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NewSporTalk Intro & New Score Box Design Sept. 19, 1996
About this film
The NewSport Score Box gets a fresh, post-summer, redesign. Premiering in 1994, with a banger of a techno genre theme song, this staple NewSport prime-time talk show featured charismatic host Chet Coppock (d. April 17, 2019) interviewing notable & sometimes legendary sports figures. NewSporTalk (it's a clever double contraction!) managed to make it to its' 500th & a little bit beyond. On the air from Oct. 1, 1993 until July 9, 1997, NewSport became the second (USA) 24 hour national sports news channel, filling the niche that was vacated by Sports News Network (SNN), in 1990. Along with sports news, & a lively talk show, NewSport introduced a prominent innovative feature in 1995, the “NewSport Score Box”, a “ticker” that updated scores & game starts in real-time. For a portion of 4 years, the Rainbow Programming Holdings endeavor had, at its’ peak, up to 10 million cable, DirecTV satellite, & over the air TV viewers enjoying the latest sports news & talk at all hours of the day. That is, until “ESPNews” hit the air Nov. 1, 1996, with their "Bottom Line" sports score ticker.
Directors & creators
Jo Anne London
Subjects
NewSporTalk Chet Coppock NewSport Score Box NewSport Scorebox New Sport New Sport Talk DirecTV sports news channels Prime Sports
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