GameNight

GameNight
Genre Sports talk
Running time 5 hours
Country USA
Home station ESPN Radio (1992-)
Starring John Seibel
Air dates since January 1, 1992
Website GameNight

GameNight is a weekend sports talk radio show hosted by John Seibel. GameNight is regarded as being the flagship series of ESPN Radio, being the network's first longform program and airing every night since the network's 1992 debut until July 21, 2008. On that day the weeknight run was replaced by Football Tonight and SportsCenter Nightly. Now the show airs Saturdays from 8pm ET to 12am and Sunday's from 10pm to 1am ET. The program features in-game updates, guests ranging from superstars to experts, and in-depth analysis on the day's sports stories. It is broadcast from ESPN Headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut.

Guests on GameNight, include Mel Kiper Jr., John Clayton, Chris Mortensen, Ric Bucher, Tim Kurkjian and Eric Byrnes. Jeff Rickard currently is the Fill-In Host.The most notable former host is Chuck Wilson, who was on the program from its debut to July 2005, when his contract expired and was not extended. Other former hosts include sports personalities such as John Seibel, Doug Gottlieb, Keith Olbermann, Tony Bruno and Mike Tirico.

ESPN Radio SportsCenter airs every twenty minutes throughout GameNight. The anchor is Neil Jackson, who also is the update anchor for The V Show with Bob Valvano.

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Present

Personalities

Format

Beginning in late 2006, GameNight was cut back to four hours (and moved to a later timeslot) to make room for The Pulse with Doug Gottlieb, who left GameNight to host his own show.

In 2008, the show was removed from its 10pm ET to 2am ET on weeknights and replaced by Football Tonight and SportsCenter Nightly. The show now airs from 8pm to 1 am on Saturday & Sunday night with John Seibel hosting.

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Past

Personalities

Format

Until late 2006, GameNight was heard every night from 7pm ET and lasted six hours till 1am ET. The program was featured full of segments including: The Starting Lineups at the top of every hour, GameNight Recycles at the top of the last hour, The Last Word at the end of the fifth hour, Studs and Duds at the end of the last hour, Tomorrow's Headlines Tonight at the end of the fifth hour, Sound Off in the middle of the fifth hour and Choice Cuts at the end of the last hour.

Throughout the program the hosts were also joined by contributors from around the nation giving live in-game updates of a variety odd sporting events. They were also joined by players after their games to discuss what happened in their game and what they are thinking.

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