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Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. Sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determinant of the outcome (winning or losing), but the term is also used to include...
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Hockey Night in Canada

Hockey Night in Canada (often abbreviated Hockey Night or HNIC) is a television broadcast of National Hockey League games in Canada, produced by CBC Sports. Hockey Night has consistently been among the highest-rated programs on Canadian television,...

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  • 1923

HBO Boxing

HBO World Championship Boxing is a sports television series, premiering in January 1973 that has shown a number of significant boxing events in the last three decades. WCB's first event was fought in Kingston, Jamaica, where George Foreman defeated...

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  • Jan 1973

Number of seasons:

  • 33

SportsCenter

SportsCenter is a daily sports news television show, and the flagship program of American cable network ESPN since the network launched on September 7, 1979. Originally airing once per day, SportsCenter is now shown up to twelve times a day,...

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  • Sep 7, 1979

Monday Night Football

Monday Night Football (MNF) is a live television broadcast of the National Football League. Originally airing on the ABC network from 1970 to 2005, Monday Night Football was the second longest running prime time show on American broadcast network...

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Air date of first episode:

  • 1970

Number of episodes:

  • 609

Pardon the Interruption

Pardon the Interruption (abbreviated PTI) is a sports television show that airs weekdays on various ESPN TV channels, TSN, ESPN America, XM, and Sirius satellite radio services, and as a downloadable podcast. It is hosted by Tony Kornheiser and...

Air date of first episode:

  • Oct 22, 2001

Gillette Cavalcade of Sports

The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports was a radio, and later television program that included a variety of sports, although primarily remembered by many for its focus on boxing. The Cavalcade of Sports officially began on radio in 1942 as the Gillette...

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  • Nov 8, 1946

Air date of final episode:

  • Jun 24, 1960

American Gladiators

American Gladiators (1989-1996) was an American competition television program that matched a cast of amateur athletes against each other, as well as against the show's own "gladiators", in contests of strength and agility. The first competition...

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  • Sep 16, 1989

Air date of final episode:

  • May 11, 1996

Original episode running time:

  • 60 min (36 hs )

Number of seasons:

  • 7

Grandstand

Grandstand is a British television sport programme. Broadcast between 1958 and 2007, it is one of the BBC's longest running sports shows, alongside BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Its first presenter was Peter Dimmock. There were only four main...

Air date of first episode:

  • Oct 11, 1958

Air date of final episode:

  • Jan 28, 2007

Gladiators

Gladiators is a British television series produced by LWT for ITV from 10 October 1992 to 1 January 2000. It is an adaptation of the United States game show American Gladiators. An Australian spin-off and a Swedish one followed. A revival of the...

Air date of first episode:

  • Oct 10, 1992

Air date of final episode:

  • Jan 1, 2000

Original episode running time:

  • 60 min (36 hs )

Number of episodes:

  • 132

Pot Black

Pot Black was a UK televised snooker tournament that played a large part in the popularisation of the modern game. In the late 1960s the BBC started broadcasting in colour, and were looking for programmes that could exploit this new technology. The...

Air date of first episode:

  • Jul 23, 1969

The Contender

The Contender is a reality television series that follows a group of boxers as they compete with one another in an elimination-style competition, while their lives and relationships with each other and their families are depicted. Produced by Mark...

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  • Mar 7, 2005

Air date of final episode:

  • 2005

Original episode running time:

  • 60 min (36 hs )

Around the Horn

Around the Horn (sometimes abbreviated ATH) is a daily, half-hour sports talk program on ESPN filmed in Washington, D.C. It airs at 5:00 pm ET, as part of a sports talk hour with Pardon the Interruption. It is a production of ESPN Original...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Nov 4, 2002

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Scotsport

Scotsport was a Scottish sports television programme, broadcast on STV in northern and central Scotland, as well as on Border Television in southern Scotland. It was recognised as the world's longest running sports television magazine. The show...

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  • Sep 18, 1957

Air date of final episode:

  • May 22, 2008

A Question of Sport

A Question of Sport is a long-running BBC quiz show which started on 2 December 1968 and continues to this day. It involves two teams of sports stars answering questions on their own and other sports. Each team has a resident captain, each of whom...

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  • Jan 5, 1970

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

International King of Sports

International King of Sports is a multi-event sports competition held yearly. The events are unusual sports rarely undertaken outside of this competition and are often variants of standard track and field sports. Australian Adam Horder was the...

Air date of first episode:

  • Sep 15, 2002

One Tree Hill

One Tree Hill is an American teen, young adult television drama created by Mark Schwahn, which premiered on September 23, 2003 on The WB Television Network. After its third season, The WB merged with UPN to form The CW Television Network, and since...

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  • Sep 23, 2003

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  • 6

Number of episodes:

  • 118

The George Michael Sports Machine

The George Michael Sports Machine was a syndicated, sports-related television program which aired from 1984 until 2007. The show was hosted George Michael, a former radio disc jockey-turned television sports anchor, and was produced at WRC-TV, the...

Air date of first episode:

  • 1980

Air date of final episode:

  • Mar 25, 2007

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

I, Max

I, Max was a sports commentary show featuring host Max Kellerman and Michael Holley that aired nightly on Fox Sports Net. The concept of the show involved Kellerman and his ego (explaining the name of the show) against the world, represented by...

Air date of first episode:

  • 2004

Air date of final episode:

  • Feb 18, 2005

Cheap Seats

Cheap Seats without Ron Parker (commonly shortened to Cheap Seats) was a television program broadcast on ESPN Classic hosted by brothers Randy and Jason Sklar. The brothers appear as fictional ESPN tape librarians who amuse themselves by watching...

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  • Feb 4, 2004

Air date of final episode:

  • Nov 19, 2006

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Number of episodes:

  • 77

Outside the Lines

Outside the Lines, or also referred to as OTL, is an Emmy Award-winning television program on ESPN that looks "outside the lines" and examines critical issues in American sports on and off the field of play. The primary host of the show, since it...

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Air date of first episode:

  • May 1990

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

NFL on CBS

The NFL on CBS is the brand name of the CBS television network's coverage of the National Football League's games wherein the road team is from the American Football Conference, produced by CBS Sports. As with Fox's coverage, the network's stations...

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  • 1956

The Best Damn Sports Show Period

The Best Damn Sports Show Period was a sports television show on Fox Sports Net and Comcast SportsNet. The show regularly featured irreverent and opinionated interviews with top athletes, coaches, celebrities, and entertainers. It also aired Top 50...

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  • Jul 23, 2001

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  • Jun 30, 2009

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Pet Star

Pet Star is a show on Animal Planet hosted by Mario Lopez. It concerns trained pets who do special acts and tricks with their owners during the show. The tricks are graded by three judges on a scale of one to 10. In the end, the three pets with the...

Air date of first episode:

  • 2002

Air date of final episode:

  • 2005

Original episode running time:

  • 60 min (36 hs )

Number of episodes:

  • 52

NFL on FOX

NFL on Fox is the brand name of the Fox Broadcasting Company's coverage of the National Football League's games wherein the road team is from the National Football Conference, produced by Fox Sports. Game coverage is usually preceded by the pre-game...

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  • 1994

ESPN Sunday Night Football

ESPN Sunday Night Football was the ESPN cable network's weekly television broadcasts of Sunday evening National Football League (NFL) games. The first ESPN Sunday night broadcast occurred on November 8, 1987, while the last one aired on January 1,...

Air date of first episode:

  • 1987

The NBA on NBC

The NBA on NBC was a weekly presentation of National Basketball Association games on the National Broadcasting Company television network from 1955 to 1962, and again from 1990 to 2002. The NBA on NBC succeeded the NBA on CBS. During NBC's...

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  • Nov 3, 1990

Air date of final episode:

  • Jun 12, 2002

The NBA on ABC

ABC's Coverage of the NBA, known as NBA Sunday on ABC since 2007, is a weekly presentation of National Basketball Association games on ABC television network in the United States, replacing the NBA on NBC. NBA Sunday typically airs on afternoons at...

Air date of first episode:

  • 2002

ESPN2 Friday Night Fights

Friday Night Fights (titled on air as ESPN Friday Night Fights) is a television boxing show, of the American channel ESPN2, that shows a series of live boxing fights on Friday nights, usually at 9 p.m. ET. The program, which debuted in the fall of...

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  • 1988

Wednesday Night Baseball

Wednesday Night Baseball is a live game telecast of Major League Baseball that airs every Wednesday night during the regular season on ESPN and is also available in high definition on ESPNHD. The game starts at 7pm ET, following SportsCenter, and...

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  • Apr 18, 1990

Battle of the Gridiron Stars

The Battle of the Gridiron Stars is a television show that airs on ESPN. It pits teams of National Football League players, one from the American Football Conference ("Americans") and the National Football Conference ("Nationals"), against each...

Air date of first episode:

  • 2005

Air date of final episode:

  • May 17, 2006

Number of seasons:

  • 2

Number of episodes:

  • 12

NFL on NBC

NFL on NBC is the brand given to NBC Sports coverage of National Football League games until 1998, when NBC lost the NFL American Football Conference rights to CBS. NFL coverage returned to NBC on Sunday, August 6, 2006 under the title NBC Sunday...

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  • 2006

Cold Pizza

Cold Pizza was a television sports speak show that aired weekday mornings on ESPN2. The show's format included daily sports news, interviews with sports journalists, athletes, and personalities, and an assortment of other sports and non-sports...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Oct 20, 2003

Air date of final episode:

  • May 4, 2007

Original episode running time:

  • 120 min (72 hs )

Mike and the Mad Dog

Mike and the Mad Dog was an afternoon drive sports radio program based out of WFAN in New York City that featured Mike Francesa and Christopher "Mad Dog" Russo. From 2002 onwards the show was simulcasted on the YES Network. On the radio, the show...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Sep 5, 1989

Air date of final episode:

  • Aug 15, 2008

Original episode running time:

  • 330 min (198 hs )

Sports Tonight

Sports Tonight is a popular sports information program shown on Network Ten in Australia. The program is broadcast on Monday-Thursday at 9.30pm AEDT (on ONE) and at 10.30pm (combined with Ten Late News), Fridays at 12.00am, Saturdays at 5.30pm, and...

Air date of first episode:

  • 1993

All*Star Cup

The All*Star Cup is a celebrity Golf match first held at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport in 2005 that pitted two teams of celebrities against each other in a Ryder Cup-style competition. The first series was aired on Sky One, with the second...

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  • 2005

Air date of final episode:

  • 2006

Under the Moon

Under the Moon was an offbeat, late-night 1990s sports show on the UK's Channel 4. The show was originally hosted by Danny Kelly and comedian Tim Clark. The pair lasted for 10 episodes before Tim left to be replaced by another comedian, Tom Binns....

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  • 1996

Original episode running time:

  • 180 min (108 hs )

Sports Unlimited

Sports Unlimited is a sports program of ABS-CBN in the Philippines. It features different kinds of sports, as well as ordinary and prominent sports figures. It is hosted by Dyan Castillejo and Marc Nelson.

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  • Jun 1997

This Week in Baseball

This Week in Baseball is a weekly television program, originally designed to show highlights of the previous week's Major League Baseball action. TWIB (pronounced phonetically; the acronym is often familiarly used by viewers, and came to be used by...

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  • Apr 1, 1977

Inside the NFL

Inside the NFL is a weekly sports show that focuses on the National Football League. It originally aired on HBO from 1977 through 2008 (following Super Bowl XLII). HBO announced that the show would end its run on its network, and the program was...

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Air date of first episode:

  • 1977

Original episode running time:

  • 60 min (36 hs )

Golf Central

Golf Central is The Golf Channel's news program. It was launched in 1995, in the same year as the network it airs on. A nightly half-hour show, Golf Central features news and highlights from the major golf tours and events of the world, in addition...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Jan 17, 1995

Original episode running time:

  • 22 min (13 hs )

Number of seasons:

  • 12

MLB on CBS

Major League Baseball on CBS is the name of the former TV show that televised Major League Baseball games on the American television network CBS (legally known as the Columbia Broadcasting System from 1928 to 1974). Produced by CBS Sports, there...

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Air date of first episode:

  • 1990

MLB on NBC

Major League Baseball on NBC is the de facto name for a weekly presentation of Major League Baseball games televised on the National Broadcasting Company television network from 1947 to 2000. There have been several variations of the program dating...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Jul 8, 1947

Air date of final episode:

  • Oct 17, 2000

BBC Breakfast

BBC Breakfast is the morning television news programme simulcast on BBC One and the BBC News channel. It is presented live from BBC Television Centre in White City, West London, and contains a mixture of news, sport, weather, business and feature...

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  • Oct 2, 2000

Original episode running time:

  • 195 min (117 hs )

World of Sport

World of Sport is a British television sport anthology programme which ran on ITV between January 2, 1965 to September 28, 1985 in response to competition from BBC's Grandstand. Like Grandstand, the programme ran for several hours every Saturday...

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  • Jan 2, 1965

Air date of final episode:

  • Sep 28, 1985

Original episode running time:

  • 270 min (162 hs )

Number of episodes:

  • 1,050

Wide World of Sports

ABC's Wide World of Sports is a sports anthology series on American television that ran from 1961 to 1998 and was originally hosted by Jim McKay. The title continued to be used for general sports programs regularly until 2006, and still is...

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  • Apr 29, 1961

Air date of final episode:

  • 1998

NASCAR Racers

NASCAR Racers is an animated television series about two rival NASCAR racing teams, Team Fastex and Team Rexcor, competing against each other in the futuristic NASCAR Unlimited Division. 26 half-hour episodes were produced by Saban, and shown on the...

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Air date of first episode:

  • 1999

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Number of episodes:

  • 26

The NBA on CBS

The NBA on CBS was a weekly presentation of National Basketball Association games on CBS Sports. The NBA on CBS ran from the 1973-1974 NBA season (when CBS succeeded ABC Sports as the national broadcaster of the NBA) until the 1989-90 NBA season ...

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Air date of first episode:

  • 1973

Air date of final episode:

  • 1989

Number of seasons:

  • 17

Football Night in America

Football Night in America is the studio show preceding NBC's broadcasts of Sunday night and Wild Card Saturday National Football League (NFL) games starting in the 2006 National Football League season. The show's title closely resembles CBC...

Air date of first episode:

  • 2006

Original episode running time:

  • 75 min (45 hs )

NBC Sunday Night Football

NBC Sunday Night Football is a weekly television broadcast of Sunday evening National Football League games on NBC that began airing on Sunday, August 6, 2006 with the pre-season opening Hall of Fame Game. Al Michaels serves as the play-by-play...

Air date of first episode:

  • 2006

The NHL on NBC

NHL on NBC is a TV show that televises National Hockey League games on NBC and is produced by NBC Sports. NBC previously televised the National Hockey League on three different occasions. NBC was the first United States television network to air a...

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  • Jan 14, 2006

The NHL on ABC

The NHL on ABC is a former TV show that televised National Hockey League games on the American Broadcasting Company and was produced by ABC's corporate sibling (under the Walt Disney Company umbrella) ESPN. In 1979, ABC was contracted to televise...

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  • Feb 6, 2000

Air date of final episode:

  • Jun 7, 2004

Original episode running time:

  • 180 min (108 hs )

1st & Ten

1st & Ten is a situation comedy television program that aired between 1984 and 1991 on the American cable television network Home Box Office. Featuring series regulars Delta Burke and veteran Reid Shelton, it was one of cable's first attempts to...

Air date of first episode:

  • Dec 2, 1984

Air date of final episode:

  • Jan 23, 1991

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Number of seasons:

  • 7

Number of episodes:

  • 80

Fox Football Fone-in

Fox Football Fone-in (previously known as Fox Football Friday) is a football (soccer) telephone call-in program currently shown on Monday evenings on Fox Soccer Channel during the August to May English Premier League season. The show is hosted by...

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  • Aug 14, 2007

Original episode running time:

  • 120 min (72 hs )

The NBA on TNT

The NBA on TNT is Turner Network Television's coverage of the National Basketball Association, produced by Turner Sports. TNT's basketball broadcasts, which include a weekly doubleheader known as TNT NBA Thursday, the Inside the NBA studio show, as...

Air date of first episode:

  • 1988

1st and 10

1st and 10 is a Sports Talk and debate television program spun off from ESPN2's ESPN First Take morning show. It is both a segment during First Take, a two-hour program broadcast on the American cable television network ESPN2, each weekday at 10:00...

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  • Oct 20, 2003

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

The Sports Reporters

The Sports Reporters is a sports talk show that airs on ESPN at 9:30 a.m. ET every Sunday morning (and replayed at 12:30 p.m. ET the same day on ESPNEWS). It is broadcast from New York City, New York at the ESPN Zone. However, before 1999, it was...

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Air date of first episode:

  • 1988

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Sunday Night Baseball

Sunday Night Baseball is the Major League Baseball exclusive game of the week that is televised Sunday nights at 8 p.m. ET (or occasionally at 7 p.m. ET) on ESPN during the regular season. (The official name is ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball Presented...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Apr 15, 1990

NBA on ABC pregame show

NBA Countdown, is a weekly, thirty minute pregame show airing prior to each National Basketball Association (NBA) telecast on the American Broadcasting Company. NBA Countdown typically airs each Sunday at 12:30 p.m, with the exception of some...

Air date of first episode:

  • 2002

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

NBA Shootaround

NBA Shootaround is a pregame show for ESPN's coverage of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Typically, the program airs at 7:30 p.m, prior to ESPN's presentation of NBA Friday, though it does occasionally air prior to ESPN's NBA Wednesday...

Air date of first episode:

  • 2002

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Monday Night Baseball

Monday Night Baseball is a live game telecast of Major League Baseball that airs most Monday nights during the regular season on ESPN and is also available in high definition on ESPNHD. The official name of the game is Monday Night Baseball...

Air date of first episode:

  • Apr 7, 2002
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