ESPNEWS will debut two new shows ‘The Beat’ and ‘Highlight Express’ on Monday, August 30 providing an alternative look at sports. The Beat will be broadcast on weekdays at 6 p.m. and Highlight Express will air each night beginning at 11 p.m. ESPNews also returns with most popular shows focusing on college football on Saturday afternoons.
The Beat will be hosted by Bram Weinstein at 6 p.m. and repeated immediately at 6:30 p.m., will provide an entertaining and quirky look at sports and sports stories, as an alternative to SportsCenter, airing on ESPN at that time. It will consist of stories, highlights, interviews and a variety of segments playing off the show’s name – “On the Beat,” “Beats Me,” “Bite Beat,” etc. The name was chosen to invoke both a heartbeat – the pulse of sports – and the notion of reporter’s beat.
Highlight Express will present the day’s best highlights and sound bites in a fast-paced half-hour format at 11 p.m. It will be updated through the end of the day’s action and then reaired until the next afternoon. The show will focus exclusively on the most amazing plays and action, with all the day’s news and scores provided via the BottomLine. The two co-hosts will vary among the ESPNEWS anchor roster.
College Football Overdrive returns for the 2010 season every Saturday, starting Sept. 4 at 3 p.m. Ryan Burr hosts the five-hour show with analyst Jon Ritchie, the seven-year NFL running back who played at both Michigan and Stanford. College Football Overdrive takes viewers live to key moments in college games all over the country, along with highlights, scores and interviews.
In July, ESPNEWS posted its best performance ever for the month. The network averaged 60,000 homes in July, topping its previous best for the month, in 2009. The network is distinguished by its unique combination of youth and affluence amongst its viewers. Based on 2009, the most recent complete year of statistics, ESPNEWS is the nation’s only nationally measured network with at least 40 million homes.
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what the hell is with 8 hghlight of woods, of the leader and 1 of
cabrera? get it right finally, Woods is praticallydone!!!!! The other guys deserve and have earned more coverage.