Thread Rating:
09-13-2012, 11:27 PM
Game On! honors Thursday's airing of the 50,000th episode of SportsCenter with a list of five things you may not know about the record-setting ESPN show.
1. SportsCenter debuted on Sept. 7, 1979 (the first score given on the program: Chris Evert Lloyd defeats Billie Jean King 6-1, 6-0 in the U.S. Open semifinals.) A little over 16 years later, it passed The CBS Evening News as the most-televised live show in history. Multiple daily airings for over three decades add up. SportsCenter now has nearly double the amount of episodes as the CBS news program.
2. John Colby, the composer of the famous dah-dah-dah musical intro, got his job at ESPN by cold-calling a network executive. His theme song debuted in 1989 and has been used in some variation ever since. Colby receives no royalties from use of the song.
3. Only the Kardashians can outdo ESPN in the self-promotion department (you may have heard about its 30th anniversary a few thousand times), so the fact that the network didn't mention that Thursday's 6 p.m. ET show was the program's 50,000th for more than 20 minutes was a remarkably display of restraint. Even more impressive was that when the network finally did bring it up, it wasn't in a self-congratulatory way, but to intro a moving tribute by Chris Berman to the late Tom Mees.
4. When Charlie Steiner first started at SportsCenter, his beard had to go through an approval process by ESPN brass. As Steiner told Bleacher Report's Dan Levy, he was unaware of this until a producer told him he could keep it.
5. John Clayton's SportsCenter commercial is fantastic, as most of the "This Is SportsCenter" are. For all the great clips, from Grant Hill playing piano to the New Jersey Devil taking the down elevator to everything with Steiner, this one still takes the cake:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/...FKh_rKPWyg
1. SportsCenter debuted on Sept. 7, 1979 (the first score given on the program: Chris Evert Lloyd defeats Billie Jean King 6-1, 6-0 in the U.S. Open semifinals.) A little over 16 years later, it passed The CBS Evening News as the most-televised live show in history. Multiple daily airings for over three decades add up. SportsCenter now has nearly double the amount of episodes as the CBS news program.
2. John Colby, the composer of the famous dah-dah-dah musical intro, got his job at ESPN by cold-calling a network executive. His theme song debuted in 1989 and has been used in some variation ever since. Colby receives no royalties from use of the song.
3. Only the Kardashians can outdo ESPN in the self-promotion department (you may have heard about its 30th anniversary a few thousand times), so the fact that the network didn't mention that Thursday's 6 p.m. ET show was the program's 50,000th for more than 20 minutes was a remarkably display of restraint. Even more impressive was that when the network finally did bring it up, it wasn't in a self-congratulatory way, but to intro a moving tribute by Chris Berman to the late Tom Mees.
4. When Charlie Steiner first started at SportsCenter, his beard had to go through an approval process by ESPN brass. As Steiner told Bleacher Report's Dan Levy, he was unaware of this until a producer told him he could keep it.
5. John Clayton's SportsCenter commercial is fantastic, as most of the "This Is SportsCenter" are. For all the great clips, from Grant Hill playing piano to the New Jersey Devil taking the down elevator to everything with Steiner, this one still takes the cake:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/...FKh_rKPWyg
![[-]](https://bluegrassrivals.com/forum/images/lifestyle/collapse.png)
09-14-2012, 01:30 AM
Whatever happend to that show they did a few years back where it took the average guy and tried to make him an achor man, and the winner got a job with ESPN?
Cant ever remember the name of it...
Cant ever remember the name of it...
09-14-2012, 10:42 AM
RunItUpTheGut Wrote:Whatever happend to that show they did a few years back where it took the average guy and tried to make him an achor man, and the winner got a job with ESPN?Dream Job?
Cant ever remember the name of it...
Dude was working on ESPNU a lot when i last saw him lol.
09-14-2012, 12:49 PM
Panther Thunder Wrote:Dream Job?
Dude was working on ESPNU a lot when i last saw him lol.
That may have been it.
Also like stump the schwab.
Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)
