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NoSports Tonight
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Oops, what's a NewSport Score Box without scores? Either all of the sports leagues were on strike that summer night in 1996, or the chyron operator was asleep at the switch! The "NewSport Score Box" was always dependable for timely game results, whatever the sports season, until it wasn't one night. During Chet Coppock's NewSporTalk show, it was the NoSports Score Box. (R.I.P. Chet Coppock, d. April 17, 2019) 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, a…
Directors & creators
Jo Anne London
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NewSport NewSporTalk Chet Coppock NewSport Score Box New Sport Score Box New Sport Talk DirecTV satellite sports news channels
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