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SportsCentre

January 01, 1970

This article is about the Canadian TSN show. For the American ESPN show, see SportsCenter. For the Scottish STV show, see STV Sports Centre.

SportsCentre (SC) is a Canadian daily sports news television program sports news television program, and the flagship program on TSN. The program airs several times daily TSN feeds, and on weekends on CTV.

SportsCentre
Also known asSportsDesk
(original title; 1984–2001)
Based onSportsCenter by Chet Simmons and ESPN
Presented bySee below
Opening theme"Pulstar" (1984–1990) "SportsCenter Theme" (1990–present)
Ending themeSame as opening
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
Production
Production locations9 Channel Nine Court,
Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running timeVaries; usually 60+ minutes
Production companyTSN
Original release
NetworkTSN (1984–present)
CTV (2007–2020, Weekends)
ReleaseSeptember 1, 1984 (1984-09-01) –
present

History edit

The program was launched under its original title SportsDesk the same day as TSN itself debuted, on September 1, 1984. It retained that title until September 5, 2001, when the program was relaunched under a similar look and format to American cable network ESPN's flagship sportscast SportsCenter, with the title rendered in Canadian spelling. It also uses the current ESPN SportsCenter theme. The change in name occurred after majority ownership in TSN had been turned over to CTV the previous year when it acquired 80% of the network; the transaction required the approval of existing minority shareholder ESPN, which did so on the condition that TSN align its branding and programming more closely with ESPN's, and with it, also introducing a new logo that was akin to that of ESPN's. Since relaunching as SportsCentre, the program has normally originated from the CTV (now Bell Media) Agincourt studios at 9 Channel Nine Court in Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario.

On September 25, 2006, SportsCentre began broadcasting in high definition. At that time, TSN expressed hopes to have all reports from its bureaus in HD in the near future.[1]

In the early 2010s, the program drew significant attention, including from media in the United States, for its 1 a.m. ET/morning-loop anchor team of Jay Onrait and Dan O'Toole, which had taken the program in a much more irreverent and comedic direction. The Wall Street Journal published a feature story on the pair titled "Why Can't We Have Canada's 'SportsCentre'?", which compared the Onrait-O'Toole pairing to the likes of 1990s ESPN SportsCenter anchors Keith Olbermann and Craig Kilborn.[2]

The attention eventually led to Onrait, O'Toole, and their longtime producer Tim Moriarty all being hired by Fox Sports in the U.S. to help launch its new national cable channel Fox Sports 1 in 2013.[3] Onrait and O'Toole served as hosts of Fox Sports Live, which was initially a competitor to the U.S. version of SportsCenter on ESPN (and later relaunched as a sports-oriented talk show), until February 2017 when Fox cancelled the show and allowed their contracts to expire.[4] Jay and Dan were later rehired by TSN becoming the anchors of a new rebranded midnight ET edition of SportsCentre, SC with Jay and Dan.[5]

Kraft Celebration Tour edit

From 2009 to 2014, for ten days in late August and/or early September of each year, SportsCentre travelled to ten communities across Canada under the banner of the "Kraft Celebration Tour". Two teams of anchors, one starting in the East and the other in the West, broadcast on alternating days during the tour. Each of the ten host communities received a minimum C$25,000 grant from Kraft Foods to support a community project related to sports or active living.

Host communities were nominated by local residents and submissions are reviewed by a TSN/Kraft judging panel. From 2009 to 2013, the panel named the top 20 finalists each year (10 pairs of two) which were reduced to the ten hosts via online voting. In 2014, the judging panel named all ten hosts directly, with the public instead voting on the winner of a new $100,000 grand prize, and the nine other communities winning $25,000 as before.[6] While the main judging criteria were related to the value of the proposed project and overall submission quality, production logistics and "the need to create a viable cross-Canada tour" were also considerations.[7] The majority of provinces were represented each year, though some provinces sometimes had multiple hosts per year, meaning that smaller provinces (most frequently one or more in Atlantic Canada) were skipped in some years. No community in the territories was selected prior to 2013, when Fort Smith, Northwest Territories was selected in online voting over Whitehorse, Yukon.

In 2015, the Kraft Celebration Tour was replaced with a new initiative, Kraft Project Play, which involves increased funding for community projects, but no longer includes live on-location broadcasts of SportsCentre.[8]

2020 coronavirus pandemic reaction edit

Main article: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports

On March 11, 2020, the NBA announced that it would suspend its season indefinitely following the conclusion of that night's games as a result of Rudy Gobert testing positive for COVID-19 before a game between the Utah Jazz and the Oklahoma City Thunder in Oklahoma City, which caused the game to be initially postponed. The following day, all of the other major sports leagues followed suit in suspending their seasons for an indefinite period in order to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, and other sporting events were also canceled after plans to hold them without an audience fell through. After the cancellations were announced, TSN aired special editions of the program chronicling the effects of the pandemic and its impact on sporting events and the athletes' reactions to the pandemic via social media.

Following a hiatus of original broadcasts, production of SportsCentre and SC with Jay and Dan resumed on April 6, 2020, with anchors and editorial staff working from their homes.[9] Studio production of SportsCentre resumed in mid-June 2020. Airings of ESPN's SportsCenter and Get Up! were also added to the TSN schedule to provide supplemental news content.

Scheduling edit

TSN generally produces three editions of SportsCentre each day, all of which are usually at least one hour in length: early evening (6:00 p.m. ET), late evening in the East (typically 10:00 p.m. ET), and late evening in the West (1:00 a.m. ET). The latter broadcast is repeated on an hourly loop throughout the overnight and morning hours, typically running until 1:00 p.m. ET. Since the launch of TSN2 in 2008, some editions (and repeats) have occasionally aired on that channel in the event of programming conflicts on TSN. TSN has gradually increased the length and, in some cases, repetition of SportsCentre broadcasts such that the program is now sometimes carried for up to 16.5 hours out of the day (including "morning loop" repeats) on either TSN or TSN2 (this is similar to the expansion of SportsCenter broadcasts on ESPN since 2008, although with fewer live telecasts).

For a time, TSN2 also carried an abbreviated highlights-only broadcast called SportsCentre Morning Rush, which aired on a 15-minute loop during the morning hours. This program has since been replaced with TSN Radio simulcasts and repeats of other TSN-produced programs such as That's Hockey 2Nite.

Beginning with the 2007 NFL season, extra editions have been produced for sister network CTV as its post-game program for early-window Sunday afternoon NFL games. On weekends, CTV also airs repeats of the previous night's late edition of SportsCentre at noon local time.

On September 4, 2017, a new midnight ET edition, SC with Jay and Dan was introduced, which was hosted by Jay Onrait and Dan O'Toole as a distinct version of their previous tenure as late-night anchors of the program prior to their move to Fox Sports 1.[10] On February 2, 2021, Bell Media (TSN's majority owner) released O'Toole from the program, re-naming it SC with Jay Onrait.

Format edit

For a 60-minute broadcast, the first half-hour typically contains highlights for the day's biggest events, sometimes with a weekly feature (such as "Plays of the Week" or "Ultimate SC") towards the end of that half-hour. The first segment of the second half-hour typically returns to the top two or three stories with packaged reports and/or panel analysis, which is followed by additional highlights and other features. Some highlights segments are given individual names at their conclusion (for example, "NHL Wrap-Up" or "Golf Report") for the apparent sole purpose of providing sponsorship opportunities related to those sports and are otherwise indistinguishable from the rest of the show.

The second-to-last segment traditionally contains two daily features: the "Honour Roll", which is a collection of the best plays of the day in no particular order, and (on weeknights) the "SportsCentre Top 10", a countdown of past sports highlights with some theme, typically related to a recent sports event (typical topics might include: "Game 6 Performances Forcing a Game 7", "Odd Celebrity Moments", or "Objects Thrown by Spectators"; the Friday night/Saturday morning topic is almost always "Top 10 Must-See Moments" of the past week). This differs from ESPN's SportsCenter Top 10, which is usually just the top 10 plays of the day. The final segment includes the "Worst Play of the Day" and the "Highlight of the Night", the latter chosen from the Honour Roll highlights.

In 2014, an online-poll feature titled "1v1", sponsored by Ram Trucks, was added to the closing segment of SportsCentre five nights per week (Sunday night/Monday morning through Thursday/Friday). Each day's poll pairs a reigning "champion" highlight (with a ten-day maximum) with a "challenger" (usually that edition's Highlight of the Night). This caused the Highlight of the Night announcement to be moved to the second-last segment right after the Top 10, and later the Honour Roll to be moved to the third-last segment. The traditional format is still used Friday and Saturday nights (Saturday and Sunday mornings).

The early-evening (6:00 p.m. ET) edition varies from the above format slightly as it mostly previews the night's games and covers other off-field sports news, along with any daytime highlights. The second half-hour is largely a repeat of the first, with the exception of some features such as the extra segment of Pardon the Interruption produced for ESPN's SportsCenter in the first half, and the "Honour Roll Encore" (a repeat of the previous night's set of top highlights) at the end of the broadcast.

On-air staff edit

"Jermain Franklin" redirects here. Not to be confused with Jermaine Franklin.

Current anchors edit

Former anchors edit

References edit

  1. ^ TSN - Canada's Sports Leader
  2. ^ Connors, Will (2012-07-18). "Why Can't We Have Canada's 'SportsCentre'?". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2013-07-12.
  3. ^ Deitsch, Richard (2013-05-27). "Headed South: Fox Sports 1 takes on SportsCenter with a Canadian one-two". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 2013-07-12.
  4. ^ Bonesteel, Matt (February 23, 2017). "FS1 blows up its late night: 'Fox Sports Live' canceled, Katie Nolan in limbo". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  5. ^ Mudhar, Raju (2017-03-01). "Jay Onrait and Dan O'Toole returning to TSN in September". The Toronto Star. ISSN 0319-0781. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  6. ^ Kraft Canada; The Sports Network. "Kraft Celebration Tour 2014: Official Rules". Retrieved 2014-07-08.
  7. ^ Kraft Canada; The Sports Network. "Kraft Celebration Tour: Official Rules". Retrieved 2013-07-12.
  8. ^ Kraft Canada. "Kraft Project Play". Retrieved 2015-05-04.
  9. ^ "TSN Resumes Production of SPORTSCENTRE and SC WITH JAY AND DAN PRESENTED BY MCDONALDS, Beginning April 6".
  10. ^ "Jay and Dan return to Scarborough parking lot roots". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2017-09-05.
  11. ^ "Sarah Davis". TSN. Retrieved November 26, 2022.
  12. ^ "Glenn Schiiler". TSN. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
  13. ^ "Kara Wagland". TSN. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
  14. ^ a b "An Ugly Message: Gurdeep Ahluwalia And Nabil Karim Targeted By Racist Tweets While Hosting 'SportsCe". CBC. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
  15. ^ Zelkovich, Chris (July 16, 2004). "Ex-Jays broadcaster shining on ESPN". No. Toronto Star. Torstar Syndication Services.
  16. ^ Finn, Chad (November 9, 2012). "NESN nets a Hextall". The Boston Globe. Globe Newspaper Company, Inc.
  17. ^ Hickey, Pat (October 7, 2000). "Worst fears about CTV takeover unfounded". The Gazette. Infomart.
  18. ^ McKee, Ken (February 17, 1989). "Good female sportscasters are indeed a rare breed". Toronto Star. Torstar Syndication Services.
  19. ^ a b O'Neil, Jay (March 18, 1995). "City might supply TSN replacement". Edmonton Journal. Infomart.

External links edit

  • Official website

January 01, 1970
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This article is about the Canadian TSN show For the American ESPN show see SportsCenter For the Scottish STV show see STV Sports Centre SportsCentre SC is a Canadian daily sports news television program sports news television program and the flagship program on TSN The program airs several times daily TSN feeds and on weekends on CTV SportsCentreAlso known asSportsDesk original title 1984 2001 Based onSportsCenter by Chet Simmons and ESPNPresented bySee belowOpening theme Pulstar 1984 1990 SportsCenter Theme 1990 present Ending themeSame as openingCountry of originCanadaOriginal languageEnglishProductionProduction locations9 Channel Nine Court Scarborough Toronto OntarioCamera setupMulti cameraRunning timeVaries usually 60 minutesProduction companyTSNOriginal releaseNetworkTSN 1984 present CTV 2007 2020 Weekends ReleaseSeptember 1 1984 1984 09 01 present Contents 1 History 1 1 Kraft Celebration Tour 1 2 2020 coronavirus pandemic reaction 2 Scheduling 3 Format 4 On air staff 4 1 Current anchors 4 2 Former anchors 5 References 6 External linksHistory editThe program was launched under its original title SportsDesk the same day as TSN itself debuted on September 1 1984 It retained that title until September 5 2001 when the program was relaunched under a similar look and format to American cable network ESPN s flagship sportscast SportsCenter with the title rendered in Canadian spelling It also uses the current ESPN SportsCenter theme The change in name occurred after majority ownership in TSN had been turned over to CTV the previous year when it acquired 80 of the network the transaction required the approval of existing minority shareholder ESPN which did so on the condition that TSN align its branding and programming more closely with ESPN s and with it also introducing a new logo that was akin to that of ESPN s Since relaunching as SportsCentre the program has normally originated from the CTV now Bell Media Agincourt studios at 9 Channel Nine Court in Scarborough Toronto Ontario On September 25 2006 SportsCentre began broadcasting in high definition At that time TSN expressed hopes to have all reports from its bureaus in HD in the near future 1 In the early 2010s the program drew significant attention including from media in the United States for its 1 a m ET morning loop anchor team of Jay Onrait and Dan O Toole which had taken the program in a much more irreverent and comedic direction The Wall Street Journal published a feature story on the pair titled Why Can t We Have Canada s SportsCentre which compared the Onrait O Toole pairing to the likes of 1990s ESPN SportsCenter anchors Keith Olbermann and Craig Kilborn 2 The attention eventually led to Onrait O Toole and their longtime producer Tim Moriarty all being hired by Fox Sports in the U S to help launch its new national cable channel Fox Sports 1 in 2013 3 Onrait and O Toole served as hosts of Fox Sports Live which was initially a competitor to the U S version of SportsCenter on ESPN and later relaunched as a sports oriented talk show until February 2017 when Fox cancelled the show and allowed their contracts to expire 4 Jay and Dan were later rehired by TSN becoming the anchors of a new rebranded midnight ET edition of SportsCentre SC with Jay and Dan 5 Kraft Celebration Tour edit From 2009 to 2014 for ten days in late August and or early September of each year SportsCentre travelled to ten communities across Canada under the banner of the Kraft Celebration Tour Two teams of anchors one starting in the East and the other in the West broadcast on alternating days during the tour Each of the ten host communities received a minimum C 25 000 grant from Kraft Foods to support a community project related to sports or active living Host communities were nominated by local residents and submissions are reviewed by a TSN Kraft judging panel From 2009 to 2013 the panel named the top 20 finalists each year 10 pairs of two which were reduced to the ten hosts via online voting In 2014 the judging panel named all ten hosts directly with the public instead voting on the winner of a new 100 000 grand prize and the nine other communities winning 25 000 as before 6 While the main judging criteria were related to the value of the proposed project and overall submission quality production logistics and the need to create a viable cross Canada tour were also considerations 7 The majority of provinces were represented each year though some provinces sometimes had multiple hosts per year meaning that smaller provinces most frequently one or more in Atlantic Canada were skipped in some years No community in the territories was selected prior to 2013 when Fort Smith Northwest Territories was selected in online voting over Whitehorse Yukon In 2015 the Kraft Celebration Tour was replaced with a new initiative Kraft Project Play which involves increased funding for community projects but no longer includes live on location broadcasts of SportsCentre 8 2020 coronavirus pandemic reaction edit Main article Impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on sports On March 11 2020 the NBA announced that it would suspend its season indefinitely following the conclusion of that night s games as a result of Rudy Gobert testing positive for COVID 19 before a game between the Utah Jazz and the Oklahoma City Thunder in Oklahoma City which caused the game to be initially postponed The following day all of the other major sports leagues followed suit in suspending their seasons for an indefinite period in order to combat the COVID 19 pandemic and other sporting events were also canceled after plans to hold them without an audience fell through After the cancellations were announced TSN aired special editions of the program chronicling the effects of the pandemic and its impact on sporting events and the athletes reactions to the pandemic via social media Following a hiatus of original broadcasts production of SportsCentre and SC with Jay and Dan resumed on April 6 2020 with anchors and editorial staff working from their homes 9 Studio production of SportsCentre resumed in mid June 2020 Airings of ESPN s SportsCenter and Get Up were also added to the TSN schedule to provide supplemental news content Scheduling editTSN generally produces three editions of SportsCentre each day all of which are usually at least one hour in length early evening 6 00 p m ET late evening in the East typically 10 00 p m ET and late evening in the West 1 00 a m ET The latter broadcast is repeated on an hourly loop throughout the overnight and morning hours typically running until 1 00 p m ET Since the launch of TSN2 in 2008 some editions and repeats have occasionally aired on that channel in the event of programming conflicts on TSN TSN has gradually increased the length and in some cases repetition of SportsCentre broadcasts such that the program is now sometimes carried for up to 16 5 hours out of the day including morning loop repeats on either TSN or TSN2 this is similar to the expansion of SportsCenter broadcasts on ESPN since 2008 although with fewer live telecasts For a time TSN2 also carried an abbreviated highlights only broadcast called SportsCentre Morning Rush which aired on a 15 minute loop during the morning hours This program has since been replaced with TSN Radio simulcasts and repeats of other TSN produced programs such as That s Hockey 2Nite Beginning with the 2007 NFL season extra editions have been produced for sister network CTV as its post game program for early window Sunday afternoon NFL games On weekends CTV also airs repeats of the previous night s late edition of SportsCentre at noon local time On September 4 2017 a new midnight ET edition SC with Jay and Dan was introduced which was hosted by Jay Onrait and Dan O Toole as a distinct version of their previous tenure as late night anchors of the program prior to their move to Fox Sports 1 10 On February 2 2021 Bell Media TSN s majority owner released O Toole from the program re naming it SC with Jay Onrait Format editFor a 60 minute broadcast the first half hour typically contains highlights for the day s biggest events sometimes with a weekly feature such as Plays of the Week or Ultimate SC towards the end of that half hour The first segment of the second half hour typically returns to the top two or three stories with packaged reports and or panel analysis which is followed by additional highlights and other features Some highlights segments are given individual names at their conclusion for example NHL Wrap Up or Golf Report for the apparent sole purpose of providing sponsorship opportunities related to those sports and are otherwise indistinguishable from the rest of the show The second to last segment traditionally contains two daily features the Honour Roll which is a collection of the best plays of the day in no particular order and on weeknights the SportsCentre Top 10 a countdown of past sports highlights with some theme typically related to a recent sports event typical topics might include Game 6 Performances Forcing a Game 7 Odd Celebrity Moments or Objects Thrown by Spectators the Friday night Saturday morning topic is almost always Top 10 Must See Moments of the past week This differs from ESPN s SportsCenter Top 10 which is usually just the top 10 plays of the day The final segment includes the Worst Play of the Day and the Highlight of the Night the latter chosen from the Honour Roll highlights In 2014 an online poll feature titled 1v1 sponsored by Ram Trucks was added to the closing segment of SportsCentre five nights per week Sunday night Monday morning through Thursday Friday Each day s poll pairs a reigning champion highlight with a ten day maximum with a challenger usually that edition s Highlight of the Night This caused the Highlight of the Night announcement to be moved to the second last segment right after the Top 10 and later the Honour Roll to be moved to the third last segment The traditional format is still used Friday and Saturday nights Saturday and Sunday mornings The early evening 6 00 p m ET edition varies from the above format slightly as it mostly previews the night s games and covers other off field sports news along with any daytime highlights The second half hour is largely a repeat of the first with the exception of some features such as the extra segment of Pardon the Interruption produced for ESPN s SportsCenter in the first half and the Honour Roll Encore a repeat of the previous night s set of top highlights at the end of the broadcast On air staff edit Jermain Franklin redirects here Not to be confused with Jermaine Franklin Current anchors edit Kate Beirness 2009 present Tessa Bonhomme 2014 present Sarah Davis 2018 present 11 Laura Diakun 2015 present Darren Dutchyshen 1995 present Jermain Franklin 2020 present Kayla Grey 2018 present Lindsay Hamilton 2016 present Jennifer Hedger 2002 present Paul Hollingsworth 2012 present Jay Onrait 2002 2013 2017 present Glenn Schiiler 2013 present 12 Rod Smith 1995 present Kara Wagland 2014 present 13 Mark Roe sportscaster 2015 present Former anchors edit Gurdeep Ahluwalia 2012 2016 14 David Amber Nabil Karim 2012 2019 14 Rod Black Lisa Bowes 1997 1999 Lisa Hillary 15 Brendan Connor 1992 1998 James Cybulski 2009 2011 James Duthie Leah Hextall 16 Holly Horton 2004 2011 Mark Jones Suneel Joshi 17 Teresa Kruze 1986 2000 John Gallagher 1998 2001 Farhan Lalji 1997 2000 Terry Leibel 1984 1986 Michael Landsberg 1984 1997 Diana McDonald 1984 1988 18 Gord Miller Dan O Toole 2003 2013 2017 2021 Dan Pollard David Pratt 1997 2000 Blake Price 2001 2004 2006 2014 2021 Dave Randorf Paul Romanuk Chris Sedens 1991 1994 19 Natasha Staniszewski 2011 2021 Vic Rauter Gino Reda 1988 2001 Derek Taylor 2014 2019 Mike Toth 1997 1998 Jim Van Horne 1984 2001 Peter Watts 19 John Wells 1984 1992 Cory Woron 2000 2024 References edit TSN Canada s Sports Leader Connors Will 2012 07 18 Why Can t We Have Canada s SportsCentre The Wall Street Journal Retrieved 2013 07 12 Deitsch Richard 2013 05 27 Headed South Fox Sports 1 takes on SportsCenter with a Canadian one two Sports Illustrated Retrieved 2013 07 12 Bonesteel Matt February 23 2017 FS1 blows up its late night Fox Sports Live canceled Katie Nolan in limbo The Washington Post Retrieved February 25 2017 Mudhar Raju 2017 03 01 Jay Onrait and Dan O Toole returning to TSN in September The Toronto Star ISSN 0319 0781 Retrieved 2018 01 02 Kraft Canada The Sports Network Kraft Celebration Tour 2014 Official Rules Retrieved 2014 07 08 Kraft Canada The Sports Network Kraft Celebration Tour Official Rules Retrieved 2013 07 12 Kraft Canada Kraft Project Play Retrieved 2015 05 04 TSN Resumes Production of SPORTSCENTRE and SC WITH JAY AND DAN PRESENTED BY MCDONALDS Beginning April 6 Jay and Dan return to Scarborough parking lot roots Toronto Star Retrieved 2017 09 05 Sarah Davis TSN Retrieved November 26 2022 Glenn Schiiler TSN Retrieved February 19 2015 Kara Wagland TSN Retrieved February 19 2015 a b An Ugly Message Gurdeep Ahluwalia And Nabil Karim Targeted By Racist Tweets While Hosting SportsCe CBC Retrieved February 19 2015 Zelkovich Chris July 16 2004 Ex Jays broadcaster shining on ESPN No Toronto Star Torstar Syndication Services Finn Chad November 9 2012 NESN nets a Hextall The Boston Globe Globe Newspaper Company Inc Hickey Pat October 7 2000 Worst fears about CTV takeover unfounded The Gazette Infomart McKee Ken February 17 1989 Good female sportscasters are indeed a rare breed Toronto Star Torstar Syndication Services a b O Neil Jay March 18 1995 City might supply TSN replacement Edmonton Journal Infomart External links editOfficial website nbsp Sports portal nbsp Canada portal Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title SportsCentre amp oldid 1221393263, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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