan Hicks (sportscaster)
John Daniel Hicks (born June 2, 1962) is an American sportscaster for NBC Sports, covering various sports including Notre Dame college football and the PGA Tour (PGA). Early years Born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, Hicks graduated from Sabino High School in 1980 and from the University of Arizona in 1984. After starting in radio, he was a weekend sports anchor on KVOA, the NBC affiliate in Tucson. Hicks moved east to work as a sports reporter for CNN in Atlanta in 1989 and went to NBC Sports in 1992. NBC Sports College Football Hicks took over as play-by-play commentator for Notre Dame football in 2013, replacing Tom Hammond. Hicks continued to call NBC's Notre Dame package through the 2016 season. At the start of the 2017 season, Hicks was replaced by Mike Tirico. After a seven-season hiatus, NBC announced Hicks will return to the Notre Dame package for the 2024 season. NFL Hicks was a play-by-play announcer for the '' NFL on NBC'' starting in 1992, continuing unti ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mike Galanos
Mike Galanos (born November 7, 1964) is a former American news anchor for HLN, currently appearing as part of the team on '' Morning Express with Robin Meade''. Based in CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta, Galanos joined the network in May 2002. He graduated ''summa cum laude'' from San Francisco State University. Galanos was the local sports anchor on KTVN-TV in Reno, Nevada from 1991 to 1994 with Ric Renner as the weekend anchor, and was well known for his excellent knowledge of sports in northern Nevada. Early life and career Galanos was born November 7, 1964. He is of Greek origin. He started out as a news cameraman, teleprompter operator and video journalist at CNN Headline News for news anchors Don Harrison and Bobbie Battista in the late 1980s. Then he moved to Reno, Nevada and was the on air sports commentator and reporter for KOLO TV. After leaving Reno, he moved up the ranks to CNN Sports Illustrated as an anchor but later Galanos was at CNN Headline News,as a gene ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Steve Berthiaume
Steve Berthiaume () is an American television sportscaster who serves as the play-by-play broadcast announcer for the Arizona Diamondbacks and is a former anchor on ESPN and a former sportscaster for SportsNet New York (SNY). Broadcasting career Early career A graduate of Emerson College, Berthiaume's broadcasting career began at various stations in the southern United States, including WVIR-TV in Charlottesville, Virginia; WIS-TV in Columbia, South Carolina; WJAR-TV in Providence, Rhode Island; and WEAR-TV in Pensacola, Florida. Berthiaume was hired from Pensacola by WTIC-TV in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1993; station management dismissed him in January 1996 due to what Berthiaume described as a disagreement over presentation styles. He then went on to the short-lived CNN/SI cable channel when it launched in December 1996 and to ESPN in 1999, starting at ESPNEWS and later anchoring for ''SportsCenter''. In 2006, Berthiaume left ESPN to become chief sportscaster at SNY, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933, ''Daily Variety'' was launched, based in Los Angeles, to cover the film industry, motion-picture industry. ''Variety'' website features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, plus a credits database, production charts and film calendar. History Founding ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville, with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. He subsequently decided to start his own publication that, he said, would "not be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father-in-law, he launched ''Variety'' as publisher and editor. In additi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Coy Wire
Coy Michael Wire (born November 7, 1978) is an American television anchor and correspondent as well as a former professional football player in the National Football League (NFL). Since 2015, he has worked for CNN as a sports anchor and correspondent, and currently is the anchor of CNN 10, a student-oriented news show. Wire was a linebacker and safety who played college football for Stanford. He played six seasons for the Buffalo Bills from 2002 to 2007 and three seasons for the Atlanta Falcons from 2008 to 2010. With CNN, Wire's many field assignments have included on-the-ground coverage of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, the College Football Playoff Semi-Finals and National Championship games, and Super Bowl 50. Early life Wire attended Rice Elementary in the South Middleton School District. Highland Elementary School, Lemoyne Middle School, and Cedar Cliff High School, all in the West Shore School District. He graduated from Cedar Cliff in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania in 199 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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TruTV
TruTV (stylized as truTV) is an American basic cable Television channel, channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The channel primarily broadcasts reruns of Television comedy, comedy, Reality television, docusoaps and reality shows, with a recent strong primetime focus on live sports. The channel was originally launched on December 14, 1990 as Court TV, a network that focused on crime-themed programs such as true crime documentary series, legal dramas, and coverage of prominent criminal cases. The channel was initially a joint venture between Time Warner, Cablevision, American Lawyer Media, Liberty Media, and GE, with Liberty joining the venture a year after its launch in 1991. By 2005, Liberty Media and Time Warner had purchased ALM, Cablevision and GE's stakes in Court TV. Time Warner subsequently bought out Liberty's share in 2006 for $735 million, and brought the channel under the Turner Broadcasting System. In 2008, the channel relaunched as TruTV, changing its focus to ac ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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TNT Sports (United States)
TNT Sports is the division of Warner Bros. Discovery in the United States that is responsible for sports broadcasts on its parent company's streaming service, Max, and primarily the TruTV, TBS, and TNT cable channels. The division also operates the online digital media outlets for the NCAA, NBA, PGA Tour, and PGA of America; the sports news website Bleacher Report; NBA TV, on behalf of the NBA; and also owns a minority share in MLB Network. Its name originates from the TV network TNT. TNT Sports' formation dates back to the 1970s as the sports division of Turner Broadcasting System's basic cable networks, with separate TNT Sports and TBS Sports brands for TNT and TBS, respectively. A unified Turner Sports brand was then introduced in 1995, followed by Turner Broadcasting merging into Time Warner in 1996. Following AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner in 2018 (which would become WarnerMedia), Turner Sports was combined with CNN and AT&T SportsNet into a new division known as War ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |