Sportscenter Review and Breakdown

ESPN started as the half-witted brainchild of former sportscast Bill Rasmussen in 1978. The idea of a total sports network seemed to be farfetched to a number of people, but on September 7, 1979 ESPN debuted. The flagship show of the network is clearly SportsCenter. 

The hour-long show runs once at 6 PM CST once at 1AM CST and then goes on a marathon from 5AM-Noon CST, which makes for nine hours of SportsCenter everyday. That all started from some basic sportscast which only lasted 30 minutes when it first started in 1979.

Now a days the show is locally produced in seven different countries outside of the United States including Brazil, Canada, China, India, Latin America and Taiwan. These local broadcasts reach over 60 countries and are watched by approximately 85 million households. 

ESPN has also stretched itself into ESPN2, the place where they put lesser sports on, ESPN Classic, old classic sports go here, ESPNNEWS, the day’s sporting news is on here kind of like a continuous SportsCenter, ESPNU, the new network devoted to college sports, ESPN.com, the networks official website with all the sporting news and columns that anyone could ask for, and ESPN Radio, which is all sports-talk radio all the time. 

The current SportsCenter show is a trendsetter in popular culture. Most anchors are all about having clever sayings that will make you laugh or just finding humorous. Some purists will argue that there is very little substance in the show, which I believe, is true. That commentary usually gets a laugh out of me, which is one of the reasons I watch it. If I just wanted to get scores and stats I can go and look at the newspaper, but I want something that will entertain me. 

Therefore, in this there will be an in-depth look at how much substance is involved in the show. In addition, a number of people find the personalities on the show annoying. It is true it does seem like there are some anchors that try a little too hard, but those are usually the inexperienced rookies. The great thing about the show is that all the anchors really seem like they enjoy their jobs and genuinely want to be there.