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By Josh Krulewitz @jksports

Posted on August 9, 2018

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Hour-long SportsCenter Added at Noon ET; HIGH NOON Moves to 4 p.m.

Beginning September 11, ESPN will showcase a new afternoon programming schedule designed to enhance and evolve the total-day presentation. The changes will include the addition of a live SportsCenter from noon to 1 p.m. ET and HIGH NOON shifting to a 30-minute format at 4 p.m. As a result of the modifications, the last edition of SportsNation (which previously aired at 4 p.m.) will be Friday, Aug. 24.

ESPN host Cari Champion will return to SportsCenter, co-anchoring the noon ET “Coast to Coast” edition from Los Angeles, along with Bristol, Conn.-based anchor David Lloyd. LZ Granderson, who worked on SportsNation with Champion, will continue to co-host a weekday radio program for ESPNLA 710 and contribute to other ESPN shows.

HIGH NOON, presented from ESPN’s New York Seaport District Studios, features commentary from co-hosts Bomani Jones and Pablo Torre.

Specifically during the football season, ESPN’s Monday schedule will include an expanded 90-minute SportsCenter leading into additional NFL-focused studio shows and commentary programs.

“We really like what we have with Bomani, Pablo, and HIGH NOON,” said Norby Williamson, ESPN Executive Vice President, Production and Executive Editor. “This move will provide a better time slot for HIGH NOON, grouping shows of similar genre in a strong, two-hour block.

“Additionally, SportsCenter is healthy and thriving. We are excited to return this successful franchise into the noon window.”

Burke Magnus, ESPN Executive Vice President, Programming and Scheduling, added, “Our research suggests that from a total day perspective, these changes will best serve sports fans and optimize the ESPN schedule.”

Regarding SportsNation, Williamson shared, “SportsNation has been a staple of our afternoon lineup for years and while we felt it was time for a change, the collection of talented, creative people and content associated with that show has been extremely impressive and groundbreaking in many ways.”

While some of the changes will take place in pockets prior to September 11, due to various live event commitments, the full new weekday schedule won’t debut until September 11.

The ESPN weekday schedule (as of September 11) follows:

Time (ET) Show
Noon-1 p.m. SportsCenter: Coast to Coast
1-1:30 p.m. Outside the Lines
1:30-3 p.m. NFL Live
3-4 p.m. The Jump
4-4:30 p.m. HIGH NOON
4:30-5 p.m. Highly Questionable
5-5:30 p.m. Around the Horn
5:30-6 p.m. PTI
6-7 p.m. SportsCenter


During football season only, the typical Monday ESPN schedule will be:

Time (ET) Show
Noon-1:30 p.m. SportsCenter
1:30-2:30 p.m. NFL Primetime
2:30-4 p.m. NFL Live
4-4:30 p.m. HIGH NOON
4:30-5 p.m. Highly Questionable
5-5:30 p.m. Around the Horn
5:30-6 p.m. PTI
6-8 p.m. Monday Night Countdown

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ESPN Canceling ‘SportsNation’ As Part Of Afternoon Lineup Changes

ESPN said the final episode of its long-running afternoon show SportsNation will air August 24, part of a revamp of the sports network’s afternoon lineup that includes adding a live edition of SportsCenter and shifting High Noon to a half-hour format. The full new schedule will debut September 11.


“SportsNation has been a staple of our afternoon lineup for years, and while we felt it was time for a change, the collection of talented, creative people and content associated with that show has been extremely impressive and groundbreaking in many ways,” said Norby Williamson, ESPN’s EVP Production and Executive Editor, in sharing the news today.

SportsNation launched in 2009 with Colin Cowherd and Michelle Beadle co-hosting the show based on ESPN’s polls and fan forum section on ESPN.com (Beadle left for a stint at NBC Sports before returning, and Cohwerd is now at Fox Sports). The current incarnation is hosted by Cari Champion and LZ Granderson; Champion will now co-anchor the new SportsCenter block — titled SportsCenter: Coast To Coast, to originate from Los Angeles — while Granderson will continue to co-host a weekday radio show at ESPNLA 710 and contribute to other ESPN shows.





High Noon, which tapes in New York, is co-hosted by Bomani Jones and Pablo Torre. It will settle into a lineup at 4 PM ET and follow Outside the Lines, NFL Live and The Jump. During the NFL season its lead-ins Monday will shift to a 90-minute SportsCenter followed by NFL Primetime and NFL Live.
 
Hold the front door... they are cancelling SportsNation!!!!


It was finally coming to it own and was pretty much a black show.


ESPN is fucking up.... this is still a move to hide the fact that Get up is a failure.

Just put Sportscenter back on Espn have Greeny be the host...... in the mornings.. Move Golic & Wingo to Espn 2 and call it a day...
 
Why they still have that dumb ass Highly Questionable show is what I'm trying to figure out. I hate that show with a passion.
 
playahaitian said:
ESPN Canceling ‘SportsNation’ As Part Of Afternoon Lineup Changes

ESPN said the final episode of its long-running afternoon show SportsNation will air August 24, part of a revamp of the sports network’s afternoon lineup that includes adding a live edition of SportsCenter and shifting High Noon to a half-hour format. The full new schedule will debut September 11.


“SportsNation has been a staple of our afternoon lineup for years, and while we felt it was time for a change, the collection of talented, creative people and content associated with that show has been extremely impressive and groundbreaking in many ways,” said Norby Williamson, ESPN’s EVP Production and Executive Editor, in sharing the news today.

SportsNation launched in 2009 with Colin Cowherd and Michelle Beadle co-hosting the show based on ESPN’s polls and fan forum section on ESPN.com (Beadle left for a stint at NBC Sports before returning, and Cohwerd is now at Fox Sports). The current incarnation is hosted by Cari Champion and LZ Granderson; Champion will now co-anchor the new SportsCenter block — titled SportsCenter: Coast To Coast, to originate from Los Angeles — while Granderson will continue to co-host a weekday radio show at ESPNLA 710 and contribute to other ESPN shows.





High Noon, which tapes in New York, is co-hosted by Bomani Jones and Pablo Torre. It will settle into a lineup at 4 PM ET and follow Outside the Lines, NFL Live and The Jump. During the NFL season its lead-ins Monday will shift to a 90-minute SportsCenter followed by NFL Primetime and NFL Live.
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fonzerrillii said:
Hold the front door... they are cancelling SportsNation!!!!


It was finally coming to it own and was pretty much a black show.


ESPN is fucking up.... this is still a move to hide the fact that Get up is a failure.

Just put Sportscenter back on Espn have Greeny be the host...... in the mornings.. Move Golic & Wingo to Espn 2 and call it a day...
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We knew once they made that show all black it was doomed
 
ESPN brings back noon SportsCenter, cancels SportsNation, moves High Noon to 4 p.m. and cuts it in half
Noon SportsCenter is back, and High Noon is now shorter and moved to 4 p.m. Eastern.
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a much more standard edition of the franchise, and keep talkingabout how well it’s doing. And now, they’ve made big shifts to their afternoon lineup as of September 11, cancelling SportsNation, moving High Noon to 4 p.m. (and shortening it to half an hour), and bringing back an hour-long “coast to coast”edition of SportsCenter at noon Eastern (which will be 90 minutes long on Mondays during football season, bumping Outside The Lines off the air), hosted by David Lloyd (in Bristol) and Cari Champion (in Los Angeles).

Lloyd and Champion (seen above together in 2016) previously hosted past versions of the noon SportsCenter, including when it moved to the “coast to coast” format in 2016, and SportsCenter kept airing from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eastern through the end of last year. But at last May’s upfronts, ESPN talked about how 2018 would see them going away from daytime SportsCenter, with plans to incorporate news and highlights into what would become Get Up but then have no SportsCenter until SC6, with Michael Smith and Jemele Hill. Now, they’ve reversed course on that.


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Champion was most recently on SportsNation, where she went earlier this year following Michelle Beadle’s departure from that show. Now, with SportsNation cancelled (in the wake of Marcellus Wiley’s departure for Fox), she’s back to SportsCenter, while fellow co-host LZ Granderson will continue hosting his ESPN LA radio show and contributing to other ESPN shows. Meanwhile, Bomani Jones and Pablo Torre have their High Noon show moved later (but still somehow keeping its name, although they appear to have at least stopped calling it High Noon (9 am Pacific) in releases) and shortened to half an hour. Here’s what the daytime lineup on ESPN’s main channel will now look like this fall (all times Eastern):

  • 7-10 a.m. Get Up
  • 10 a.m. – noon: First Take
  • Noon-1 p.m. SportsCenter: Coast to Coast (lengthened to 1:30 p.m. on Mondays)
  • 1-1:30 p.m. Outside the Lines (except Mondays)
  • 1:30-3 p.m. NFL Live
  • 3-4 p.m. The Jump
  • 4-4:30 p.m. High Noon
  • 4:30-5 p.m. Highly Questionable
  • 5-5:30 p.m. Around the Horn
  • 5:30-6 p.m. PTI
  • 6-7 p.m. SportsCenter
Here’s more from ESPN’s release on the changes:

“We really like what we have with Bomani, Pablo, and HIGH NOON,” said Norby Williamson, ESPN Executive Vice President, Production and Executive Editor. “This move will provide a better time slot for HIGH NOON, grouping shows of similar genre in a strong, two-hour block.

“Additionally, SportsCenter is healthy and thriving. We are excited to return this successful franchise into the noon window.”

Burke Magnus, ESPN Executive Vice President, Programming and Scheduling, added, “Our research suggests that from a total day perspective, these changes will best serve sports fans and optimize the ESPN schedule.”

It seems highly significant that Williamson is quoted there, as he’s been the face of this effort to deemphasize alternative personality-driven SportsCenter approaches (at least on the main network; SportsCenteron Snapchat remains distinct) and bring back the 1990s approach of the brand being more important than the personalities. Last September, an ESPN management shuffle saw Williamson given control of SportsCenter, which had previously been under Rob King. November’s layoffs hit numerous people involved with the SportsCenter franchise, and Williamson has since been very public about ending SC6 and shifting SportsCenter back to his perception of what it used to be in the 1990s (when he was heavily involved in producing it).

Here’s what he told AA’s Alex Putterman in March:

“We have to make it a little more relevant,” Williamson told me in his Bristol office. “It was an unbelievable necessity, then things evolved. Now we need to try to restore a little bit the need of it, the relevance.”

…“When we went with the Six we didn’t really do our due diligence there,” Williamson said. “I think it got away from us a bit with Michael and Jemele, Michael and Jemele, Michael and Jemele.”

So this seems very much like ESPN further embracing Williamson’s vision of a news-and-highlight-focused, not personality-focused SportsCenter, which he told Putterman was about “trying to create a net here that’s age 12 to 92…that’s the offering of SportsCenter.” In fact, The Athletic’s Richard Deitsch included “Norby consolidates more power” in his tweet summarizing the changes. The return of a noon SportsCenter is an interesting move, especially how much criticism ESPN was taking in recent years (particularly from then-FS1 head Jamie Horowitz) for SportsCenter‘s declining ratings.

While ESPN execs fired back at Horowitz publicly, their changes to SportsCenter seemed to address some of those criticisms of the challenges of doing a news-and-highlights show these days, where both of those things are easily available through other sources; personality-driven SportsCenter seemed to present a reason to watch for those who already have the news, and that was perhaps especially the case for slots like noon and 6 p.m. Eastern where there weren’t fresh highlights. Now, there seems to be a renewed emphasis on just the news and highlights.



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It’s also interesting to see this happening shortly after ESPN took a ton of criticism (some of it deserved, some not so much) for taking almost four hours to address Brett McMurphy’s initial report that Courtney Smith brought allegations of domestic abuse from her then-husband Zach to Shelley Meyer, wife of Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer. A midday SportsCenter would have been a logical place to discuss a story like that. Of course, ESPN programming moves are generally planned well in advance and are not usually about one specific story, and there were shows that could have addressed a story like that (in particular, Outside The Lines and perhaps High Noon), but chose not to.


That delay was also on the digital side (which is not affected by the programming schedule), so it’s not like this was held just because there wasn’t a SportsCenter. Once ESPN did decide to address the story, they were able to discuss it on some of their radio shows with TV simulcasts. Again, it’s highly unlikely this move had anything to do with the Meyer story directly. But it is notable that shortly after one of the few big mid-day stories in a while, ESPN now will have an obvious TV platform to handle a breaking mid-day story. Whether there will actually be enough breaking mid-day stories of any consequence to justify that is another matter.

As per the other shows here, it feels unfortunate that only two months after its June launch (and yet, years after the first reports about it in October 2016 and the official announcement of it in May 2017), High Noon is being cut in half and moved to a time where its name no longer fits. And if ESPN execs like Williamson “really like what they have” in High Noon, they have an interesting way of showing that. Beyond that, the cancellation of SportsNation does maybe make more sense after Wiley’s exit, and maybe that show wasn’t the best fit for ESPN at this point in time, but it is interesting that they’re replacing it with a pretty standard SportsCenter. We’ll see how that works out for them.

http://awfulannouncing.com/espn/esp...ter-cancels-sportsnation-moves-high-noon.html
 
I always questioned whether High Noon could work as an hour show. But now I’ve seen the format, and Pablo and Bo done got into a nice groove. That hour seems to fly by for me.

I’m not really feeling the move to cut it by 30 but if that time slot is intent on growing the audience then ok. Might be a case of them having a hard time filling the 60 with enough content. Although that shouldn’t be a problem in the fall with NFL, NBA, and MLB playoffs.

I don’t know. This could go either way. I’m hoping it’s a move for the positive.
 
mexico said:
I always questioned whether High Noon could work as an hour show. But now I’ve seen the format, and Pablo and Bo done got into a nice groove. That hour seems to fly by for me.

I’m not really feeling the move to cut it by 30 but if that time slot is intent on growing the audience then ok. Might be a case of them having a hard time filling the 60 with enough content. Although that shouldn’t be a problem in the fall with NFL, NBA, and MLB playoffs.

I don’t know. This could go either way. I’m hoping it’s a move for the positive.
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agree

100%
 
@mexico

its HOUR LONG format was the whole KEY to its uniqueness and success

It gave them the time to give much more DETAILED intelligent heartfelt and FAIR commentary on a VARIETY of topics in and OUT of sports.

Just shorten First take to an hour instead.

and do NOT simulcast the SAS radio show

Problem solved.
 
fonzerrillii said:
Get up has gotsta go...

I don’t even attempt to watch it now that Profootball Talk is back on. So it’s Golic and Wingo and PFt for me.

Get up really doesn’t serve a purpose.
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sadly...I have to agree.

sidebar...

can you recommend a good reliable affordable unrestricted downloader?

I am currently using Real Debrid but it has been giving me issues.
 
playahaitian said:
@mexico

its HOUR LONG format was the whole KEY to its uniqueness and success

It gave them the time to give much more DETAILED intelligent heartfelt and FAIR commentary on a VARIETY of topics in and OUT of sports.

Just shorten First take to an hour instead.

and do NOT simulcast the SAS radio show

Problem solved.
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No doubt. I totally agree now that I've seen it. The reason I was skeptical on the outset is an hour is a lot of time to fill for a daily show that features essentially two guys talking back and forth with no features, no interviews or any other segments. It's tough for some of these half hour shows to do. It's just a tough deal to pull off 5 days a week and find the daily content to keep it interesting, but Bo and Pablo have such an easy rapport and it's flat out hilarious at times, that I thought they pulled it off seamlessly.

Too bad the bosses didn't agree. You're right -- they can keep SAS. I guess he wants to be simulcast because Will Cain gets simulcast on one of those other ESPN channels (which is odd). And First Take, I don't know what's going on with them. I don't even watch anymore. Looks like they're just gonna do any and everything to keep Sportscenter going. That shit don't and never has needed an hour and a half.
 
They are just trying to shake things up for the sake of doing things. High Noon was pretty good as an hour but who in the hell watches TV at Noon anyway... it was never going to do big numbers in that time slot besides with the lunch hour crew like myself.
 
Philli said:
They are just trying to shake things up for the sake of doing things. High Noon was pretty good as an hour but who in the hell watches TV at Noon anyway... it was never going to do big numbers in that time slot besides with the lunch hour crew like myself.
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disagree

good lunch time break room show

and it doesn't matter with podcast ESPN app and dvr anyway.
 
playahaitian said:
disagree

good lunch time break room show

and it doesn't matter with podcast ESPN app and dvr anyway.
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What are you disagreeing with? No shows do big numbers at noon that is a reason they are moving it.

Podcasts don't count for viewership and very few people are DVRing ESPN.
 
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